I semi-cringed when I heard the film was action mixed with science-fiction and superhero multiverses, none of which are my genre of choice. The film goes beyond that with a sensory overload, a warped, onslaught of colorful wackiness that includes hot dog fingers, butt plugs, and a drag ...
aFor example, to help someone who was robbed, calling the police is a much wiser way than chasing the robbers alone 例如,帮助被抢夺的人,告诉警察比追逐单独强盗是一个更加明智的方式[translate] an espionage ring known as the Fifth Column needs to be stopped, and the government decides to place...
Canadian journalist Donna Laframboise. Former National Post & Toronto Star columnist, past vice president of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
Watching the cow nibbling on the grassy berm, he thinks with increasing certainty of Apogee Meats—one of the few packers left in the small city of Pentauk, Virginia, a good three miles away. Meaning: she’s crossed the Parkway.Have to give the critter some credit for that. The cow sna...
never flawless. A misused word here, an absent piece of punctuation there…it’s enough to make you…I don’t know…take someone into yourowncreepy secret basement and tattoo the quality standards onto their forehead. Not that I’ve ever done such a thing, of course, however much I’ve...
By contrast, farming often requires devastation of someone’s home and almost always devastation of the environment. The great dust bowl, the extinction of eastern wolves, the loss of the ivory-billed woodpecker: all these are directly connected to growing more food than humans need today. Mean...
For far too long now, whenever someone shares my“graphics matter” series of posts, someone pipes up with a response that can be summarized as: “We don’t know how many firearms there are in America, so we cannot draw any correlation or causation conclusions between firearms and the peopl...
One of the things that amuses me immensely is reading someone else working the same time period I do. Say Tudor England, or Dumas musketeers. The names are the same, but the actual place is completely different. And it’s not that their research is wrong — because I don’t read ...
When you use a computer, the window should be on your left or your right. If it is behind you, the light will reflect on (反射) the screen. If the window is in front of you, the sun and the screen will both shine into your eyes. ...
Formal Korean phrases are used when you’re speaking to someone who is older than you or who holds a higher position or social hierarchy than you. You may also use these phrases with people who you are close with, but you want to show or give them respect. Here are a few of the com...