I suspect that they were blasting it out everywhere. NewspaperArchive.com just happens to have a lot of Jamaica’s newspapers digitized so I know that there was a big presence there.
Who is Matt Novak speaking on behalf of? Just say it instead of dancing around whatever you’re trying to say.
I agree that we probably need a new vocabulary. Before my time it was “first world” versus “third world” countries. Then when I was in school it was “developed” versus “developing” countries. Now “wealthy countries” seems to be most frequently used to describe what used to be called the “first world.”
Uruguay is the only other country where recreational marijuana is legal nationwide, so that seems unlikely.
The author of the book One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps agrees that the term “concentration camp” applies to what’s going on in the United States right now:
Not sure what you’re talking about. The sign next door appears to have a name on top (something “Heinz”) and an English description of goods on the bottom (something “& vinegar”). But all of that aside, it would probably make sense that they’d set up shop next to some business that was German.
When I was in high school I used to dumpster dive at Half Price Books in Minnesota all the time. The manager at the South St. Paul location caught us one time and was so angry. Never made any sense to me when you’re throwing away hundreds of perfectly good books and records every week.
