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I’m not making any accusations, but…

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

My wife informs me that a certain corner of the tweetosphere is -well, all a twitter- about this post at the Atlantic. Everyone who’s anyone is linking to it. This has raised our ire, or at least our suspicions, because it is ever so similar to this post, to which I’ve linked in the past, […]

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Confederate History Month

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Now I know how John Stewart or Stephen Colbert must feel when all kinds of crazy things happen while they’re on vacation. Of course, politics being what they are in this nation, at this time, just about any week you pick is chock full of events proving beyond doubt that we are a nation infested […]

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A Good Witch

Sunday, May 3, 2009

When my kids were little my wife and I read most, if not all, of the Oz books to them, both those by the original author, L. Frank Baum, and by his successor, Ruth Plumly Thompson. So I was interested when I saw Finding Oz in my local bookstore. It’s a biography of Baum by […]

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Winston was good, but George (Washington, that is) was better

Thursday, April 30, 2009

There’s a bit of speculation going around about just which article Obama recently read about Winston Churchill’s anti-torture policy, with a recent Andrew Sullivan piece being among the top contenders. Apparently, there’s also a little push back, to the effect that the British may not have always stuck to their anti-torture policy. Well, we don’t […]

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Polish Pride

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Both of my sisters have sons who graduated, one from college, one from high school, this year. They decided to have a little joint celebration. Where better than a place where we could also celebrate half our heritage (one quarter and perhaps some minor fractions in the case of the kids): the Polish National Home. […]

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