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Daily Archives: December 6th, 2009

A question of semantics

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Max Baucus has a girlfriend. John Ensign has a mistress. This engendered some lively discussion around our breakfast table this morning. I took the position that the usages are correct. A mistress, to my way of thinking, is the paramour of a married man. “Married” in the sense that the other person in that marriage […]

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Take two Our Fathers and see me in the morning

Sunday, December 6, 2009

In an oddly named article (To a Divisive Debate, Now Add Religion ) the Times relates that the Christian Scientists have now gotten into the act on health care. I say the article is oddly named, because of I’m not mistaken, religion has been dividing the debate on health care for months now, with the […]

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It begins-the Christmas Season, that is

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Some months ago my wife and I signed up for a bus trip to New York sponsored by the Groton Rec Department, which trip occurred yesterday. The fates decreed that the 5th of December should be a miserable day. To rub it in, it was sandwiched between two glorious fall days. Such is life. We […]

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