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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...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Street Numbers Freeze History

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  In Lancaster County, the roads from Lancaster City to the outer boroughs radiate in every direction, a hub and spoke system like the Germa...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Benetton and the End of Communism and Cigarette Ads

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  At the beginning of the 1980s, the winning cars in Formula 1 racing were billboards for cigarettes and oil companies.  The Marlboro McLare...
Monday, May 8, 2023

Pissing Contest: Real and Metaphorical

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Between birth and enlisting in the U.S. Air Force, I had two addresses. Both in the town of Stoneham nine miles north of Boston. The first w...
Thursday, May 4, 2023

Nothing Ever Dies: Re-Reading a Haunting Book About War and it's Aftermath

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I am re-reading the book Nothing Ever Dies  because I first enlisted during the war in Vietnam 51 years ago and this book holds a mirror to ...
Friday, April 28, 2023

The Spark in the Machine: A fascinating book about the science behind acupuncture

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  I am more than halfway through reading The Spark in the Machine: How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine...
Saturday, April 22, 2023

Three Score and Ten: Second Life Begins This Year

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In the first Canto of the  Divine Comedy  Dante Aligheri tells us he is 35 years old because he is "In the middle of life's journey...
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