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Monday, October 18, 2021

Colin Powell, an Arduous Road to Great Success

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  In 1958, when Colin Powell was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army, the former slave states still had Jim Crow laws in effect and...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

Field Guide to Flying Death: With Gunships, Slower is Better

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  AC130 Gunship in the air and on the ground  Air support for troops in the Vietnam War began with the latest and fastest jets of the 1960s....
Monday, October 11, 2021

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel: The Book and the Musical

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  Two weeks ago I saw the musical "Fun Home" an adaptation of a memoir of the same name by Alison Bechdel.  A week later, I starte...
Saturday, October 9, 2021

Thinking and Feeling: The Inside, Outside Difference

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  The past and the future are infinite and meet at the moment we are thinking.  Our thinking can reach into infinity. A friend recently post...
Saturday, October 2, 2021

The Taliban are not Medieval

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  Chartres Cathedral During the flurry of worry as we abandoned an ally to barbarism, many commentators and social media "experts"...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Everybody Hates Jews

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Honestly by Bari Weiss, a new podcast  One of my favorite new podcasts is Honestly  by Bari Weiss.  She was a columnist at the New York Time...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Hunting Magic Eels and the Search for Spiritual Reality

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Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age by Richard Beck  In one of my book groups, the one where we read and discu...