Thursday, January 27, 2022

TEASING COVID

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  An increasing number of friends and relatives have caught Covid-19, fortunately for them, the Omicron variant.   Elderly, but vaccinated a...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

THE JANUARY CALENDAR BOYS

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There are three of them: Eike Batista of Brazil, François Fillon of France and of course Donald Trump for the whole world. At first sight, ...
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Saturday, January 28, 2017

Brazil is not for beginners

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  The phrase is attributed to bossa nova singer and composer Tom Jobim. It implies that the country is not only soccer, samba and beaches...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

2017: Fasten Your Seat Belt

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  This is my last blog of 2016, the 14 th of the year. My blogs are written to entertain my friends and stimulate my intellect. Convenien...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

A yellow hair fox in the chicken coop

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  America has done the unthinkable, electing a man who may run the White House like a casino. Hillary Clinton was the common sense candidate...
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Sunday, November 6, 2016

Tropical Marie Antoinette

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  In the confined and shameless world of Brazilian politico-corporate corruption, it is more Versailles than Greenwich, Connecticut! With ...
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Sunday, October 9, 2016

Olympe and Mary, 18th Century Feminist Trailblazers

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“So you have found love in Paris”, Olympe de Gouges greeted English war correspondent  Mary Wollstonecraft in her apartment in early 1793. ...
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