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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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First time I ever heard the name Blaze Foley was here, in John Prine’s intro to “Clay Pigeons.” I knew “Clay Pigeons” but had always assumed Prine wrote it. How good must a song be for Prine to cover it?He’s got about a thousand great ones he wrote himself. Here’s Foley’s version. Prine refers to…
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Rediscovered last night how enjoyable watching election returns can be when you approve of the results. “In last year’s presidential election, Donald Trump carried Passaic County, but in tonight’s gubernatorial race it has gone for Democrat Mikie Sherrill by 57 to 42 percent.” Three vials more, please, and some hypodermic needles for the injections. I…
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I tuned in Game 7 of the World Series in order to test the hypothesis that “baseball is boring” and whoa! Just kidding, of course. Not about watching the game. I’m one of those who can’t answer the question about how I became a baseball fan, because as far as I know it predated my…
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The occasion for the above social media post by Mike Davis, a Trump enthusiast and former law clerk to Neil Gorsuch, is reporting about how the shutdown will end Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments starting November 1. I think I detect a whiff of racial bigotry and so would just like to point out…
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I vote for the Dems, so my car radio is tuned to NPR, naturally. (I also like lattes, and do not comprehend the appeal of NASCAR.) Older daughter drives now, and has her own car, so I don’t even have to switch to FM mode from a Taylor Swift CD. The sound of the engine…
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One thing about our president, he’s a hard working guy, always several boiling pots on the stove. What with the extra-judicial killings (sometimes referred to by the non-romantic as “murder”) on the high seas, his demo project at the White House, the subsequent construction of a tastefully understated “ballroom” that will of course need a…
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I went to the No Kings Protest in Minneapolis today. Wanted to add my body to the mass of people even more concerned than Susan Collins. I don’t know how big the crowd was. For sure big enough to cause traffic tie-ups in downtown for a few hours. Don’t blame me, I took the bus.…
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As a little kid, I was already a baseball fan, but my team was the Twins, and the National League was almost invisible to me. The Twins never played against Willie Mays, or Hank Aaron, or Bob Gibson, or Roberto Clemente, all of whom except Gibson, who was a rising star, were settled into the…
Eric the Blue 