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Category Archives: Ruminations
Goodbye Senator Byrd. Be glad you missed the news today.
One of the faceless commentators talking during the solemn carrying of Senator Robert Byrd’s coffin this morning observed that the most significant thing about the late Senator’s tenure is the enormous social change on his long watch. Byrd himself exemplified that change, moving from membership in the Ku Klux Klan as a young West Virginian [...]
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A comforting nugget of wisdom.
From the New York Times obit for Chris Haney, co-creator of Trivial Pursuit: “Mr. Haney fought and won a 13-year legal battle against a man who said he had given him the idea for Trivial Pursuit when Mr. Haney picked him up hitchhiking. He won another suit against an author who claimed that Mr. Haney [...]
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Relief.
What I miss least: Having to play it cool or bluff my way through. Proof: –It really doesn’t matter that I can’t divide fractions. –Running the quarter-mile in less than 60 seconds just one time was enough. —The daily newspaper’s big front-page correction on my city council story is buried in a microfiche drawer in [...]
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Meth trash? That goes in the blue bin, right?
We’re always a little behind the curve when it comes to controlling dangerous-stuff-while-driving behavior. We wait until a lot of cars blow up (Corvair, Pinto) or take off on their own (Toyota) or roll over (early SUVs) before we regulate ‘em. We get all pissy toward people (Ralph Nader in the ’60s) who try to [...]
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77 Words: “Natural Elements” by Richard Mason
For more “77 words,” click here. “Natural Elements” by Richard Mason (Knopf, 2008) – The impulse to read this novel slowly to savor it belies its plot: A mother and daughter in contemporary London, each adjusting in her own way to the older woman’s move to a nursing home. Mason has a bold, uncanny ability [...]
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And it’s E-Book on the rail…and E-book wins it!