ELDER HOSTILE

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@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ as seen at boston harbour today andy borowitz: No interest in Ukraine’s rare earth metals but would love it if they’d let us have their president Today's Style Section:  Trump Gets a New Haircut ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELDER HOSTILE PAROLA DEL GIORNO (word of the day) : Noun [ edit ] self - destruction  ( usually  uncountable ,  plural   self-destructions ) The act of something  destroying  itself.  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------  gumsuckers (or, gum-suckers) march by percy grainger music review “Gum-Suckers” is a somewhat humorous nickname for Australians from the state of Victoria. During the very warm summers, these people would refresh themselves by sucking on the blades from the Eucalyptus trees native to that region. Pianist and writer Joseph Robert Smith wrote the following concerning Grainger and ...

  RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore  THE ONION Published: February 27, 2025 WASHINGTON—Addressing the ongoing outbreak in Texas that has infected at least 124 state residents and killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed Thursday to make measles deaths so common that they wouldn’t be upsetting anymore. “When President Trump appointed me, I pledged to desensitize Americans to preventable death by making it such a normal, everyday occurrence that people would just shrug it off,” said Kennedy, who added that the current epidemic, which is considered Texas’ largest in 30 years, was the first step to one day fully numbing citizens to the experience of watching each other die painful measles-related deaths. “We’ve been following this outbreak since it began in late January, and we’re proud to announce that Americans across the country are already jaded enough to throw up their hands and dismiss ...

  ********************************************************* Book Club Reviews and recommendations from critic Ron Charles.   By  Ron Charles Chronicle Books; President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on March 4. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) In “The Gulag Archipelago,” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn describes the bizarre spectacle of party members clapping in “tribute to Comrade Stalin.”  The applause carried on for seven minutes, nine minutes,  eleven minutes . “Palms were getting sore and raised arms were already aching. And the older people were panting from exhaustion. It was becoming insufferably silly,” Solzhenitsyn writes. “However, who would dare be the  first  to stop?” Decades later, in “Koba the Dread,” Martin Amis speculated that the unhinged applause for Stalin must have sounded like “the music of psychosis.” Tuesday night, as Putin acolyte Donald Trump spoke for an hour and 40 minutes, members of the legislative branch he’s ma...