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"One is never told…

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… what might have been.” — C. S. Lewis But try to stop guessing, that’s the hard part Ace of Spades HQ In 1942, we declared a preemtive war against Nazi Germany, a nation that had not yet attacked us. But what if we had not?

Safety in the Air

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So I sit here on the plane, where they don’t let any more than 3 people queue up for the restrooms, and one of the restrooms is out of order. We must clear the aisles because our bodily necessities make it inconvenient for the stewardesses — oops, make that “flight attendants” — to roll up … Continue reading Safety in the Air

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There are nine different words in Maya for the color blue in the comprehensive Porrua Spanish-Maya Dictionary but just three Spanish translations, leaving six butterflies that can be seen only by the Maya, proving beyond a doubt that when a language dies, six butterflies disappear from the consciousness of the earth. — Earl Shorris