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Why I Could See Myself Not Voting for a Democrat

Posted on December 8, 2019 by admin

(And isn’t that a provocative headline. I write it with the confidence that no one will read this piece. Like Father MacKenzie of Eleanor Rigby’s Parish, I share I think the reality that I’m writing words for a sermon no … Continue reading →

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Curmudgeon

Posted on March 30, 2024 by admin

There’s a stage in the life of a man, when in the middle of a fall afternoon, likely a Friday, he’s in his yard raking leaves maybe, or getting the mail. He’s not wearing a stretched-out cardigan, one with those … Continue reading →

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Forsooth Sayer

Posted on February 1, 2022 by admin

Harry made suggestive gestures around the voluptuous crystal ball. Eyes rolled back into his head, he chanted words that could have been Arabic, he even invoked Allah, with a smattering of Hebrew he recalled from a Bar Mitzvah, but most … Continue reading →

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The Sky Is Falling, The Sky is Falling

Posted on January 14, 2022 by admin

“The Sky Is Falling, The Sky is Falling.” Those were the words of Chicken Little, also known as Henny Penny, in a children’s folk tale to illustrate a groundless or absurd conviction that some catastrophic consequence is imminent or underway. … Continue reading →

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Admissions Process

Posted on April 14, 2021 by admin

            It was not as if the boy’s pleas were falling on deaf ears, not at all. Henry Munroe heard him loud and clear, his impatience growing each time the child asked. Was he oblivious? If a teacher meant no, … Continue reading →

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Return of the Blob

Posted on February 24, 2021 by admin

The film had only just started when the blob filled the screen, blackening the panoramic shot of the upper Amazon, the foothills of the Andes in the distance, cinematography that demonstrated why the film won an Oscar for it. The … Continue reading →

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I Get By With A Lot of Help From My Friends

Posted on January 24, 2021 by admin

I haven’t written squat about the market in a very long while. That hasn’t stopped friends, mostly friends, not always friends, from pointing out how wrong my view of the market has been. The stock market that is. I admit … Continue reading →

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Apocalypse Now?

Posted on April 2, 2020 by admin

(Before I really begin this, I thought I’d mention something about the title. That, of course, comes from the 1979 movie. Well I saw that movie in Cambridge, Mass, the summer just before my senior year, with Jay Pollard, who … Continue reading →

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Perserverating On Unemployment Rate Deception

Posted on March 23, 2020 by admin

Someone once said the truth will make you free. At least it can make you smarter. In such context I add to my LONG theme that the low unemployment rate touted not just by the current Administration but the last … Continue reading →

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Ader Responds to Trump

Posted on March 19, 2020 by admin

(Well I’m home and trying to make the most of it as the kitchen painter paints the extracted cabinets in the garage and we debate what we’ll do when he needs to reinstall them. That will be a multi-day/week process … Continue reading →

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