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A Tale of Two Platners

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A Tale of Two Platners

Ice melting at the poles turns into water. Earth’s spin causes centrifugal force, sending that water towards the equator. Adding mass to that region slows the rotation of the Earth. That’s pretty straightforward. It’s basic physics. Ice Capades skaters have been demonstrating that effect for years: arms in, faster spin. Scientists recently figured out how to compare current trends with far earlier times. A newly-published paper says Earth is now slowing at an “unprecedented” rate—greater than at any time in 3.6 million years. Good luck, though, convincing your MAGA uncle that days are getting longer because of climate change. Man-made greenhouse gas emissions have the power to put the brakes on an object whose mass is so great that it takes 27 zeroes to write it down, but gerrymandered ignorance renders that knowledge irrelevant. Why, it’s almost disheartening to think about. Fortunately there are flickering bright spots on the horizon. Just over the river, in fact. These are, indeed, some terrible times, but not so…

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Tiananmen Mythology

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by Richard M. Balzano After another anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen Square “massacre”—an event enshrined in the Western imagination as the defining symbol of Chinese authoritarianism—it is worth revisiting how the story was originally reported, amplified, mythologized, and then quietly redacted and corrected by many of the same Western journalists who helped turn it into political scripture. The Tiananmen story entered American political mythology in June 1989 as media coverage saturated audiences with claims that thousands of peaceful Chinese protesters had been massacred by tanks and machine-gun fire inside Tiananmen Square. Deathcounts snowballed from 2,600 to 8,000 and beyond, and NBC’s Tim Russert claimed “tens of thousands” died. The narrative calcified with such emotion that it became less a disputed historical event than sacred…

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2016—Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy [R-Calif.] tells colleagues, “I think there’s two people Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” 2006—The Supreme Court rules that evidence seized by cops breaking “no knock” rules…

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Sun, June 14

2016—Lane Graves, 2, is killed by an alligator at Disney World. Disney World responds by installing signs warning that alligators are present. 2004—Timothy Clam, 25, opens the door of a…

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Sat, June 13

2005—Congress apologizes for having failed to pass 200 anti-lynching bills between 1882 and 1968. 1999—In Kosovo, British Lieut. Gen. Mike Jackson refuses NATO Commander Wesley Clark’s orders to take the…

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Fri, June 12

2000—The Energy Department admits that two hard drives holding top-secret data on nuclear weapons have been missing for over a month. 1991—White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu takes…

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Volume 270, No. 20

For those of us used to living and working in the home of the First in the Nation™ Presidential Primary Election,® it’s a little disorienting: the whole country is suddenly focused on a single election, and it’s over on the other side of the river.

What could have caused Maine Democrats to nominate an ogre for Senate? Maybe they listened to what he was saying, rather than what people were saying about him.

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“Thanks again, as always, for making the now really bad news somewhat easier to tolerate. The truth, which is now seldom spoken, and never spoken by our nation’s “Liar in Chief,” just keeps getting worse and worse. I am thankful for our still (for now, anyway) free press and late night television comedians’ rants posted on Youtube about the state of our country.”

— E.S., Dover, N.H.

Admiral Fowle’s Piscataqua River Tidal Guide
(Not for Navigational Purposes)

Portsmouth, arguably the first town in this country not founded by religious extremists, is bounded on the north and east by the Piscataqua River, the second, third, or fourth fastest-flowing navigable river in the country…read more.