Eric the Blue
Mostly politics, sports, literature, arts reviews
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Bought a copy of the Minneapolis daily paper yesterday for the first time in a couple of decades. I think I could have read every word, excluding the sports box scores and the ads regarding mortgage foreclosures, in around an hour and a half. Is it always so skimpy? The sports box scores did not…
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Probably it would be prudent for me to stay off of social media when events in my stomping grounds are the lead story in international news reports, and not for the first time in recent memory. But being a boomer, I occasionally peruse what my kids derisively refer to as BoomerBook, and unfortunately cannot give…
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Shoveling snow. Watching sports on TV. Ubering teens to their New Year’s parties. Debating with myself whether to be asleep at midnight or stay up till my young reveler is delivered home by someone else’s dad. In short, living life all the way up. According to the actuarial charts, I have maybe 15 years left,…
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Jewish gal insists she and her people don’t hate Christmas: May your Christmas holiday be beneficial, even if you celebrate.
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Ah, made it to winter break, which means this year that I get a reprieve from overhearing 10-year-olds talk among themselves about ICE. Attendance is down and it’s not all the flu. People are lying low. Our weekly newsletter implores parents to keep sending their kids to school, and to contact the office with concerns–we…
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I understand that some people, as a kind of morbid hobby, scan the obits and impulsively read the ones for fresh decedents younger than themselves. It occurred to me today, while hacking at the 2 tons of crusty snow the plow left at the bottom of my driveway, that the audience for mine is dwindling.…
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In Patriotic Gore, his book on literary figures of the Civil War, Edmund Wilson writes that, “with the possible exception of Edgar Allan Poe,” no American has been the subject of more “romantic and sentimental rubbish” than our sixteenth president. The villain here is Carl Sandburg, whose multivolume biography of Lincoln I dimly remember occupying…
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I’m kind of amused–a better person would probably be repulsed–by all the mincing words applied to the Trump administration’s crimes in the Caribbean. If (the details are as reported), then (there might be a legal problem), etc. Either we’re at war with Venezuela or we’re not. If as seems clear to me we’re not, then…
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I’ve been at Spanish Duolingo for long enough now that I feel sort of confident about being able to ask for directions to the museum, the train station, and the hotel. I’m to the point that Duo has me considering sentences that pertain as much to the human condition as that of a mere tourist.…
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Did not foresee that the Dems, having won every single election in a walk, would conclude that their next move should be to fold faster than a card player holding eighty per cent of a flush. “I believe there are a number of Republicans who are going to join us in trying to address health…
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