For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 9-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 9-Aug, Part 1
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 8-Aug
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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06-Aug-1325-Feb-26Birthdays, Falls City
Happy Birthday, Bill!
To note a much happier occasion: Happy birthday to Bill Schock, owner/editor of the Falls City Journal, who was monumentally helpful to me in the research and writing of the upcoming book. He graciously shared his photos and memories of Braniff 250 with me for publication; four of those are below, many more will be...
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06-Aug-1325-Feb-26Braniff International Airlines, History
Remembering Braniff Flight 250, 47 Years Ago Today
Taking time today to remember a tragic moment: 47 years ago today: Braniff International flight 250 crashed on Tony and Vernell Schawang’s soybean farm northeast of Falls City, NE, taking 42 lives. The crash had widespread consequences, both personally and in the industry. We fly safely today without any thought thanks in large part to...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 5-Aug
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 4-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 4-Aug, Part 1
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 3-Aug
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 2-Aug, Part 4
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 2-Aug, Part 3
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 2-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 2-Aug, Part 1
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. An extra note on this one: It’s especially sad to...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 1-Aug, Part 4
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 1-Aug, Part 3
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 1-Aug, Part 2
For the next few weeks, we’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. ‘Here’s another retro/anniversary post … skip it you’re not into...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 1-Aug, Part 1
For the next few weeks, I’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. Laid Up ‘I’ve been so laid up with carpal tunnel...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 31-July
For the next few weeks, I’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be. The last time I’ll give directions in San Francisco? ‘“Is Lombard down that way or up the...
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Retro Post: 10 Years Ago Today, 23-July
For the next few weeks, I’ll be observing an anniversary: 10 years since we left San Francisco and moved to Ann Arbor. I’ll repost articles Frank and I wrote at that time for our Ann Arbor blog, aSquared. Bittersweet, very definitely they will be, bittersweet. Beginning of the End ‘Sorry for the few-and-far-between updates, folks,...
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22-Jul-1325-Feb-26Rants, Southwest Airlines
WN345 Nose Gear Collapse at KLGA
“WN737-700 N753SW, operating as Southwest 345 from Nashville (KBNA) experiences nose gear collapse on arrival at KLGA.” …
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Sorry We Destroyed Your Life After You Saved Our Country
“Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker who took his own life after being convicted of gross indecency under anti-homosexuality legislation, is to be given a posthumous pardon.” …
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19-Jul-1325-Feb-26Politics and Elections, Quotable
At Least One American Gets It
“America currently has no functioning democracy. ” James Earl Carter, 39th President of the U.S. “Amerika hat derzeit keine funktionierende Demokratie … Ich glaube, die Invasion der Privatsphäre ist zu weit gegangen. Und ich glaube, dass die Geheimnistuerei darum exzessiv gewesen ist. [Snowden’s revelations] wahrscheinlich nützlich, da sie die Öffentlichkeit informieren … nie zuvor dagewesene...
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13-Jul-1325-Feb-26Politics and Elections, Quotable
I Believe …
“Individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity.” Edward Snowden “I believe in the principle declared at Nuremberg in 1945 … Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace...
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Civil War Hospitals, the Vagaries of History and Us
A «sad story on the evening news» which prompted the following stream-of-consciousness (and shows how exciting my Sunday nights are): A fire destroyed a home north of Murfreesboro which was used as a hospital for Civil War troops. The family who lived there was refurbishing it and lost everything. But the story caught my attention...
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Julie Ward Howe's 1870 Mother's Day Proclamation
“The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.” Julia Ward Howe “Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or tears! “Say firmly: ‘We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with...
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01-May-1325-Feb-26Uncategorized
by AirBeagletracylord: Tippi Hedren and her daughter Melanie Griffith
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Tippi and Melanie
tracylord: Tippi Hedren and her daughter Melanie Griffith As Seen On
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24-Apr-1325-Feb-26Uncategorized
by AirBeagleThe Color of School Closures Spread the [rather obvious] word: “Mass school closings have become a hallmark of today’s dominant education policy agenda. But rather than helping students, these closures disrupt whole communities. And as U.S. Department of Education data suggests, the most recent rounds of mass closings in Chicago, New York City and Philadelphia...
