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Showing posts with label 500. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 500. Show all posts
Sunday, June 30, 2024

In Terror of Ducatis on Sestriere: My First Climb in the Italian Alps

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In 2000, I made the first several climbs up to the Sestriere ski resort .  It was a beautiful September day as I toiled the seven-mile clim...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

How to Tell If You're a Left Anti-Semite: A Checklist by Ben Wittes of Lawfare

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The last few weeks have been rough. Your Jewish friends have been extra needy. It’s not enough that you support their right to own land and ...
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Friday, May 26, 2023

Hannah Arendt Center Summer Social: Preview of Fall Conference on Friendship and Politics

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This week I went to the Summer Social at the Hannah Arendt Center on the campus of Bard College .  The campus is set in rolling wooded hill...
Monday, July 11, 2022

Tank Museum Designed as a Warning: Panzer Museum East, Denmark

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Most military museums, particularly tank museums, display the best and most lethal weapons of their country. Part of the intent of these mus...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

50th Anniversary of My First Enlistment is This Month

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  Twas the night before Basic, and I drank way too much.  I have no photos from my Air Force enlistment. Fifty years ago today I arrived at ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Bungee Cord Repair Lasts 2,400 Miles

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2021 Nissan Altima plus six bungee cords Last Friday my son Nigel and I left Lancaster at 8:30 p.m. to drive to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He w...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

"Le Grand Remplacement"--Great Replacement Theory Began in France and Became the Trump Call to Arms

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Le Grand Remplacement came to America as "Great Replacement Theory," the belief that Jews are  replacing white people with brown p...
Monday, October 5, 2020

Rural Drivers Hating Bicyclists is Nothing New

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In 2004, a bicycle hater with the unlikely name John F. Kennedy threw tacks on the road when he knew bicyclists would run over them and get ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

When Walking I Don't Get Angry: Cycling is Different

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Slowly healing.  Today I saw the surgeon who put my arm back together with plates and screws  and considerable skill.  Tomorrow I begin...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Wives and Mothers Will Rip Trump a New Asshole

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Trump has dodged many bullets in his deplorable term as President, but he won't get out of this line of fire.  Military wives and mot...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

Corona Movie Five: Kelly's Heroes

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Donald Sutherland as "Oddball" My youngest son and I have been watching movies every other day the past week and a half. Th...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

"Go Take a Flying Fuck at a Rolling Doughnut!" -- Kurt Vonnegut

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    In a touching scene in the movie “Ford v Ferrari” Carroll Shelby, a Texan, tells a boy who lost his father in a racing accident, “Y...