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ENGin Heros Ukraine

Annoying People / Надокучливі люди

Perhaps this is a US thing only, or maybe just a WLBOTT thing, be we occasionally encounter annoying people. In order to help our Ukrainian ENGin buddies, here are ways to express this frustration. (ed. note: the translations are a little iffy.) WLBOTT Word of the Day They are a bugging me. Вони мене дратують. […]

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America The Criminal Justice System

Love is in the Air! (Supreme Court Version)

Match the Scotus with the Spousal Unit! Justice Spouse Scotus 01 SU 01 Scotus 02 SU 02 Scotus 03 SU 03 Scotus 04 SU 04 Scotus 05 SU 05 Scotus 06 SU 06 Scotus 07 SU 07 Scotus 08 SU 08 Scotus 09 SU 09 Interlude: More Love The Answers Biographies from the SCOTUS official […]

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Heros - NOT New York Sticking It To The Man The Criminal Justice System

Can We Please Get On With our Lives?

In a minute. But first…. Correlation, causation and coincidence There is both a metaphysical and statistical debate about the titled topics.  But I will just point out the drop in Hormel stock today, a can of Spam is 340 grams  and Trump getting convicted on 34 counts.  I’ll let the Elders ruminate on this. UC#3

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Movies Nova Scotia The land, the people, the culture

Is WLBOTT (Lunch) Counter-Revolutionary?

A lively discussion is taking place among the Elders. 5/25/2024, 10:42 AM I feel the elders have been trying to be inclusive of our guild recognizing some of us use the metric system vs American system of measurement and Celsius vs Fahrenheit temperature scales. But my ear-worm today is the term ‘counterclockwise’ vs ‘anti clockwise’ […]

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Food Heros Late Stage Capitalism Nature Philippines

Golden Rice, Part II

There is so much to talk about with Golden Rice that we have only seen the tip of the Rice-Berg™©®℗☮. Distrust of Corporate Producers One of the concerns of opponents of Golden Rice is a distrust of the GMO patent holders. In August of 2013, a group of protesters uprooted the golden rice plants in […]

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We Are Not a Cult (Part II): Praise and Worship of our Leader

To dispel any rumors that WLBOTT is a cult, I invited our esteemed members to write Praise and Worship limericks to extol my humility. So the day began as usual. At 4:30am the BLOTTers arose, practiced group yodeling, had a hearty breakfast of kale and coco puffs, a brisk 6 km jog in a foggy […]

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Arizona Project 2124 The land, the people, the culture

Are We a Cult?

The other day, while Sally the Intern and I were shaving the head of a new WLBOTT novitiate, she asked me, “is WLBOTT a cult?” This gave me pause. Semi-Sequitur: WLBOTT Word of the Day Are we a cult? What IS a cult? Let’s look at what Very Well Mind says…. Let us enumerate and […]

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Curated Absurdity Food Minnesota

SPAM (part I of IV)

We blame UC#3 for today’s torturous tempest of a Spam BLOTT. Gentlepeople – I am still waiting on Securities Exchange Commission approval of our WLBOTT fund but should have it by tomorrow. But I wanted to explain one of the investment choices. Our most Esteamed Senior Elder, UC#4 (Señor Viejo), has a strong affinity for […]

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Heros Ukraine

This is Why You Don’t Mess With Ukraine

More, please…. A Little Background Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Усик; born 17 January 1987) is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He is the undisputed heavyweight champion, holding the WBA (Super), IBF and WBO titles since 2021, the Ring magazine title since 2022, and the WBC title since 2024. Previously, he held the undisputed cruiserweight […]

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WLBOTT Re-Reading List (part II of XVII)

UC#3 sparked our interest recently with this suggestion: A survey for the elders – which books have you ‘reread’ the most? I’m not asking for favorite books or most compelling, but which books have continued to read again? UC#3 KM and UC#2 Both KM and UC#2 are huge Harry Potter fans. UC#2 uses the first […]