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…today about the 2016 campaign. Isn’t that a relief? Although my fingers are just itching…
Continue reading →…today about the 2016 campaign. Isn’t that a relief? Although my fingers are just itching…
Continue reading →Remember that slogan, “repeal and replace”? There have actually been quite a few bills passed in the House to repeal Obamacare in the last couple of years, whether you’ve noticed it or not. Here’s an article about it from this … Continue reading →
I don’t know why—but today, as I was about to go to my computer, I thought, “I wonder if antibiotics can contribute to weight gain?” It makes a certain amount of sense as a possibility. After all, it’s long been … Continue reading →
I saw this trailer in the movie theater the other day and laughed out loud, especially at the sequence that starts at 1:51:
Continue reading →The poet Robert Frost, about whom I’ve written a good deal and whose Collected Works are pictured at the top of my blog, gave a great many campus talks in his day. I’m currently reading a book of excepts from … Continue reading →
Tiny New Hampshire is always a very volatile and difficult-to-predict state. Its Republican voters are also considered somewhat atypical; more libertarian-leaning, with fewer social conservatives and more fiscal conservatives. But it does have a primary that occurs early in the … Continue reading →
I’ve never much cared for the ballet “The Dying Swan.” It’s not really a ballet; more like a short vignette. It was choreographed by Mikhail Fokine near the turn of the century (19th-20th) as a vehicle for international star Anna … Continue reading →
Commenter “Ira” asks an interesting question—particularly for those among us who think that, if nominated, Donald Trump either would lose in the general or if elected would be a poor president (I happen to think both are true). Here’s what … Continue reading →
Greetings, 2016. Let’s be friends. My resolutions are the same as usual—which tells you how successful I am at keeping them. The first is to stay away from sugar for a couple of months and see how that goes (now … Continue reading →