Tags: The New Yorker

An ‘Old Soul’s’ Christmas.

Calling someone an old soul says they’re wise before their time.

It has nothing to do with age. A child can be an old soul. But if there’s One Big Thing that happened this year, it’s how the idea of being ‘old’ is changing and how quickly we should move to catch up to it.

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You better have a forensic fact-checker.

Two scandals this week show how the business of shame is always evolving.

The first involves Buffy Sainte-Marie who seemed as Indigenous as can be.

But the CBC’s Fifth Estate shocked us all by uncovering documentation and witnesses that claim she was not born into the Cree First Nation north of Regina, but is an Italian-American raised in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

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The Plague-Ground – Summer cleaning

My laptop is groaning with articles, videos, and the wave of “stuph” that lands every day from friends who say: “Must see this!” And I

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