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Retired lawyer. US expat in Ticino, Switzerland. Baseball, opera, ballet. Logic, science, not “belief”. Compassionate libertarian, feminist from my mom. Read Italian, not German.

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Yeah, that was a World Series team for sure!

14.02.2026 14:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@metsmerized.bsky.social Can anyone clarify the whole SNY firing of John DeMarsico situation? He says “creative differences”. Widespread rumors say it was a serious HR rule breach.

24.01.2026 12:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In today’s news: “A US naval task force centered on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, with its warships and at least one submarine armed with cruise missiles, is expected to arrive in the Middle East soon.” Led by Captain Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton?

24.01.2026 12:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wonderful post! But I have to tell you,when I saw the headline before reading the post (and without looking at the photo), I thought it would be a post about Kristi Noem running DHS.

04.10.2025 11:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have never seen CB call a game so brilliantly.

30.08.2025 03:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a mapcap local Phoenix show named Wallace and Ladmo. To me, the important portrayal of a city (which, among other films and TV shows, led me, a small town boy, to live most of my life in New York City) was on Naked City, which I started watching at age 8. 8 million stories - including me! 2/2

30.07.2025 15:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah, Sesame Street. I was too old for that. My kiddie shows were Romper Room (I loved Miss Sherri - her firing for going to Sweden to abort a thalidomide fetus when I was 11, a few years after I had aged out of Romper Room, made me an abortion rights supporter for life) and 1/2

30.07.2025 14:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status Family of Cynthia Olivera reconsiders support for president after Ice detained her at green card interview

Why do I have no sympathy for this couple? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

06.07.2025 12:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The whole world would collapse without electricity!

18.06.2025 19:19 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

That's going to be a big problem, since today's students have been taught to write only by keyboarding!

17.06.2025 18:29 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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New 5% excise tax proposed for remittance transfers

For those who want the details of the remittance tax: taxnews.ey.com/news/2025-11...

06.06.2025 16:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This doesn't apply to remittances by US citizens IF they use a remittance company (like a bank) that enters into an arrangement with the government requiring that the remitter prove their US citizenship. But it's the first step to barring sending assets outside the US. Pull your funds out now! 2/2

06.06.2025 16:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Warned everyone about authoritative regimes blocking people from drawing their money out of the country. The Republican House has taken the first step in their budget reconciliation bill - imposing a 3.5% excise tax on remittances to people outside the US. 1/2

06.06.2025 16:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Of course not. But if you can’t do anything about it, dwelling on it to the point of thinking of dying is a win for the evildoers.

29.05.2025 18:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Whoa, Craig, that‘s depression territory! Yes, the ongoing 2025 Project is horrendous. But when that idea creeps into your brain, say the chant: “If I can’t do anything about it, and it’s not affecting me our my loved ones, I have to accept it.” And hope the 2025ers die horrible deaths.

29.05.2025 14:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Video his behavior with good sound. Post it to every social media you have access to, including the local doorcam group. With the following: “Coach [his real name] with his team at last night’s [name of league, name of town] softball game for 5- and 6-year-olds”. Let social media handle the rest.

10.05.2025 17:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

True, if you were asking for an answer from personal experience

06.04.2025 22:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If people can retire solely on social security, people can retire solely on a well-managed 401(k) - assuming max contributions over many years.

06.04.2025 18:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

There are plenty of people “out there” who have retired on only social security and a few hundred dollars in a bank savings account. Many of them also rely on what we used to call “welfare” and, if they are well enough, part-time minimum wage jobs.

05.04.2025 13:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And it’s not just capital construction. Modern manufacturing requires high-skilled workers. Finding such workers in the US is going to be tough, given experience and education deficits.

04.04.2025 22:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kind of like midwesterners and southerners who are experts on California Santa Ana firestorms.

16.03.2025 17:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They haven’t won a lot of elections since 2020, and that was probably a Covid fluke. I don’t want to go back to the Bill Clinton days, but I’d like to win elections for a change, and that requires changing the Dems’ image.

02.03.2025 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I mean, there are other ways of saying it, like "I really look forward to your thoughts", but saying it, regardless of how it is said, is always pretty obnoxious.

26.02.2025 22:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Craig, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, two cups of good, hot black coffee, or the measles.

24.02.2025 16:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I owe money, so wait until April 15. With the DOGE bros in place, maybe I won't have to!

24.02.2025 16:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How about "We Shall Overcome"?

24.02.2025 16:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Curse of the DeGrominator.

24.02.2025 16:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally) [Official Audio]
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally) [Official Audio] YouTube video by Gilbert O'Sullivan

Craig, re: the end song of today’s newsletter. This one would be better - has that element of bleakness that is emblematic of these times: youtu.be/gU3ubk8u7dA?...

24.02.2025 11:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You haven't practiced in a law firm for a LONG time, have you, Craig?

24.02.2025 00:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I just went to Google Maps, and the Gulf of Mexico is now labelled
"Gulf of Mexico
(Gulf of America)".
Are other people seeing that? I am in Switzerland, but nothing changed when I used a VPN that indicates that I am in New York.
Did Google step back from their change?

14.02.2025 19:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0