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John Rice
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Under the volcano
What is 'IT?' What's up with @slate.com? Headlines: "It Was the Photo That Changed the Course of History." "It's a Beautiful Part of Eating." "It's Suddenly the Greatest Boogeyman for Women..." "It Kills Thousands of People Every Year.!" "It Might be the Most Popular TV Show in the World." etc
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Am I alone, or are the swings in the S&P 500 today absurdly sharp and sudden?
April 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Kevin Hassett shooting for Dow 36,000 yet again?
April 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The new (and ridiculously long) 500 Songs episode is now (finally!) up! What connects The Captain and Tennille and Pink Floyd? What connects Mike Love, Little Richard, and Alan Lomax? And what do any of those things have to do with "Shortenin' Bread"? You might find out in this...
Song 177: “Never Learn Not to Love” by the Beach Boys, Part 4: “Sometimes I Have A Great Notion”
For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the third and final (and very, very long) part of a multi…
500songs.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...
Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries
A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
That proposed tourism blacklist... How does that work with hosting a World Cup, the Olympics. Can Venezuelans still okay in MLB? MLS?
March 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The champions of Free Speech are now forcing scientists to retract submitted publications until they can be checked for the appearance of “forbidden terms.”
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Eggs in Mexico -:$2 a dozen. That's at Walmart. For organic farmers market eggs it's $3.
February 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...
Opinion | Migration Is Remaking Our World, and We Don’t Understand It at All (Gift Article)
Migration is central to our politics and our world, but nobody really understands it.
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Now #Facebook wants free speech. Two months ago they blocked me for 10 years for no reason with no reasonable recourse. Look elsewhere for a business partner.
danperry.substack.com/p/facebook-i...
Facebook is in chaos
Now they want free speech. Two months ago they blocked me for 10 years for no reason with no reasonable recourse. Look elsewhere for a business partner.
danperry.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM