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Growing up with music

Posted on March 3, 2026March 4, 20260 comment

I can’t play any musical instrument, though I can, and do, often, whistle.  Whistling has greatly influenced the kind of music I like.  I mean,…

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Science triumphant: Yes, it’s Pluto!

Posted on July 13, 20150 comment

Who ever thought, even a few years ago, that we’d ever have anything as cool as a detailed photograph of Pluto’s surface?  Hell, even the…

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Greece: Back to the Drachma

Posted on June 30, 20150 comment

When I was taking a college course back in the late 80s, the professor asked us to write opinion pieces for publication in “a European…

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Uh oh.  I’m evolving.

Posted on May 27, 20150 comment

What, me vote for a Republican? Maybe, maybe Rand Paul.  There are a lot of ‘ifs’ — if  he repudiates the anti-environmentalism of the GOP if  he makes it clear that…

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A list of records — yes, records — all white men own (and if you claim not to own these, you are lying.)

Posted on May 15, 2015May 15, 20150 comment

The definitive list. 1. After You’ve Gone (Benny Goodman) 2. If I Love Again (Artie Shaw) 3. Somewhere a Voice is Calling (John McCormick) 4.…

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Good book

Posted on May 10, 20150 comment

Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was a tremendously enlightening book. Most of us know…

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I love this song.

Posted on November 28, 20140 comment

Green Isle of Erin, by Frank Ryan. 1937.

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Stick to the Core.

Posted on May 4, 2014May 4, 20140 comment

Since I wrote this (five months ago as of this writing) more arguments have been added to the four I here enumerate.   The opposition is…

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Minimum wage?

Posted on December 31, 2013December 31, 20130 comment

Emmett J. Hoops· Minimum wage laws rigidify urban poverty. Picture this: You get $8.50/hr. in a town where you can buy a house for $60,000.…

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This Pope

Posted on December 7, 20130 comment

Pope Francis isn’t a bad fellow at all. I know that today we’re expected to dissect every public figure to find out what isn’t all-good…

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