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The inaugural poem
I must say, I listened to Amanda Gorman the very first National Youth Poet Laureate read her poem The Hill We Climb at President Biden’s inauguration and was inspired. Inspired to write this column, the poem was drivel. Correction, it … Continue reading
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Demonstration in DC, 1970
I’ve just been poring over the news accounts of the demonstrations in Washington, D.C. The demonstrations held on July 4, 1970 I mean. Because I was there. I was of course inspired by accounts of the current demonstrations. I was … Continue reading
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Las Vegas
Note: I am publishing this immediately rather than wait for the print date. Some information may be out of date even now. Point stated last line remains. I got up today intending to write what we call a light piece, … Continue reading
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Berkeley explodes
Well well, another change of plans. This week’s column, full of incisive commentary on stuff, is delayed by events in Berkeley. By the time this goes to press it may be over and we’ll know more. Or maybe not. Curiously … Continue reading
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Today is Yom Hashoah–Holocaust Remembrance Day
When the Nazi occupation government of Denmark announced the Yellow Star order, within days every patriotic Dane wore a yellow star. Denmark was the only occupied country the Nazis had to rescind the edict. When a sympathetic German diplomat warned … Continue reading
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Resistance
(The Greek letter omega is used in electrical engineering as the symbol for electrical resistance.) I discovered author Steven Pressfield when I was living in Warsaw, Poland and just starting out as a professional writer. The book was “Gates of … Continue reading
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It’s a riot!
“Our Sovereign Lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year … Continue reading
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My son got his name on 9/11
It seems 9/11 is one generations defining memory, as in “Where were you when you heard about…?” For my generation it was the assassination of President Kennedy. (Seventh grade home room.) For my parents generation it was Pearl Harbor. But … Continue reading
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Danger from the Sky
Note: This is my weekly op-ed column. Last week the world learned of a meteor that exploded over the Ural mountains on Friday, shattering windows over a 2,000,000 square foot area and injuring roughly 200 children and 1,000 adults. The … Continue reading
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What I learned from garbage
Note: My weekly column. During the recent cold snap I wrote a story for my newspaper about workingmen who have to be out in the weather, no matter how cold it gets. I interviewed a sanitation company worker driving a … Continue reading
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