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Carpe Diem: 2020.08.23 UDDERLY MIRACULOUS
Christians in upper Minnesota are ecstatic over the discovery of a very convincing image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, on the right flank of a Holstein dairy cow
Carpe Diem: 2020.08.13 SPORT AND STATE
Sports, professional and amateur, are currently consumed with the limitations on their conduct presented by a virus that flourishes in the environment of sweaty bodies and puffing lungs.
Vol.107.7: A BOMBS
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Exactly 75 years ago today the Enola Gay released the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. I was five years old at the time, but over the years I’ve read a shelf full of books on
Vol.107.6: TOWARD A PROPER EXPLETIVE (a reprise)
Back in 2006 there was the Michael Richards incident. Since I never watched Seinfeld, I had no idea who
Vol.107.5: COPS AND UNEASY STREETS
In obvious deference to the widespread civil disturbances in America’s cities ignited this time by the heinous murder of African-American George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Force,
Vol.107.4: POLICING THE ROBOCOPS
The pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong refer to their police as the “po-po,” a rather innocent-sounding sobriquet for a force that has unfortunately transmogrified into a militarily outfitted
Carpe Diem: 2020.05.31 Pandemic Inklings
Disgust and Dissolution in the Time of Covid
I don’t like waking up each day with feelings of contempt for my own country. About four decades ago I quietly dumped (when I did my last “Easter
Carpe Diem: 2020.05.20 Pandemic Inklings
What Do They Want?
It is ironic that in the Martian invasion that took place in the original War of the Worlds scenario the invaders were vanquished by a human virus-like the coronavirus
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