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Thursday, January 14, 2021

Are We in 1861 America or in 1991 Yugoslavia?

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  Insurgent mob declares war on America at the direction of  the President  on January 6, 2021. When the MAGA mob stormed the Capitol, were ...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

The Most Fun Book of 2020: "Tell Me Another One"

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Judith Newman At the end of 2019, before the pandemic, I was in the middle of a crowd of more than a thousand people in a big hall in Brookl...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

Book Report 2020: Best and Worst

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My favorite book of 2020 This year I am breaking my book list into pieces. This piece is Best and Worst books of 2020.  Each book was recomm...
Friday, January 1, 2021

Book Report 2020: Fiction

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The year 2020 brought a plague on the world, but was a bonanza for my life in books. I am part of a half dozen book groups, so I read books...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Book Report Preview in Pictures

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This year I read 50 books. I have not even started writing my 2020 book report, so I am making a preview in pictures: both a preview of the ...
Monday, December 21, 2020

Celebrating the 51st Anniversary of My Driver's with a 1,400-Mile, 44-Hour Trip

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On Thursday morning, December 17, my daughter Lisa sent me a text saying that should would be in Chicago on Saturday, December 19.  I had sa...
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 ...