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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Osama bin Laden’s Coke-Pepsi taste test

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Like most everyone else, I have been eagerly consuming reports on the death of Osama bin Laden. Good riddance, as we used to say in Worces...
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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Naked Came the Stranger

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One of my deeply held beliefs is that there comes a moment in everyone’s life when they absolutely, positively, no questions asked look bett...
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Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Gladvertisting? Sadvertising? Hand me my burqa, please.

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Digital billboards are becoming a big part of the advertising business. This is no great surprise given the technology capabilities now avai...
Monday, May 02, 2011

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For those of a certain age, the title of this post should ring a bell. Perhaps with the “ding” that manual typewriters sounded when you got ...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

The End of the Line

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Today, the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton is being celebrated and televised. If a meteor, say, were to strike Westminster A...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Doodle Bra

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Last week, I went on a one-day road trip with my nieces, Molly and Caroline. They girls are early teens – 14 and 13, respectively. While m...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Ripped from the headlines: Brain Collector Seeks Trump-Like Donors to Probe Personality

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This header on Bloomberg -  a caption certainly worthy of The National Enquirer – proved irresistible to anyone with the least of click thr...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Project Propec (and you think your job is crappy)

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I dog-sat Jack, my dog-nephew, for a bit last week. During our time together, Jack pooped three times. Fortunately, my sister and her fa...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Becoming a Europhile

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Today is the 38th anniversary of my leaving on my first trip abroad. With the exception of the flight home from my grandfather’s funeral, wh...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Peeps on Earth, Good Will To Men, Women, and Children

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Spring has not yet sprung in New England. By this time of year, we’ve generally had a string of sunny, sweater-weather days. Maybe even a ...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Rule, Britannia wedding souvenirs

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What with the Royal W just a bit over a week away, and it being Queen Elizabeth’s birthday today, I was feeling in a bit of a take-a-royal-g...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Winklevoss Identity: never too rich

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Before I begin, I should probably get a couple of things out there: I have yet to see The Social Network . I’m not much of a Facebo...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The Poor Farm

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There was an article in The Boston Globe a couple of weeks back the town of Milton’s (a close-in suburb) trying to figure out what to do wi...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Patriots’ Day 2011

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I hope that the United States never becomes so blandly homogenized that all fifty-states worth of nifty little regionalisms disappear. Bad...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Iceland’s Phallological Museum gets its man. (Not much else to do in there in the cold and dark.)

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Although I don’t go there very often, one of my favorite museums is the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH). Its exhibits include the ...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

High in the sky. (Aer Lingus gives new meaning to the mile-high club.)

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Five weeks from tonight, my husband and I will be flying to Shannon for a long-awaited vacation to Ireland. We’ll be on Aer Lingus, which - ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Ashes to ashes for Messrs. Kluger, Bauer & Robinson

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Gambling’s so much easier when you cheat, that’s for sure. But doesn’t it ever cross the minds of gamblers who cheat that they’re going to...