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Showing posts with label 100. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 100. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

The Remains of the Day – Two Readings, Two Shadows

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro  Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day is, on the surface, a beautifully restrained novel about...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Virgil Got Eternally Screwed: Review of Dante’s Purgatorio (Mark Musa Translation)

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Dante’s Purgatorio , in contrast with the fire and fury of Inferno and Roman splendor of Paradiso , is the canticle of hope. It is the most...
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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

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W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz is a novel built on the slow recovery of memory. Rather than unfolding in a straight line, the story emerges throu...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

A Man Called Intrepid: How Intelligence Kept Britain Alive in World War II

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  William Stevenson’s A Man Called Intrepid tells the story of Sir William Stephenson, the Canadian who became Britain’s intelligence chief...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Talking Electric Cars in a Rural Massachusetts Restaurant

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  I'm in Providence RI for the week.  My wife is at a math conference. I am riding and visiting friends here and in Boston.  Yesterday I...
Monday, August 11, 2025

RFK Jr. Has Turned Fake Science into America's Reality

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If Trump did nothing more than appoint RFK Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary, Trump would be the worst President in American Histor...
Monday, August 4, 2025

"Colossus" at 20: How Niall Ferguson's American Empire Became Reality

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  Colossus  by Niall Ferguson (2005) The Republic Is Dead. Long Live the Empire. In Colossus , Niall Ferguson strips away the post–Cold War ...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

Death Camp Visits Resume: Treblinka and the Warsaw Ghetto

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Memorial at Treblinka Death Camp in Poland In November, I will resume my visits to Nazi Death Camps. This time I will travel with my friend ...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger

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  In My Time of Dying  is the fifth book I have read by Sebastian Junger since I met him almost a year ago. He was the opening keynote spe...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

I Dumped T-Mobile Because of Their Extreme Roamer Policy

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  I was a fan of T-Mobile even before I was a customer. Until this year I had very  reliable service fromT-Mobile.   Then I ran afoul of the...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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I grew up near the sea, several miles from the Atlantic Ocean north of Boston.  While the sea was always near, it was also remote for me. Ou...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

My Never-Published Pittsburgh Post-Gazette OpEd

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I wrote this article at the request of David Mills of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  It was never published.  I wrote the article after readi...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

My FM Metal Music Life in the Early 70s

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December 19, 1969, I got my  driver's license. I was so happy with that monumental event that I have celebrate the anniversary of my dri...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Seeking Purpose for Life is Dangerous--Just Live: The transcript.

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Yogi Sadhguru Here is the link to my first post after hearing a talk by Yogi Sadhguru on YouTube.  All around us, those who seek a God-given...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Ukraine Attacks Russian Air Force--Destroys 40 Bombers

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  In a brilliant and daring raid Ukraine destroyed 40 Russian strategic bombers and other high-value aircraft.  Over the past 18months, Ukra...
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Thursday, May 29, 2025

The Bureaucrat of Death: Adolf Eichmann and the Machinery of the Holocaust

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(This post is edited and improved by ChatGPT. The original version is here .)  In 1932, Adolf Eichmann was an unemployed Austrian drifting t...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

First Car Purchase in Twenty Years (And a ChatGPT experiment)

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  A New Prius and a Lifetime of Vehicles Today, my wife and I bought a 2017 Toyota Prius. It replaces our old 2001 Prius, which we donated ...
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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Ten Countries I Want to Visit

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  Mount Fuji, Japan My travel is mostly guided by opportunities.  For instance, in the fall, I plan to meet two friends in Europe and travel...
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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Flying to the USA Today--With an Unusual Travel Accessory (for me)

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Today the nine-month sojourn in Panama ends with two flights back to the USA.  Because the trip was really a temporary move, I had a very un...
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