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Thursday, July 02, 2026

Semiquincentennial? I celebrated on June 18th.

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I don't remember all that much about my personal celebration of our nation's bicentennial. The year before, on April 19, 1975, I...
Wednesday, July 01, 2026

Spies are everywhere. (So glad I'm out of the fray.)

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A few weeks ago, my sister Trish retired. A week before her big day, she turned 67. Since she always had a part-time job in high school, and...
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Firing Offense? Well...

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Although I don't typically root, root, root for teams from New York, I was delighted when the Knicks won the NBA championship. The games...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

O, Canada: Take your geese, please!

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At a distance, they are quite beautiful. That is to say, when that distance is hundreds of feet in the air, and they're amassed in chevr...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

I, Crepitus! (Snap, Crackle, and Pop)

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I have been averaging 5-7 miles a day walking for years. While I fully understand that this is not a perfect workout, it has mostly worked o...
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

No Scotland, No Party. (All Hail, the Tartan Army!)

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I hadn't been paying particular attention to the World Cup. I'd been keeping a very small eye on it, mostly to see whether futbol te...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

Was the Peppa Pig themed birthday party worth it, Ms. Mayor?

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I'm like a broken record here, but stories about people with their hand in the workplace till NEVER fail to amaze me. Do these folks thi...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Talk about a man-bites-dog story

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Every once in a while. Correction. This is loaded-gun-loaded, blood-soaked America we're talking here. With fair regularity, we see a re...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Should've stuck to bubble gum...

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When the story was first reported, it looked as if Ipswich school administrators were way over-reacting by suspending from play six members ...
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Thursday, June 11, 2026

It's not that they're tone deaf. It's that they really don't care

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Google. Salesforce. Oracle. Microsoft. They've all been pinkslipping thousands of workers to help fund the buildout of the AI infrastruc...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

See the USA, in your Chevrolet

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By Trump administration grifting standards, Sean Duffy's Great American Road Trip , a YouTube series dropping this month, is no big deal...