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It’s almost summer; time to pack up and go on vacation, where you can let go of the worries of everyday life and have carefree thoughts and feelings, such as the feeling that you probably forgot something at home.
France is undergoing riots unlike any seen in years. Ostensibly, the cause is a demand for better classroom conditions and wages.
It’s almost summer: time to pack up and go on vacation, where you can let go of the worries of everyday life and have carefree thoughts and feelings, such as the feeling that you probably forgot something at home.
Most of the media, like The New York Times and BBC, described the terrorist attack on the pilot on the Flydubai flight to Israel as an “altercation” between the two pilots. Some altercation. It was an attack by the Omani copilot Hamam Al-Hammani on the Indian captain Smit Machchhar with a crash axe found in the cockpit.
We now return to the fertile topic of “expressions that annoy me,” which is growing ever bigger the older I get.
And I’m not just talking about expressions that people say specifically to annoy you, such as, “You’re old!” My bother frequently says this, just because I’m older than he is. And I have to constantly be reminded, because I’m old. He says it all the time, whenever he can work it into a conversation, because younger people like repetition. And this isn’t going away, because I’m always going to be older than him, as far as I can tell. But if I would’ve known he’d be like this, then I would have said, when he was younger, “You’re young!”
Benjamin Netanyahu referred to Mayor Mamdani as “anti-Semitic” in a blistering criticism of the mayor during his speech to the United Nations. No doubt a lot of his sentiments were due to Mamdani’s aim of arresting Netanyahu when he landed in New York, but the charge remains nonetheless.
