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Sunday, July 28, 2024

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil  by Hannah Arendt seemed a very different book this year than when I first read it ...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Twenty Guns: A Sign of Mental Illness?

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  A fire-proof gun safe for pistols, long guns and ammo Available on Amazon... A very smart friend just posted that the father of the 20-yea...
Friday, July 19, 2024

Mundolingua: A Word Museum Paris

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Near Luxembourg Gardens in the 6th Arrondissement of Paris is Mundolingua  a museum of words: " Stacks of books and dictionaries share ...
Friday, July 12, 2024

So Many Mennonites on Bicycles!

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  Last Saturday, I was riding between Leola and New Holland in Lancaster County. On that five miles of PA Route 23 I saw more groups of Menn...
Friday, July 5, 2024

Moving to Panama--For a Year

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  The Panama Canal For the third time in my life, I will live in another country beginning on August 15.  My wife got a Fulbright grant to s...
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Sunday, June 30, 2024

In Terror of Ducatis on Sestriere: My First Climb in the Italian Alps

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In 2000, I made the first several climbs up to the Sestriere ski resort .  It was a beautiful September day as I toiled the seven-mile clim...
Friday, June 28, 2024

A Russian Journalist Defies Putin on War in Ukraine

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Zhanna Agalakova   Жа́нна Леони́довна Агала́кова Journalist working at Russian Channel One until the War in Ukraine Zhanna Agalakova has an ...