Friday, March 16, 2012

Seeking wisdom from Yoko? Really?

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I’ve for better than three months been engaged in a tawdry process that always leaves me feeling small. Yet its pull is irresistible. Yes,...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

"Death to evil American savages!" a diplomat's take

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The diplomat in me discerned a rhetorical breakthrough in the Afghani protests over the wanton slaying of 16 of their innocents. Less care...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Let Woody be Woody: Harrelson flicks & others

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Didn’t see HBO’s “Game Change” because we don’t have HBO. Would have rushed to order it if any of the show promos had hinted it included Woo...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Daylight Savings Time annoying AND deadly

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It may come as a surprise to sophisticated readers, but the inspirational soundtrack for these posts is often the morning farm report. ...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Re-Run Sunday: In praise of profanity

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Consider this a mission statement: I enjoy swearing and often tell my daughters there are no bad works, only bad times to say some words. Jo...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Candidate families play "staring" role in creepy admiration

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This primary season has convinced me one of the great disqualifying attributes for normal Americans is that we have no one who’ll stare ador...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Honked off about Egyptian nose jobs

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I’m feeling optimistic about budding Egyptian democracy after reading that a member of parliament resigned in shame after it was revealed he...