On 16/03/2015 4:21 AM, Hypatia Nachshon wrote:

* FF (foreign friends) Florida is not, uh, the most "progressive" -- in the old, true, non-crazy sense -- State in the Union.

Indeed. "Jeb Bush" says it all really.


**FF - you no doubt know that the Pulitzer Prize is THE honor that journalists and other of the written word aspire to.

Yes, we all know about that too.

pulitzer.org

Curious if your countries have something similar.

Well our country does. It's called the Walkley Awards.

There is an old saying: "When the US sneezes, the world catches a cold".
In essence that means that the world watches, and reports on
happenings in the US very closely. From comments I've sen over many
years online, I'm not convinced that the reverse applies.

To support my point, all you have to do is to read Cotton's letter to
the Iranians and then read what the Iranian Foreign Minister wrote in
response. One of those letters reads like it came from a smart, urbane
informed person. The other letter reads like it comes from the pen of a
parochial, patronising, ill informed person.