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School Closures Hit Disproportionately
The Color of School Closures Spread the [rather obvious] word: “Mass school closings have become a hallmark of today’s dominant education policy agenda. But rather than helping students, these closures disrupt whole communities. And as U.S. Department of Education data suggests, the most recent rounds of mass closings in Chicago, New York City and Philadelphia...
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23-Feb-1325-Feb-26Uncategorized
by AirBeagleGermany 1980 “Hehehehe. We sure did beat the crap outta you Poles.” “Hehehehe. Yeah, ya sure did. … Hey, wanna be Pope?”
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Pope Been-a-Nazi
Germany 1980 “Hehehehe. We sure did beat the crap outta you Poles.” “Hehehehe. Yeah, ya sure did. … Hey, wanna be Pope?” As Seen On
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Woo-Hoo! Occupy the Corporations!
Susan Ohanian’s piece in « Daily Censored » needs wider distribution. Here are two highlights: “In response to a poverty rate that tops 90% in many urban and rural schools –and 1.6 million homeless children—many in schools with no libraries–education reformers at the White House, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Governors...
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Woo-Hoo! Occupy the Corporations! (2013)
Susan Ohanian’s piece in « Daily Censored » needs wider distribution. Here are two highlights: “In response to a poverty rate that tops 90% in many urban and rural schools –and 1.6 million homeless children—many in schools with no libraries–education reformers at the White House, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Governors...
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12-Feb-1325-Feb-26Meaningful Labor, Reciprocal Affection
Hey! You Okay?
Fell back asleep this morning while reading. Must have been more tired than I thought. Started having dreams. Last one was about going to Dad’s funeral. For some reason, we took a train to get to the church. Also, I refused to go to the funeral on time and had to be dragged out by...
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12-Feb-1325-Feb-26Uncategorized
by AirBeagleDougal for Pope. If there is any justice (or any god in the heavens), let it be Dougal. #FatherTed
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Dougal for Pope
Dougal for Pope. If there is any justice (or any god in the heavens), let it be Dougal. #FatherTed As Seen On
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04-Feb-1325-Feb-26Uncategorized
It’s Richard
It’s Richard Researchers in England confirmed this morning that the skeleton found underneath a Leicester car park is indeed that of Richard III, last Plantagenet king and the last king of the country to fall in battle. “There were cheers when Richard Buckley, lead archaeologist on the hunt for the king’s body, finally announced that...
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The Bones are Richard’s
It’s Richard Researchers in England confirmed this morning that the skeleton found underneath a Leicester car park is indeed that of Richard III, last Plantagenet king and the last king of the country to fall in battle. “There were cheers when Richard Buckley, lead archaeologist on the hunt for the king’s body, finally announced that...
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30-Jan-1325-Feb-26Uncategorized
Shazam!
Shazam! Gaaaaa-uhhhhh-lllleeeeeee!!!!! (But thanks for coming in out of the cold, finally!)
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21-Jan-1325-Feb-26Uncategorized
by AirBeagle“Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.” [Meanwhile, his gay brothers and sisters tap their feet, waiting impatiently. Well, then, hurry...
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Incomplete
Barack Obama “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.” [Meanwhile, his gay brothers and sisters tap their feet, waiting impatiently. Well,...
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19-Jan-1325-Feb-26Uncategorized
The political consequences of academic paywalls
The political consequences of academic paywalls “The suicide of Aaron Swartz, the activist committed to making scholarly research accessible to everyone, has renewed debate about the ethics of academic publishing. Under the current system, academic research is housed in scholarly databases, which charge as much as $50 per article to those without a university affiliation....
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Academic Paywall Monetization Kills
The political consequences of academic paywalls “The suicide of Aaron Swartz, the activist committed to making scholarly research accessible to everyone, has renewed debate about the ethics of academic publishing. Under the current system, academic research is housed in scholarly databases, which charge as much as $50 per article to those without a university affiliation....
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14-Jan-1325-Feb-26Uncategorized
by AirBeagleArcanthus Scolds His Darkmoon Monkey for Being a Very Bad Monkey on the Faire’s Boardwalk. That was one pissed-off gnome.