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Building a Dam to Save a Dam
Okay, I can see why this might take two to three years. We’re talking big holes in the ground through which to pour concrete.
The Popularity of Flounder in Massachusetts
Stuff is a corporate train wreck and nothing Sinead Boucher and her team of executives do or say gives me any confidence whatsoever.
When the Columnist Swears for Clicks
If the product is good, you don’t need sweary opinion writers. The swearing is just reason 1,001 not to read Stuff – except to be impressed by just how far it can fall.
Go and See Auschwitz. Now. (Auckland)
We need to understand what we are capable of. The unbelievably monstrous evil. And the courage. And the humanity that somehow survived inside it. Just go. You will not regret it.
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The word for today is… doldrums (plural noun) - 1: a spell of listlessness or despondency 2 often Doldrums oceanography : a part of the ocean near the equator abounding in calms (see calm entry 1 sense 1b), squalls, and light shifting winds 3: a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or
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And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.