History repeats......well, continues. A prominent figure in the Vietnam anti-war movement in Boston, (whose boss at WBCN was my unwelcome roomie for a time) trained in Cuba. Went on to a career at CBS. His bio on Wiki of course does not mention this.
“Paper or plastic”? I always answer “plastic”. I get a lot of secondary use out of the plastic ones. Paper ones not so much. They get soggy when wet, for one thing.
I would be astonished if a white guy was retarded enough to argue with anyone — of any race or ethnicity — over basketball.
You haven't had the pleasure of having your new neighbor erect a hoop 25 feet from your bedroom window, and then bang the ball around from 9 to midnight as I once did. I eventually sold the house and left. Yeah, he was black. First one in the neighborhood.
Communist organizations are sparking unrest and fueling tension by distributing pamphlets en masse during pro-Palestinian rallies in New York.
“Members of RIY and the Internationalist Clubs at the City University of New York (CUNY) are participating in the Gaza solidarity encampment at City College. As early as last October and repeatedly since then, the Internationalist Clubs have taken the lead in protesting McCarthyite repression against defenders of the Palestinian people at Hunter College and elsewhere in CUNY"
One of FDR’s greatest failures was believing that his ingratiating manner would charm Stalin at Tehran and again at Yalta. That got us Soviet domination of all of eastern Europe, and 40 years of Cold War. Which is arguably still going on.
And we believe that Russians think like we do. They don’t and they won’t. Russia (and China) never had the Christian Reformation and the flowering of classical liberalism that occurred in the West. We’re negotiating with a 13th century society, and our alleged “statesmen” need to be educated about that fact.