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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 Read more
  • 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 Read more
  • 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
  • Who are the matriarchs?

    posted: Sep. 13, 2020.

    Eve was the first woman,but not a matriarch. We know more about her life than any other woman up to Rebecca.  Eve had something.  She wanted--and that was a crime. Read more
  • We need Fred Rogers

    posted: Sep. 07, 2020.

    I watched the Rogers documentary the other night on PBS.  The first thing that got my attention--Rogers wanted a show where someone could help children modulate the emotions.  It was Read more
  • Sylvia is demented

    posted: Sep. 04, 2020.

    Lockdown has totally destroyed Sylvia.  Lockdown destroys relatively healthy men, it brings them to the brink of delusions.  Many start to hallucinate.   It has destroyed her mind, and her mind Read more
  • Wet Exit

    posted: Aug. 22, 2020.

    Don't think, dear unknown reader, that just because I read more, I laze more.  Even in Unfunky, part of the day was spent in physical activity--then it was tennis.  Problem--tennis Read more
  • I'm still reading

    posted: Aug. 10, 2020.

    I'm still reading I'm still reading the Bible:  Now I've read up until Abraham's search for Isaac's wife.  We learned that Sarah really is a sort of sister with Abraham--his half-sister. Read more
  • What I'm reading now

    posted: Jul. 27, 2020.

    Believe it or not::  The Old Testament.  I started to read it for the poetry of Genesis.  My earliest recall of how I loved words and sounds comes in Third Read more
  • Sam Kahn's second act

    posted: Jul. 04, 2020.

    My father, Samuel Kahn, died on January 6, 2013.  Two years later, while clearing out my parent's apartment in Crystal City, my brother gave me his Sony Vaio PC.  An Read more

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