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Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Never too late to exonerate the Salem witches

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The Salem Witch Trials are certainly one of the more ignoble chapters in American history. Mass hysteria is never  a good thing. In Massachu...
Tuesday, December 05, 2023

Ghost influencer? Zero pay, but no demands

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I am anything but a dedicated follower of fashion.  If I have a fashion philosophy, it's never in style, never out of style .  If asked ...
Monday, December 04, 2023

Home sweet meth house home

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Property prices in a lot of places are totally out of whack. I live in one of those places; another one is California, where a house in San ...
Friday, December 01, 2023

World AIDS Day

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I didn't actually know my colleague J all that well. But we were both part of a larger friend group at work, a bunch that hung out toget...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

A.I. First? After you, please.

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A month or so ago, I was reading an article in The New Yorker on San Francisco , and whether or not it's in a doomloop.  A section in t...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

The not so friendly skies

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Ove the years, I've flown a fair amount, and, if I have on occasion given fleeting thought to the idea that the plane might crash, I...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

157 pieces of Le Creuset? Talk about too much of a good thing.

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I'm not a great cook. I don't love cooking. I don't swoon over cookbooks.  But I'm a decent cook. I have my specialties, an...
Monday, November 27, 2023

While you're contemplating the last of your leftovers

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There are few things I like better than a turkey sandwich with cranberry sauce, a pickle, and - to really max the carb load - a dollop of st...
Friday, November 24, 2023

Pink Slip-less Friday

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Forget Black Friday. This is a Pink Slip-less Friday.  I'll be lolling around with a turkey sandwich, not shopping.
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving 2024

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Thankful for: Family. (Many are friends, too!!! Yay!) Friends. (Some are like family!!! Yay!) Dogs. (Their very existence makes living worth...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

The 10th anniversary of the 50th anniversary

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Today is the 60th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I was going to write about what that day was all about for an almost-...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Rent control, Fuggerei style

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There aren't a lot of people living in the Fuggerei, a walled village within the walled city of Augsburg, in Germany. In fact, there are...
Monday, November 20, 2023

What, me get suckered by a scam? Me????

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I read (and write) about scams all the time. And, of course, I pride myself on my acuity, my brainpower, et all sorts of cetera smart-person...
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Friday, November 17, 2023

Resorting to resort fees

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One of the more aggravating aspects of modern life is the seemingly extraneous fees that get added on to ticket purchases. Convenience charg...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

The Internet really does change everything, including Ponzi schemes.

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In the late 1990s, when we were experiencing the first wave of Internet madness, Bill Gates famously/supposedly said "the Internet chan...