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Featured Image: Photo by Jasperdo on Flickr, shared under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Cropped in Affinity Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now While the Hawaiian archipelago (137 islands, atolls, reefs, shallow banks, shoals, and seamounts stretching over 1,500

Featured Image: Photo by Chris Yakimov on flickr from a September 27, 2019 march in Vancouver, Canada.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now We know the climate crisis is real, at this point. Most of us know

Featured image: Photo by michael loadenthal on flickr.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now You’ve probably heard about apartheid in South Africa, Israel, and maybe even Myanmar. But we don’t talk about apartheid in the United States.

Featured image: Photo by Koushik Chowdavarapu from Unsplash.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now This is my third (and for now, last) post in a series about communism. I covered communism basics first, then debunked some popular

Featured image: Image by Vera Prokhorova on Shutterstock.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now First, let’s kill the myth that these ridiculous time changes serve farmers, and that we continue the tradition of Daylight Savings Time (DST)

Featured image: Poster by Vladimir Kalensky (Soviet Union, 1968) on a red background. The slogan is “Long Live the Socialist Revolution!”   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now Communism has been pretty seriously vilified in the United States,

Featured image: Image by Rawpixel on Shutterstock. Edited in Affinity Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now Jahi McMath bled for hours after a routine tonsil-removal surgery in 2013 while nurses dismissed her. Her grandmother, a nurse

Featured image: Image by svekloid on Shutterstock. Edited in Affinity Photo and Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now It may surprise some people to know that Marx was a democrat (in the true sense of the

Featured image: Image by ctankcycles, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Edited in Affinity Photo and Designer.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now Every year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, politicians and white people who want to appear

Image by Sincerely Media from Unsplash. Edited in Affinity Photo. I did The Calm Scribe’s reading challenge last year (see my planned book list and my results post). I was excited because it’s a list of 26 types of books, and I get to pick which specific books to read. Why not just say “read 26 books

Featured image by Debby Hudson from Unsplash. Edited in Affinity Designer. Last year, I participated in The Calm Scribe’s Reading Challenge for 2021. Today I’m looking back to see how I did. From the List I read seven of my 26 originally planned books. I read two more that were substitutions: Instead of I’m Still Here by Austin

Featured image: Images by Gayatri Malhotra from Unsplash. Edited in Affinity Photo.   Double click or tap any English word in this post to open its definition in a new window (external).   4 for Now I know it’s New Year’s Eve here in the US, but remind me—are we going into 2022 or 1973?