Trump = Don Quixote?

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Donald Trump-- in one of his most deranged moves to date-- continues his quixotic battle against windmills, halting five developing wind far...

(Slightly) Brighter Days Ahead

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Today is the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and thus the darkest fucking day of the year . . . but tomorrow we will have a coupl...
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Follow the Link For the Recs . . .

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I did my usual "Seven Books for Reading" post over at Gheorghe: The Blog today . . . if you're looking for a good book, check...

Not Following Directions (Because They Are Insane)

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Does anyone actually: 1) rinse and drain quinoa thoroughly in cold water before cooking? 2) determine doneness by the visible germ ring on t...
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Enough With the Time Wars . . .

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I'm not sure how-- serendipity, I guess-- but I just finished another sci-fi book written in the 1950s that details a war being waged th...

Dave "Works" From Home

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I decided to give working from home a try today-- I've got a cold, and I'm losing my voice, so I didn't feel up to inspiring the...

Even With Some Help, I Don't Think Our Brains Will Ever Work This Well

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Time and Again is more profound and serious than most of the Clifford Simak books I've read ( Mastodonia,   They Walked Like Men , The G...
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Are People Actually Working at Home?

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Despite the cold and the ice and the preponderance of delayed openings in the surrounding counties, Middlesex County schools did NOT have a ...

Ignoring the Unspeakable

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Today was an apt day to finish  Omar El Akkad's book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This  (a title which reminds me of ...

More War

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  Another dark episode of We Defy Augury . . . some thoughts (loosely) inspired by Daniel A. Sjursen's book "A True History of the...

If You're Getting Up Early, You Might As Well Shoot the Ball

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While I normally avoid Route 18-- it has been under construction for years-- I will sometimes gamble and take it when I'm playing early ...

Trump: Making China Even Greater

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I'm not sure I fully understand all the layers of irony and absurdity in the latest economic news, but Trump seems to be offering Americ...

Everyone Got Some Help

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After listening to many episodes of Andrew Hickey's "History of Rock Music in 500 Songs" and reading a fair amount about the i...
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Youth . . . It's Determined by When You Were Born

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Today, one of the morning basketball players said to me: "You're a veteran teacher . . . when did you start teaching?" and I s...

Heading Out to the Park

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Singing "walking the dog, walking the dog" to the tune of Judas Priest's "Breaking the Law" makes taking my dog out ...
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I Live in a "High Brow" Town!

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  Highland Park (and my buddy Craig) recently made Fox News- - because Highland Park High School has a "Socialist Club"-- but the ...
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Ardnakelty: Things Behind Things Behind Things

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In Tana French's thriller, The Hunter , the rural Irish mountain town of Ardnakelty reminds me of the newish Bon Iver tune "Thing...

Carbage

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After lunch, I walked out to my car because I knew I had some gum there, but when I reached into my little gum pouch, I realized that the th...

Common Nothing

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Years ago, I would give my students on "life quizzes"-- little fun tests on facts that most of society considered common knowledge...

Very Short and Cheap Field Trip

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Today in my English 12: Music and the Arts class, the kids were diligently reading and taking notes on a chapter from Susan Roger's exce...