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"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." — A. J. Liebling

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Can you trust someone who wears a hat indoors, or a t-shirt with a blazer? I think not.

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Any investigative journalists or economic historians looking at whether the money behind Amazon and private equity’s swath of disaster in retail have anything in common?

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“Illegal invasion” is a funny phrase. Are invading countries supposed to ask nicely first, or do they simply need to find a coalition of the willing to pretend they did?

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It’s pretty neat how the UPS guy and the I honk hello at each other when we pass. He started it.

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Returning to New York after a day in Charleston reminded me that I'm not a Yankee.

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Looking at schools with my children is fun, and almost as illuminating for me as it is puzzling for them. They are all themselves, and so far none has done what I thought they'd want to do.

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When I was working at a publishing consultancy (1998-2000), I would often be invited out for drinks after work. Went once, but usually declined because my wife was expecting me home. Our first child was born in 2000. At the time it felt odd: everyone was living the dream of paying their bar tab.

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Monopoly capital loves a guaranteed, mandatory client base, and so delights in turning public goods into private profit, whether the post office or medicine or education or water.

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EfM is reading Howard Thurman's _Jesus and the Disinherited_ (1949) this year. Looks like they accidentally included two well-written books. But that's OK; they made up for that by also requiring _The Four Vision Quests of Jesus_ (2015).

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I've been lying awake for hours with incoherent thoughts running through my head and a strong sense that I'm procrastinating life.

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One of the joys of delivering mail is that I can see all the Trump flags at the trailer parks and McMansions and real mansions. The professional managerial class needs to get a real job before they write again.

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Got myself some birthday gifts.

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“Human Resources” delenda est.

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Ackshully Congress abdicated 50 years ago.

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Were I either the Amazon union rep or in charge of design at that company, I would change the radio buttons to select the slowest option by default — and never on weekends or holidays.

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Delivered the J Peterman catalog today. Feeling underdressed for this adventure.

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While I will not be at the Anglican Way conference this week, I will be northbound on Amtrak's Silver Meteor on Saturday. Send me a message if you will be enjoying the same train.

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Odd. Didn't see anything here about stopping subsidies for sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, or eliminating factory farming. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Today in news of the weird, first I've heard of these people. Apparently the lead character was arrested today. apnews.com/article/verm...

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I got something completely different out of Octavia Butler's books than M. Rothblatt did. Perhaps I'm not the only one amused that L. Ron Hubbard, intentionally, and Robert Heinlein, unintentionally, were not the only science fiction authors whose works prompted a, literally, cult following.

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Severance has an interesting premise, but the Company's operational security practices were so horrible I can't bear to watch Season Two.

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John D. Rockefeller, Jr., funded, among other things, the League of Nations and U.N., the Interchurch World Movement and its successors the Federal, then World, Council of Churches; the Institute of Social and Religious Research; the Bureau of Social Hygiene; and the precursor of Planned Parenthood.

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What is the name of the body of water conveniently located between the two large landmasses in the image below?

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Randomly firing people in understaffed organizations is not wise.

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No. 2 Son is beginning his search for a college. After a brief sampling of some college websites, it's remarkable how they no longer blare that their most important function since mid-2020 has been DEI. Did the administrators really think that's why students go to college?

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I just about wore through the magnetic tape listening to The Greatest Hits of 1720 and its companion album, The Greatest Hits of 1721. www.discogs.com/master/58233...

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I suspect I'm old: I prefer regularly scheduled public transportation to using an application on a persistently-connected computing device to summon another to drive me from place to place at 4:00 in the morning for less than the price of a doughnut.

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