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Summer Hammer Coming Down
Today, somehow, seemed appropriately the start of summer (though summer doesn’t officially start for another week and a half). Yesterday, the heat was hot, but it didn’t feel oppressive and exhausting. Today, it felt that way — I left the house at 9.30 and the heat and humidity were already stifling, and there wasn’t the…
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Burn Them All!
It’s great how «this list» equates John Dewey, Betty Friedan, Friedrich Nietzsche, John Maynard Keynes, Mao Zedong, and Adolf Hitler. Such heartwarming catholicity is a rare find these days. Why isn’t Catcher in the Rye on the list? Are the book burners asleep on the job? [Link courtesy «Bifurcated Rivets».]
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On Memorial Day
On Memorial Day, I always think back to 1989, when as a newspaper reporter, I was privileged to meet a great group of heroes: Memory Of WWII Still Vivid For Vets (Part I of the Wake Island Story) ‘Considering the power accumulated for the invastion of Wake Island and the meager forces of the defenders,…
