By Lambert Strether of Corrente
Affected person readers, I suffered a family debacle this morning that’s too boring to elucidate, and the result’s that right this moment’s Water Cooler is an open thread.
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When you may use a palate cleanser after Zelensky’s speech, I extremely advocate this episode of Aaron Maté’s Pushback:
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TH writes: “I’m off work for the month of January, so had a possibility to go to a park in Irvine for a stroll and a few pictures. I used to be struck by the distinction of the luxurious deep greens and reds in opposition to the background of grey dry shrubbery.”
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Right here is the display that can seem, which I’ve helpfully annotated.
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