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Friday, November 01, 2024

Vote No on Trump

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Donald Trump notoriously refused to have a second debate against Kamala Harris -- perhaps because polls and critics overwhelmingly thought h...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

The F Word

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Nope, not that one. I mean fascism.  Not all readers may know what that term means or implies, historically. Most have a vague idea that the...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Immigration and Crime

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I participated in a panel in my department today on Foreign Policy and the 2024 election . I talked about NATO and climate change -- with th...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Firsts

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Here are 2 striking paragraphs from a (free access)  column by Kate Cohen in the WaPo earlier this month : When [Kamala] Harris was born, 60...
Sunday, October 06, 2024

Republicans for Harris

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In late August more than 235 Republicans who describe themselves as "alumni" of the campaigns or presidencies of George H.W. Bus...
Friday, October 04, 2024

Trump's Violent Fantasies

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Donald Trump is back to his habit of fantasizing about the government (under his leadership) using illegal violence against criminals, immig...
Sunday, September 08, 2024

Golden Championship Era

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With the KC Royals now likely to make the baseball playoffs and the defending champion KC Chiefs opening the 2024 football season with a vi...
Saturday, September 07, 2024

Dick Cheney is Voting for Kamala Harris

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney has often been criticized on this blog. However, the Cheney family agrees with me about the threat Donald ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

MIchigan Travel (and Beer) update

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Note: This is an update/revision  of an older post. October 4, 2024, update: we returned to Michigan for fall break, so I'm editing this...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Portland

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In July, my spouse and I traveled to Portland to link with our youngest daughter (and her boyfriend). While out there we also saw my spouse...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Canadian Film Festival

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In late May my spouse and I drove to Canada and attended the Blue Mountain Film Festival at the ski resort just outside of Collingwood. From...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

Blood of Angels

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Until tonight, I think the last film I saw in a theater was "Little Women," which would have been December 2019 -- in Long Island,...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

2024A Louisville Sluggers

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This post is going to highlight the fantasy baseball team I've built for the first half (A) season of the OBFLB (Original Bitnet Fantasy...