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Sunday, March 13, 2022

"Scalia/Ginsburg," an Opera in One Act--So Much Fun

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  Today I went to the Gardner theater at Lancaster Country Day School , the K-12 school of two of my six kids, and saw the one-act opera ...
Monday, March 7, 2022

Prisoners of Geography, Published in 2015, Relevant Right Now! Book 11 of 2022

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  Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics   by Tim Marshall. Sometimes a book title...
Friday, March 4, 2022

Bad Religion Kills Good People

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The book "Prisoners of Geography" by Tim Marshall begins, "Vladimir Putin says he is a religious man, a great supporter of t...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Flying with No ID

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  Today my son Nigel was flying to the east coast and had an ID that said "Not for use as Federal Identification." I had not gotte...
Monday, February 28, 2022

War and Wooden Shoes

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Sabot is one of the names for the wooden shoe that in the Lexicon of War. One of the reports I heard about the Invasion of Ukraine talked ab...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Waterloo: A Visit to the Museum and Battlefield

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  On a cold, clear, windy afternoon earlier this month I visited the museum and battlefield of Waterloo, Belgium: the scene of the final def...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

1776 by David McCullough: Book 9 of 2022

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  I bought this book more than a year ago. A friend who teaches literature said he has read this book every couple of years for more than a ...