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When Good Vacations Go Nowhere
Canada, Current Affairs, Pandemic, Travel

When Good Vacations Go Nowhere

Oct 30, 2022 0 1

These are not halcyon days for nonrev fliers. Domestic flights continue to be randomly canceled, which makes it a challenge to get anywhere in the U.S. beyond your home airport. My home airport happens to be considered the gateway to Europe, but even that’s a mess–it’s easy to...

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Hell is Other People On the Way to Alaska
Current Affairs, United States

Hell is Other People On the Way to Alaska

Aug 22, 2021 0 0

“Are you sure you should still be going to Alaska?” Those were the first words my mother said to me yesterday when I called her. She turned seventy this year and still lives in the rural hinterlands where I grew up. She’s fully vaccinated, but less than fifty percent of the...

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Where the Puffins and the Glaciers Roam…and Beyond
Current Affairs, Iceland, Travel

Where the Puffins and the Glaciers Roam…and Beyond

Jun 7, 2020 0 0

Like most people who leisure travel on the regular, I’m jonesing to get on an airplane and . . . go somewhere. I’m also concerned about potential exposure to the novel coronavirus because I am not interested in contracting COVID-19, mild case or not. The last few days I’ve...

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Six Feet & Then Some: Pandemic Travels
Current Affairs, Travel, United States

Six Feet & Then Some: Pandemic Travels

Apr 5, 2020 0 0

It seems weird to think that Mr. Pretty and I had just come back from Jamaica at this time last month, and now the entire world is shut down in response to a global pandemic. While I’m entering my fourth week of working remotely (I’m referring to my dining room as my satellite...

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Current Affairs, Jamaica

Traveling in the Age of COVID-19

Mar 4, 2020 0 0

When impeached U.S. President Donald Trump started boasting about his kick-ass response to the coronavirus epidemic and then put world-renowned epidemiologist and science proponent Mike Pence in charge of the federal task force to prevent the spread of COVID-19, I had an inkling that strategy...

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Current Affairs, United States

Victims and Witches in Salem, MA

Dec 26, 2019 0 0

How do 24 innocent people get executed over accusations of witchcraft? Most (mostly women) were hanged, one guy was pressed to death, and several others died in jails under terrible conditions. The accused–like the guy who was pressed to death–were tortured into confession, and...

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Thanks for your labor!
Current Affairs

Thanks for your labor!

Sep 5, 2017 0 0

It’s Labor Day here in the States. While my mom was in a union for a very long time, as was my stepfather, my closest connection to unions is through Mr. Pretty. He’s not in a union himself, but the people he works with are union. In fact, almost the entire airline industry runs on...

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Earth Day 2017 and Pending Disasters
Current Affairs, Greece, Iceland, Italy

Earth Day 2017 and Pending Disasters

Apr 24, 2017 0 0

This past weekend was Earth Day, and I marked the occasion by participating in Philadelphia’s March for Science. I hear that the crowd stretched about 12 city blocks, and that there were probably a little over 10,000 people. It seems kind of insane that we’d have to march in protest...

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Dress Code Blues: United Isn’t in the Wrong
Current Affairs

Dress Code Blues: United Isn’t in the Wrong

Mar 27, 2017 0 0

People are, apparently, freaking out over the fact that a United gate crew refused to allow a couple of girls to board a plane in Colorado because they were wearing leggings. Folks are losing their minds because they’re seeing this as some kind of body shaming-child sexualizing death march back...

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More “For Show” Security Measures?
Current Affairs

More “For Show” Security Measures?

Mar 21, 2017 0 0

  My jaw swung open when I read a headline last night that the U.S. was banning electronics in cabin baggage on flights coming to the US from eight majority Muslim countries. The airlines impacted are Royal Jordanian, Egypt Air, Turkish Airlines, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Kuwait Airways,...

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