Saturday Reads and Such

 In case you missed it, the funeral of Prince Philip:



I hope the video is available for those who miss seeing it live, like yours truly.
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The world death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 3 million.

Snip:


The global pace of deaths is accelerating, too. After the coronavirus emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the pandemic claimed a million lives in nine months. It took another four months to kill its second million, and just three months to kill a million more. 

 “We are running out of space,” Mohammed Shamin, a gravedigger in New Delhi’s largest Muslim cemetery, said on Saturday. “If we don’t get more space, you will soon see dead bodies rotting in the streets.”

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Nicholas Kristof is on the right track regarding porn, but he needs to understand it is ALL exploitative by definition.
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