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https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201407/anti-intellectualism-and-the-dumbing-down-america A good but depressing article I just saw. Even PBS is affected by this sad state of affairs, and has been for years. One of the things that frustrates me is that so many people believe...

I know it's already June 19th where y'all are, but it's still the 18th here and I'm remembering a famous event that took place 201 years ago today (June 18). Please, somebody, chime in here with the event and who the Iron Duke is. (Nobody seemed to care that it's Paul McCartney's birthday...

Happy Birthday, Paul! And congratulations to the Iron Duke. :)

Welcome, Lynda! (People who say $$ is a must for retirement have never tried living on just $. :) Social Security isn't great wealth, but you can keep going on it. You certainly don't need stocks and bonds and dividends.)

They just paraded around the Dixon Oval at the Devon Horse Show. They have really cool costumes and I love their music. I think they used to hold a parade that was shown on TV at Thanksgiving or New Year's? But who and what are they? Any Pennsylvanians here care to teach the rest of us?

I'm watching an opening jumping class right now. They just introduced two "Irishmen." Both men live in the US, one in Pennsylvania, the other not far away. They have lived in the US for years and years. As the first one was on course, the announcer said that he'd competed for Ireland in...

There's an ad on TV currently about a mother in some part of the world where there's a catastrophe. I think she's a refugee. The ad says something like "Imagine that all of a sudden with no warning you lose your home." I haven't the whole ad, but the basic message is, people can lose a lot all...