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Monday, January 06, 2025

A January 6th story

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Growing up, we learned about the Feast of the Epiphany/Feast of the Magi, when the three kings arrived at the stable to greet Jesus, the new...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

A couple of new editions

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I completely appreciate that the timing for Christmas is just terrific, distracting us from our struggle to get through the gloomy dark days...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Tis the season for donating, but this is ridiculous

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Tis the season when hearts and wallets turn to end-of-year charitable donations. But some folks in the giving spirit apparently don't ca...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Shades - crazy shades - of Willy Wonka!

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This is such a crazy story - just chocked full of intrigue, greed, naivite, pissiness, selfishness, poor communications, and a golden prize....
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Oh, those crypto bros. (Let them eat bananas.)

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Last month, at auction, Sotheby sold a work of conceptual art (entitled Comedian) by "artist" Maurizio Cattelan. The work was a ba...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

This is terrifying

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A couple of years ago, some members of the Patriot Front - a white nationalist group - spent their Saturday sturming around downtown Boston....
Monday, December 16, 2024

Why indepedent investigative journalism matters. (The case for Pro Publica.)

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Frankly, I'm scared.  I'm scared that our frail and beleaguered "mainstream" press, already cowed into normalizing Trump ...
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Thursday, December 12, 2024

What a terrific hobby!

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My family didn't do a lot of traveling when I was a growing up. Summer vacation meant a) going to Chicago, or b) renting a cottage (owne...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Here's to good old beer

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My father wasn't much of a drinker, but mostly he drank beer. Ruppert Knickerbocker beer. He may have averaged one a night, after supper...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Yeah, but how's its bedside manner

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My husband and I used to love watching House , a show in which an eccentric, obnoxious, brilliant doctor - Gregory House (played by the terr...
Monday, December 09, 2024

In defense of the humble balloon

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I'm always interested in seeing which toys get the nod for induction into the National Toy Hall of Fame. This year's winners held no...
Thursday, December 05, 2024

This year's N-M Fantasies...

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I do so look forward each year to the Neiman-Marcus Fantasy Gifts Catalog , or, as I like to think of it, the Let Them Eat Cake Spree.  For ...
Wednesday, December 04, 2024

Here comes the sun, and I say....

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I suspect I'll be long gone before one of two things happens: One, our planet ends up as some sort of near total hellscape - environment...