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I still go with upstate NY with 1/3 describing that area with the names of towns and 2/3rds describing someplace else. It's like Evelyn Waugh did in creating Anthony Blanche combining Brian Howard and Harold Acton at Oxford in the 1920's. I believe it was Brian Howard who when addressing someone wou...

Always a Dodger fan even though I grew up in Angel land. Joe Kelly as a Dodger is as good as it gets...

Caffeine raises your blood pressure which increases stroke risk. I would choose exercise, eating good food (you can hunt it down and gather it into your shopping cart at your local market) and getting enough sleep.

Thanks for responding, Shulem. How about five to ten discrepancies of it not being the Niagara Falls area. Let me sit and think about those. How about the area tweaked with stories from English soldiers.

Thanks for all your hard work, Shulem. For me Bountiful is Rochester N.Y which you might say includes the finger lakes area of upstate New York. I need to read more about creating a person, place or thing in fiction. In one of my favorite books, Brideshead Revisited, there is a character named Antho...

Thank you for your passion, Veritas. And the links.

The war comes after ten months of the most significant domestic political and social crisis in decades, due to legislation promoted by the Netanyahu government aimed at dramatically weakening Israel's judiciary and potentially rescuing Netanyahu from the three corruption trials he faces – and amid ...

There is no getting rid of Hamas or Israel although Israel has taken the Gaza many times since 1948 and given it back. Hamas and company will never take any land occupied now by Israel unless Israel gives it to them, or some may say, gives it back to them. If the United States defunds Israel then th...

Kishkumen, are you endorsing a third party or is Biden your candidate?

In today's email news brief Haaratz, a newspaper in Israel reports: "Blinken said Israel has not shown the U.S. a "credible plan" to prevent Hamas from re-establishing its presence in areas of Gaza the IDF has left, warning Israel could face an "enduring insurgency." The Biden administration has rep...