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Thursday, December 17, 2020

American Exceptionalism Died on Trump's Lying Lips

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  In an essay on Socrates, Hannah Arendt says Socrates wanted all of us to be at peace within ourselves: as much as possible our inner self ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

The Best Bicycle Racer I Know is the Most Humble

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  Barry Free and I when I extended my Army enlistment for the last time. Today I went to the doctor for a routine visit. It was an hour befo...
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Friday, December 11, 2020

Conventional Wisdom is not Always Wise

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  Are there phrases that cause you pain whenever you hear them?  All my life I have heard phrases taken as conventional wisdom that are blun...
Friday, December 4, 2020

Confident Military Walk: Apparently My Default Setting

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  So much of who we are is what we do. When I went to the hospital to visit my son Nigel the day after he was admitted, I smiled to myself ...
Thursday, December 3, 2020

Field Guide to Flying Death, Armor-Piercing Ammo

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A Soviet-built tank destroyed by an armor piercing round. The tank in the picture above was destroyed by a cannon round that had no explosiv...
Sunday, November 29, 2020

We Like the Hospital

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Nigel and I had Thanksgiving dinner together in his room.   Mine is in the paper plate in the foreground.   My son Nigel has been in the hos...
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Sunday, November 22, 2020

The Movies in Paris

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  A year ago on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, I drove southwest of Paris on a cold, cloudy day to visit the Circuit de Sarthe, the site of...