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LILLIAN CROOK: WildDakotaWoman — San Juan, Part Quatro
Buy local food and art and such. Wear sunscreen.
JIM FUGLIE: View From The Prairie — Halfway Through A Winter Odyssey
For most of the past 10 days, there was at least 100 degrees difference in the temperature where I was eating, sleeping and playing and the temperature in my backyard in Bismarck. The colors are different, too. White where I came from, green where I am now. That’s the reason Lillian and I came to the Caribbean in the dead …
LILLIAN CROOK: WildDakotaWoman — San Juan, Part Tres
Take a taxi or Uber or walk is my advice. Chat respectfully with the locals, etc. Thank the people who preserve the customs and language and places and critters. Obey the rules and laws. Don’t be rude.
RON SCHALOW: The Old Men And The Sea
Saltwater. So abundant. For decades, child global cartographers have gone bonkers when the blue crayon became a nub before ever even getting to the Tropic of Capricorn. Some wannabes outside the map colorization community have suggested that we might be dealing with multicolored gulfs, epicontinental seas and fjords. Purists consider this train of thought to be pure madness. The oceans …
TOM DAVIES: The Verdict — Do We Really Care?
Brock Long, Trump’s FEMA administrator, wins first place as the most cold-blooded person this week. While emergency supplies have still not been distributed to the citizens of Puerto Rico, and while the people plead for food and clean water; die for lack of medical care because of lack of energy; and basically suffer through the aftermath of the hurricane — …
TOM DAVIES: The Verdict — Trump Knows More Than All The Generals!
Our blowhard-in-chief has outdone himself in his cold-blooded, uncaring and false statements relating to Puerto Rico. If you remember World War II, then you remember Gen. George Patton and his tank corps rambling across Europe to show the Nazis the power of right. You’ll also probably remember the Army Corps of Engineers who paved the way for his tanks and …