I do not plan to watch or listen to the Inauguration festivities live on Friday. This is an easy choice to make. I’ll be at work in a cube farm on Friday, and I don’t particularly like to use earphones. I may listen to the oldies station on the drive home. If I do pay …
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Nov 19 2016
Wednesday Morning
I admit that I am not into rap. The beats are unoriginal and the music is too electronic for my ears. Many of the lyrics are not consistent with my core convictions, to say the least. The female rappers, what few there are, sound as if they’re yodeling around some of the notes rather than …
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Nov 09 2016
The Morning After
As Buffalo Bills fans know all too well, it’s a lot easier to be gracious in victory than in defeat. And so it is this morning. I went to bed before the final results were in on Election Night, believing that finishing Oliver Sacks’s autobiography would be a more pleasant way to spend the evening. …
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Nov 07 2016
One.Day.More
Tomorrow is Election Day. With luck, our long national nightmare will soon be over. This campaign has taken a toll on families and friendships. Soon we won’t have to deal with negative ads – for at least a few weeks. Washington State has a couple of quirks to its election system. We have a top-two …
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Jul 17 2016
Acting out of Fear
After the attack in France last week, one of my best friends encouraged me to avoid Nice later this year. My mother asked yet again, “You’re really still going to France?” Mercifully, my sister did not ask the same thing when I talked to her today. I know they’re speaking from concern for our welfare. …
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Jul 09 2016
About Last Week
“People have become educated, but have yet to become human.” — Abdul Sattar Edhi I saw this quote in a New York Times obituary for this gentleman, who was the Pakistani “Father Teresa.” It sums up my feelings this morning. Just when the horror of the Orlando shootings had dissipated slightly, we had two police …
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Jun 13 2016
I Shouldn’t Have to Write This
Another day, another mass shooting with a military-style assault rifle. The shooting in Orlando was different in scale and target than the others. Forty-nine people in a gay nightclub were gunned down in a horrific three-hour siege. The police managed to drive an armored vehicle through the wall of the club and kill the gunman …
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May 28 2016
Hail, Hail, Dystopia!
Some of my friends in the Friday Night Follies crew are fond of reading books and watching television series on dystopian futures. Fans of Game of Thrones are into dystopian pasts. What, the dystopian present isn’t bad enough???
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Jan 17 2016
Democratic Debate Drinking Game Postmortem
It’s a good thing I didn’t participate. Donald Trump would have given me an epic hangover. He was mentioned more than any of the other terms combined.
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