Go gently
“People say, ‘My cellphone sucks.’ No, it doesn’t! The shi**iest cellphone in the world is a miracle. Your life sucks.”– Louis C.K.SAIPAN – “Smartphones,” says a Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist,...
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SAIPAN – Isaac Asimov wrote a short story about a planet that had six suns.
View ArticleThe spell of the ‘South Seas’
SAIPAN – Before the NMI’s economic boom of the late 1980s – fueled by massive Japanese investments – the last time the islands had enjoyed prosperity was during the Japanese administration that ended...
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SAIPAN – Jeb Bush says Donald Trump is a “jerk.” Donald, in turn, calls Jeb “dumb as a rock.”
View ArticleFear is our default mode
SAIPAN – According to evolutionary science, our ancestors’ survival odds were greatly improved by the mechanism in their brains that prioritized bad news.
View ArticleCUC’s CW crunch
SAIPAN – On Nov. 24, 2015, Variety reported that “CUC Power Plant May Face Labor Shortage.”
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SAIPAN – An online commentator says the federal CW program may be inconvenient, but the problems before federalization were much, much worse.
View ArticleBumpy ride for the CNMI
SAIPAN – There will be further and quite possibly massive reductions in the CW-1 cap in 2017 and 2018 before the number goes down to zero on Dec. 31, 2019.
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