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With A Straight Face
The New York Times, April 28, 2012: Presidents running for re-election typically boast of programs they created, people they helped or laws they signed. They talk about rising test scores or falling d… more →
The Edge of the American West
Current Mood: Secondhand White Baby Grand
wrote 2 days ago: I’m still feeling a bit gloomy and shaking the shock and the fear and the worry off my system. … more →
With A Straight Face
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wrote 1 month ago: The New York Times, April 28, 2012: Presidents running for re-election typically boast of programs t … more →
Little Boxes
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wrote 1 month ago: The intersection of 195th Street and 58th Avenue, Queens, NY, in 1941: And today: View Larger Map … more →
Wise words from "The Iron Lady"
wrote 1 month ago: This post is quite delayed. I watched ‘The Iron Lady’ starring Meryl Streep. And while I … more →
USS Lyndon B. Johnson
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wrote 1 month ago: Following up to this article, the Navy has continued its streak of not naming carriers after Democra … more →
What One Ancient Greek Doctor Knew About the Brain
wrote 1 month ago: Hippocrates “Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laugh … more →
Paging Mr. Kafka
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wrote 1 month ago: The Transportation Security Agency, in all its glory: A spokesman said the agency has its reasons fo … more →
"Hmm. At UC Davis you get an F if you're not gay."
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wrote 1 month ago: “That’s a shocking infographic.” … more →
Tim McGrew on Easter
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wrote 1 month ago: Have a listen. (12 min) … more →
Rupert in red.
wrote 2 months ago: The incomparable Michelle Vaughan, who did the typography for this marvelous piece of work as well a … more →
The Iron Harvest
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wrote 2 months ago: Leftover ordnance is one of the legacies that lasts generations after the war itself concluded. The … more →
Tech support.
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wrote 2 months ago: A reader reports the below glitch displaying this blog on iPhones. I don’t get it with mine. D … more →
Some lying, some exceptions.
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wrote 2 months ago: I’ve probably never said this here before, but having finished my book on Sand Creek, I’ … more →
Enhance…enhance…
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wrote 2 months ago: Amelia Earhart, still sought after 75 years: Ric Gillespie is executive director of The Internationa … more →
No Lying, No Exceptions
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wrote 2 months ago: Understand that if you felt something that connected you with where your devices come from — t … more →
politics vs. rock 'n' roll
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wrote 2 months ago: Johnny Ramone: One night, the New York Dolls were hanging out there. They were already a band, but I … more →
The Really Iron Lady.
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wrote 2 months ago: Speaking to a crowd of supporters, Margaret Thatcher, as played by Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady, ex … more →
"Germany of all places".
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wrote 2 months ago: John Demjanjuk has died. Reuters: “Former Nazi guard Demjanjuk dies in Germany aged 91” … more →
Measuring Afghanistan
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wrote 2 months ago: Repurposing a comment I made in this thread, I thought I would run a chart of American military fata … more →
