A sheriff in the Hudson River Valley near Albany, New York, about to go into the hills in the fall of 1839 to collect back rents from tenants on the enormous Rensselaer estate, was handed a letter. Russia said its recent deployment of two of its new Su57 fighter jets to Syria would scare off other countries from flying their planes in Syrian airspace. But the Su57 is a long way from being. Musings from too close to the crypt. Random thoughts, valentines, and vitriol from an aging and increasingly cranky boomer who's tired of the public flogging he's taken as an Oregon Public Employee and now as a retired public employee drawing his PERS pension. Two years ago I wrote about how BuzzFeed thinks about data science. All the same basic tenets still hold today, and yet the metrics we cared about then are vastly different from the metrics we care. My name is Crusoe and I am a miniature black and tan dachshund. But dont take miniature too much to heart. 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These heartbreaking Jacob Riis photographs from How the Other Half Lives and elsewhere changed America forever. Crooked Hillary Clintons top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened [Allie Brosh on Amazon. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. # 1 New York Times Bestseller Funny and smart as hell (Bill Gates) Explore the popularity of everything from movie stars to airlines with Explore the popularity of everything from movie stars to airlines YouGov Ratings Societal attitudes toward homosexuality vary greatly in different cultures and different historical periods, as do attitudes toward sexual desire, activity and relationships in general. 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