Keeping the Quadrupeds in Line

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 Deer bounding across the road are quite menacing when you're on rollerblades.
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America's Gun Problem is Impossible

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Derek Thompson's excellent and informative podcast Plain English  details the four obstacles that impede any solution to the proliferati...

I Don't Serve on Shomer Shabbos!

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  The boys and I had off yesterday-- we never burned our snow days-- and my wife took off from her school, so this was supposed to be a rela...

Respect the Speck

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Hockey is hard enough to watch on TV, but if there's a black speck on the TV-- or several black specks on a couple of TVs-- then things ...

Whew . . .

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I was nervous all day for our first state tennis match: we earned a bye in the first round and we had to play Point Beach today-- last year&...

The Horror, the Horror!

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The year is winding down but we're still not done with Hamlet  . . . or at least I'm not done with Hamlet -- one of my senior studen...

Crime and a Whole Lot More in 1963 L.A.

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One-Shot Harry , by Gary Philips, certainly evokes Walter Mosely . . . Harry Ingram, a black journalistic photographer/ Korean War veteran, ...

Ian = Work

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Ian put in some hours working this weekend; Saturday he went to his county trail maintenance  job with his brother and the heat was so bruta...

AITA?

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There's a forum on Reddit called AITA (Am I the Asshole?) and I wanted to put this incident on there (but forgot to post it) but I go...

The Jack Wong Effect?

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On Tuesday, my son Ian got to play Jack Wong, the eventual winner of the GMC tourney (and one of the best players in the state) and then he...
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Setting the Story Straight

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My wife insists that I revise yesterday's narrative, when I presented a video of a Killer Deer  . . . apparently this particular deer, a...
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Men . . . We're the Best

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I learned from a Freakonomics Radio Podcast (Women are Not Men) that while women are catching up and even surpassing men educationally and ...
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So Much Tennis . . .

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Today was the GMC Tennis Tournament, an all day tennis extravaganza with 26 teams from Middlesex County in attendance . . . we left for Thom...

Be Prepared and Have a Plan?

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This morning the weather report was grim: "High winds, severe thunderstorms, possible large hail, possible tornado" and there was ...

Here We Go Again . . .

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It's hot, it's humid, and-- just in case you thought you were safe in the water-- the lantern-fly eggs masses, mortar colored and re...

Tranquil Time Travel

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Emily St. John Mandel's new novel Sea of Tranquility  floats by in an otherworldly manner, which makes sense-- since it is beautifully w...

More Tennis Adventures

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We enjoyed a nice 4-1 win yesterday against St Joe's-- especially since their players were all wound up for senior day-- unfortunately, ...
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People Are More Different Than You Believe

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One of the essential things I always try to remember is that there are lots of people that genuinely believe  things-- holy things, moral th...

A Tough Loss and a Tough Win

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Monday we had a big match against Metuchen which will probably determine the winner of the White Division-- and the two smallest schools by ...

Like the Shining, But With Time Travel

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If you're looking for a fast-paced novel with gender fluidity and plenty of time travel, set in a spooky hotel, then you'll love Rob...