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A touch of the poet
posted: Apr. 01, 2021.
Vonnegut began Slaughterhouse 5: "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." It was required reading in Junior Year of High School. I compared Billy to Huck Finn at that time. Apparently, Read more -
Hippopatumus sans tutu
posted: Mar. 13, 2021.
Apparently, the comedy in the park ran its length and disappeared. You remember those budding enthusiasts: Why did the formacophiliac, zoophiliac, and buttsexual walk into the park....because that's where the psychologists Read more -
But the rest of us are not.
posted: Mar. 11, 2021.
It's finally happened. I'm having flashbacks to that awful second grade year at Vanderveer Elementary School. That was the year when I started to realize some of the work made Read more -
The ducks are all right
posted: Feb. 20, 2021.
The ducks are all right Holden Caulfield. As you can see, even when the lake freezes over in parts, they skirt along its edges just fine. They can act in
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The glove didn't fit and so they acquit
posted: Feb. 13, 2021.
Yesterday former President Trump got a belated Christmas present and was acquitted of charges to incite a riot against our Constitution. And, after almost a week, after six weeks, after
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Learn from the bookworm
posted: Jan. 23, 2021.
As those of you whom regularly read this blog already know, I am and was a bookworm. So I have some practice in being a lonely, marginalized, social isolate. Without Read more -
Lockdown Lunacy
posted: Jan. 20, 2021.
No one copes with the effects of prolonged isolation well. Prisoners go psychotic. Even strong, healthy individuals feel their psyche sag. And then there's the rest of us. But what
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Worse than9/11
posted: Jan. 06, 2021.
Dear Readers: I am reposting the entry from 1/6/2021. It is as timely as ever.. The Republican Party HAS become the Party of Hitler. Trump quotes Hitler. He reads his speeches. He Read more -
Misogynistic Blather
posted: Jan. 03, 2021.
Hilaria, Hilarious. What is the big deal. With the problems that we're facing, I yawn and react with a big--"So what." It sounds like a bunch of big mean girls Read more -
Saruman Trump.
posted: Dec. 22, 2020.
I realize that grumbling over losing the swimming pool lottery at the Y is rarely the stuff from which epics are made. Even Pope would have a hard time coming Read more -
Grumpy old men
posted: Dec. 19, 2020.
Besides wannabe hall monitor Karens, we are now beset by a plague of grumpy old men who belittle women for their accomplishments. The latest is Joseph Epstein, who graduated and Read more -
Not exactly Shakespeare in the Park
posted: Nov. 27, 2020.
{Pictured above: Even the pigeons disregard social distancing on Thanksgiving}.
On Saturdays @3, all the world's a stage and anyone can become an amateur stand up comic. Only in Carl Schurz
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Gondor liberated
posted: Nov. 07, 2020.
We are all Gondorians and Denethor has immolated himself. We are liberated and happiness and peace pierces the smoke of Orkish destruction. Gandalf has entered the city to make plans Read more -
Zoom hell
posted: Oct. 06, 2020.
There is a special room in Hell just for Zoom. Zoom is the new attempt to do remote education. And while it is remote, it does not offer an education.
Classrooms
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Skinnerian steps to better modulation and civil behaviors
posted: Oct. 01, 2020.
A version of this will be published soon in the NATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST> There appear to be few behavioral specialists involved in public-health contact tracing and other methods to control the pandemic Read more -
What do you call a person who graduates last in class of medical school?
posted: Sep. 19, 2020.
Last night I went on the final phase of leaving the novice stage as a kayaker and went into the intermediate stage. I went on the Golden Hour Tour, where Read more
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