Old-school news, just in time
Maria Ponomarenko has my respect, my admiration and full attention. Last March the Russian Air Force bombed a Ukrainian theatre in the town of Mariupol, with 1,200 civilians inside. The Russian defense ministry denied the attack. Ponomarenko, a 44-year-old Russian journalist, told the truth about it in a social media post. This is …
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by Kevin Burton Today, some updates, passing asides and leftovers from previous posts. When I cook these up together, I call them quibbles and bits. Come and get it!: From my two posts about favorite duets: I can not overstate how much I love much of the work of Paul McCartney. …
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by Kevin Burton A blind BBC reporter, retrieved his cell phone from a mugger and restrained the assailant until help arrived, multiple sources reported in late December. “Wrong blind person, wrong day,” said Sean Dilley, a blind news reporter and project lead for the BBC’s Reframing Disability program. Dilley was taking a …
by Kevin Burton My career as an English as a Second Language teacher came to an abrupt early end one night under the streetlights outside a small taco shop in Puebla. To tell you how and why that happened, I first turn to BBC writer Nicole Chang, who recently wrote about what speaking …
by Kevin Burton Yes, of course you’re going to do your due diligence, you’ll do what you can. But is this a lost cause already? I’m talking about the safe keeping of your personal data, personal identifying information. The intimate details of your life. How much of that information do you truly …
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by Kevin Burton Kellogg’s and other makers of sugary breakfast cereals will be restricted in how they market those products in the United Kingdom starting this October, according to the BBC. The Royal Courts of Justice last week ruled in favor of the government in a lawsuit filed by Kellogg’s. The American food giant had …
by Kevin Burton Apparently the purring our cats do isn’t all good vibrations. These are cats after all, I should have known. It just had to be more complicated than we thought. “We think we know what a cat’s purr means,” writes Stephen Dowling of the BBC. “It is arguably the most recognizable sign …
by Kevin Burton You say the YMCA dance made you sick in the 70s? The Bump? That Saturday Night Fever pointing dance? But did anybody ever die from it? From reporter Rosalind Jana on the BBC, comes the story of a dance craze that was truly crazy. In Strasbourg, France, in …
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by Kevin Burton Certain things sound great, but once you examine them are really not. One such concept is breakfast in bed. People talk about breakfast in bed as a mother’s day or birthday kind of special thing you do for someone. So I’m thinking about this and it hits me, who really …
by Kevin Burton One last petulant blast. That’s all this is, I fear. BBC business reporter Suzanne Bearne did a story on the return of the “dumbphone.” I hadn’t heard that anything not a smartphone is considered a dumbphone, but it doesn’t surprise me. Neither am I surprised that flip phones like …
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