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Google :   “Through the looking glass" is a metaphorical expression. It means: on the strange side, in the twilight zone, in a strange parallel world. It comes from the idea of Lewis Carroll's novel: "Through the Looking-Glass," and the strange and mysterious world Alice finds when she steps through a mirror. Britannica :   Through the Looking-Glass , in full Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There , is a book by Lewis Carroll, dated 1872 but actually published in December 1871. Written as a sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , Through the Looking-Glass describes Alice’s further adventures as she moves through a mirror into another unreal world of illogical behavior, this one dominated by chessboards and chess pieces. Like Alice, I seem to have fallen into a rabbit hole.   My boundaries have been alternately shrunken and exploded by what I have consumed.   But now things are decidedly different.   Because now I’ve steppe...

We haven’t talked about the elephant in the room for a while, and I don't mean the Republican Party.   I’m talking about the climate crisis.  So here's what's been happening on that front since we last took a look.  By the way, the man pictured above is cleaning oil off a crab he caught in Lake Maracaibo, from which it will be exported to the US.  More on that below. Serves 'Em Right!   Right-wing majority parties in the Veneto regional council in Italy rejected amendments to fight the climate crisis in the 2020 budget proposed by the center-left Democratic party.   Moments later their offices on the Grand Canal in Venice were flooded with sea water.   Flooding topped six feet above sea level in Venice, the highest recorded since 1966. Sail Away, Sail Away .   On November 4, President Trump submitted the paperwork to officially withdraw the United States from the Paris agreement on climate change, which every other country on E...