Akin Breakin’ Heart
2012-08-24 – Before the Todd Akin story gets washed away by the next outrage, I’d like to make a couple of points. First has to do with the complete absurdity […]
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Sports Metaphor
2012-08-22 – I was not an athletic kid, which is too bad. I swam a lot and rode my bike, but not at the level of an athlete. My […]
The Morning Star
2012-08-20 – On the Jewish calendar, this is the month of Elul. I don’t really keep track of Jewish months in the same way that I know, every day, what […]
Iowa Girls
2012-08-18 – Met two girls while we were in Iowa. The first girl was a waitress in one of those small towns whose boundaries are marked by a sequence of […]
Three-Legged Dog
2012-08-16 – For the last week or so, I’ve been seeing a three-legged dog during my morning walk to the train. It’s not immediately apparent that the dog only has […]
Mars Hoax Bares Warming Truth
2012-08-14 – After a week of increasingly implausible denials, NASA today admitted that its dramatic reports about landing a space probe on the planet Mars were a hoax. NASA Administrator […]
Next Week’s Laundry
2012-08-12 – I’m not sure when I first became aware of Pete Seeger, but it couldn’t have been any later than the Summer of 1969, because that’s when I bought […]
CEOs and Fire-fighters
2012-08-11 – What do CEOs and firefighters have in common? If you said they both take big risks, you’d be wrong. Firefighters do take big risks, but CEOs don’t, for […]
Hail to the Chef
2012-08-10 – Wednesday night we ate at GT Fish and Oyster, a River North restaurant where my son Chef Nathaniel just got his first job since graduating from Le Cordon […]
A Real Post for Blog Day
2012-08-09 – Today, 8/09/2012, is launch day for my reconstituted blog. I’ve done three posts to give you some basic information about the blog. This fourth post is my first […]
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