Category Archives: In The News

Water, Water, Everywhere, Or Not.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

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It Happened At The County Fair

After reading an article about state fairs in the New York Times, I was reminded of the smells of a fair. It is a wholly unique aroma; part cotton candy, part funnel cake, part hot dogs, part candied apples, part … Continue reading

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Flunking Health 101

If you recall, there was a time when schools taught home ec and there was this odd activity called physical education, or at least recess where somebody threw a dodge ball at your head and you had to run and … Continue reading

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The Age Myth

A couple of years ago The New Yorker wrote a piece asking why genius is so inextricably tied up with precocity, citing many examples, among them Mozart, T.S. Elliot and Orson Welles. There are many more, and we know most … Continue reading

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Glamping

It’s camping with glamour. I read about it in Southern Living. Don’t give me that look. I read everything. So back to “Glamping.”

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Click, Click. Goodbye.

With every click online, we’re giving a piece of ourselves away. This sentence just cost me a little chunk of my humanity. The next few will bleed me further. It is happening to you too. Soon we’ll only be measured … Continue reading

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I Write Like

Jeff Johnson sent me a website I have not seen before. He is like a Google bot when it comes to rooting around the Web. It was featured on Holy Kow, Guy Kawasaki’s content aggregation site. The site purports to … Continue reading

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The Cost of War Versus the Cost of Health

It is hard to find anyone who agrees on what health care reform will cost, but the best estimate I’ve seen is $940 billion over ten years. Remember that number while I go to war. World War II cost the … Continue reading

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Riding the 4th of July Stretcher

Clear, blue skies pushed choking humidity to the last 20 feet above the crabgrass. That way, even tall people on a ladder or a drunk sitting in a lawn chair on top of his RV could feel it. Temps flirted … Continue reading

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Crime Pays. Death Pays. Fraud Pays Even Better.

The government sent more than $180 million in checks to dead people over the last three years according to the White House Office of Management and Budget. We also paid 14,000 felons in jail or running from the law. Add … Continue reading

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