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Pretend Not to Know What You Do, In Fact Know
I was a fairly bright small boy, and sometimes, I felt the overwhelming urge to share with the others the things I knew that I suspected (or hoped) they…
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On Taylor Swift and Taste
The release of a new Taylor Swift record — and she has given us 31 new songs this day — is an occasion for many conversations. One of those is a…
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Nuremberg Fantasies
Pretend Nazis in the dock I was twelve when I first saw Judgment at Nuremberg. It ran on television some weekend evening in 1979, and I watched it…
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I Will Never Retire
I will never be able to retire. Several friends and I repeated this observation in a recent discussion. These friends are all Gen Xers, my age or…
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A Note on OJ
O.J. Simpson has died at 76. Some memories: Sunday, June 12, 1994. My fianceé, Sara — who would soon be wife #2 — and I went to a 7:00PM AA meeting in…
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What Do We Want our Kids to Value?
What do you want your children to know? What skills or attributes do you feel it most important to nurture? Like many parents, I want to know how other…
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The Good Son who Jumped
Sixty-five million years ago, an enormous meteorite struck what is now the Yucatan peninsula. The non-avian dinosaurs were wiped out by the…
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