Thursday, August 15, 2019

Thursday's Place: The Cleveland Museum of Art

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 I have grown fatigued with people who: 1.  Think surfing is a weird thing for a man in his 60's to do 2.  Are snobs about going o...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Wow, They're Really Serious about Gun Control This Time

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Democrats this week approved legislation to require background checks for essentially all sales and transfers of firearms -- but rejected GO...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Yeah

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The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And ...

As Politicians and Media Balkanize Us, This is Becoming More Common

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Three Men Attacked On Their Way to Synagogue, As Renewed Spate of Assaults Targets Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn Don’t worry, NYC. Your mayor ...

Dichotomy Alert

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Buses are okay; science not so much Hang on, the same people who want me to embrace every random doom and gloom environmental theory be...

Not to Be a Cynic, But Lies are the First Language of Politics

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On Friday afternoon, two of the leading contenders in the Democratic presidential primary lied. There’s no other fair way to put it. They fl...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Which Makes It Even More Puzzling That People Want to Give the Government More and More Power Over Their Lives

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Death in Federal Custody, the Suicide of Federal Government Credibility

Our Post-Christian Reality

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Emil Durkheim’s 1897 diagnosis of “anomic suicide” describes the Columbine perpetrators as well as the 2016 San Bernardino attack by Muslim ...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

"Common Sense" Gun Control and the Address of Mental Illness are Not Mutually Exclusive

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Mental illness and mass murder  To acknowledge the role of mental disturbance is not to take a position one way or the other about guns an...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

Now, That's a Correction

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If you don't subscribe to The Washington Post and have used up your free articles for this month, this is unfortunately behind their pa...
Friday, August 9, 2019

Rocky Colavito

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"You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it's losing." If you have never done so, at least once before you d...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Thursday's Place: Caffe Trieste

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It's not a very prepossessing place, although the places featured on Thursdays rarely are.  That lack of pretension is probably wha...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Moral Lectures in the Post-Christian Age

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The Washington Post demands that you refrain from eating meat for the rest of your life so that your conspicuous consumption will not DESTR...

Meet the Mother of Privilege

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I notice that a leitmotif in the coming election cycle, that opportunity that politicians give us every few years to feel guilty and miserab...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Really Bad "Woke" Ad Campaign > Millennials

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Millennials are killing the razor industry with their trendy beards  Oh, please.  My generation, you know, it included the ones who went ...
Monday, August 5, 2019

Ohio. Michigan. Whatever.

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Biden offers sympathy for the ‘tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan’ Also, Houston?  Ah, close enough. Oh, look. None of ...

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The True Face of "Green"

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An electric car being recharged at an electric station that is powered by...a diesel generator This feeds the suspicion that electric v...

Some Stray Observations on Our Societal Reality

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People smarter than I are beginning to notice that many mass shooting incidents [i.e. murders] are of a different nature in our social media...

Dear Grandpa, Thanks for Leaving the U.K.

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Oh, great.  Moral lectures from another collection of thick, priveleged puzzlewits: ‘Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George.’ Ok, ...