June 6, 2024
Thursday Open Comments
An independent nation, striving to be free, having learned to be democratic: How is it acceptable for the rest of the Free World to agree that it isn’t a really independent country, and its continued existence is in doubt?
We have a surfeit of international relations and foreign policy experts in America, many with the toppest of top credentials. And the ones in government apparently have completely lost the plot.
Here’s the track record of the country that claims ownership:
Annoy the dictatorship in Beijing by sharing and watching the video as much as possible.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13499033/baby-names-brink-extinction-revealed.html
The Daily Mail has a fluff piece on baby names that were once rather popular but are now used fewer than 20 times per year. It's interesting to see that they are almost exclusively diminutives of names that remain in general use. Girls aren't named "Bess" these days, but millions are named "Elizabeth." Boys don't have "Dom" or "Hal" as their birth certificate name, but "Dominic" and "Henry" (or "Harold") aren't unusual.
Others are one spelling among several for the same name, like "Christi" or "Kerri".
ETA: Daughter C says that my granddaughter will be named Georgia Carolyn, family names some generations back. I rather expected her to include one of her sisters' names, but this is tasteful. Announcing the baby's name when you're 3 months pregnant, though ... unnngh.
More rain. My family has disappeared. I deduce they have gone shopping.