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We get letters

Monday, July 12, 2010

What was at first a trickle has now become something of a flood. A few weeks ago my wife got a mailing from a right wing organization of some sort. These things happen, and we assumed it was just an anomaly. However, since then missives from the right wingers have been appearing with ever more […]

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Feeling empathy

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Too hot to think. Now I know what it’s like to be a Republican.

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So considerate

Thursday, June 17, 2010

From a notice I just received from my insurance company: Over the past several years, changes in coverage such as special deductibles that apply only to the perils of windstorm and/or hurricane have been implemented as part of our overall effort to provide you with the best protection at the lowest reasonable cost. So good […]

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Weekend events

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Yesterday I was attending reunion activities at Swarthmore, my wife’s alma mater. She was there in the halcyon days of the sixties. Just after lunch the class met with a retiring philosophy professor, who had over the years, transformed from a fire breathing SDS advising radical to a far more conservative and clearly conflicted individual. […]

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Backyard drama

Sunday, May 23, 2010

I was doing what I do best on Sundays-reading a book on the patio-when I heard some squawking from the vicinity of an Alberta Spruce about 10 feet from the chaise on which I was reclining. I glanced over and there were two robins making a rather determined effort to take down a chipmunk, who […]

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A surprising fact

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, and as all the world knows, motherhood, along with baseball and apple pie, is a peculiarly American value. For reasons that are unclear, the rest of the world is apparently hostile to motherhood, particularly, as it turns out, the Italians, who are producing fewer mothers than any other country on earth, […]

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Best comment ever?

Friday, April 2, 2010

Yesterday, for reasons both too complicated and boring to explain, one of my posts, without my knowledge, ended up being posted twice. The subject of the post was Obama’s repetition on the energy front of the search for “bi-partisanship” that worked out so well (snark) on the health care front. So the post was repetitive […]

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Hey, what happened to my tax increase?

Sunday, March 28, 2010

I spent most of my day at the keyboard, punching numbers into Turbo Tax. Last year we ended up paying both state and federal, so my wife and I increased our withholding, by about enough where we figured we would get a modest refund. Well, it’s higher than we thought, thanks in part to Obama […]

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The Downside of Blogging

Thursday, March 18, 2010

I just spent about an hour writing a post which started out as a brilliant idea, but slowly ripened, or should I say decayed, into a piece of crap. Into the draft heap it went, probably never to be resurrected. Political punditry is just no fun these days. I am hoping that the eventual passage […]

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Easy for you to say

Friday, February 12, 2010

As least several times a week I get spam comments, which I must consign to perdition. I don’t know how they are generated, whether by live person or by computer. I normally just delete them, but this one I have to promote, since it appears, to the best of my ability to understand it, to […]

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