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SILENCE IS COLLABORATION (must read for course credit) https://lithub.com/silence-is-collaboration-academics-must-speak-out-against-fascism/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Lit%20Hub%20Daily:%20April%202%2C%202025&utm_term=lithub_master_list 55555555555555555555555555555555555555555 word of the jour: fissiparous [ fi- sip -er- uh s ] Phonetic (Standard) IPA adjective reproducing by fission. 7777777777777777777777777777777777777777 from The Economist , last sentence in article titled:  Could Europe fight back? "For that reason, among others, getting European leaders, a fissiparous bunch at the best of times, to agree on a concerted response to American bullying would be a feat.  But if they resolved to fight back, they have plenty of ways to do so." uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu note the disney studio lunchtime exit parade...priceless !!! Los Angeles of old  video du jour +++++++++++++++   we heard he's a good writer.... --------------...

  God Bless America!  Land of Conspicuous Consumption and Status Seeking Extraordinaire our intrepid social reporter, Giralda Rivera, while on assignment spotted these  this week a $300,000 vehicle which got you to your lunch with your girlfriend in Newton Centre to look at swatches for the new living room reno...  critical decisions that need to be made right away ****** a $92,025 brand new Bimmer X5,  plus.......... .....Elon, Holy Cross & Wash and Lee, where list price tuition, room and board for progeny come to a nice round $210,000 per annum   add another $23,000 per child allowance to cover term paper purchases,  alcohol, drugs, birth control, and defense attorneys and about that whale stickah on the right bottom?  (Whale) Child Safety Seat Occupant Identification Program so, there are more kids on the way? or their kids are geniuses already at 2 years?  (certainly all of 'em are well above average) why not a bigger BMW X7?...

all of us at ELDER HOSTILE hope to see you this April 5th in Boston be there!  Hands Off Massachusetts! Rally -------------------------------------------------- OBITUARIES and DEATH section Jesus of Nazareth, Whose Messianic Message Captivated Thousands, Dies at About 33   am Roberts, an obituary writer for  The New York Times,  imagines how, given the facts available then, his predecessors might have reported the aftermath of an execution in the Middle East one Friday two millennia ago. By Sam Roberts Jesus of Nazareth, a Galilean carpenter turned itinerant minister whose appeals to piety and whose repute as a healer had galvanized a growing contingent of believers, died on Friday after being crucified that morning just outside Jerusalem, only days after his followers had welcomed him triumphantly to the city as “the anointed one” and “the Son of David.” He was about 33. For a man who had lived the first three decades of his life in virtual obscurity, he attracted a...