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March 28, 2021
Why I Love March Madness
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March 21, 2021
Statehood for the District of Columbia?
Statehood for the District of Columbia is one of many long-shot, back-burner causes that has suddenly been brought to a boil by the last election’s results. Throughout my Many Adult […]
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March 14, 2021
New Career(s) After 50?
I can’t hold a job. More accurately, I can’t stick with a career. Well, at least not like Dad did. I mean, he only had one career. I’m on Number […]
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March 7, 2021
Flying in the BUFF (Part Two)
I wrote a post awhile ago spilling secrets about my days flying bombers, in particular the venerable tr: “friggin’ old”) Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. This name is habitually shortened to the […]
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February 28, 2021
The Public Domain
If there’s an area about which this lawyer knows Very Little Indeed, it’s the law of intellectual property. Including patent, copyright, and trademark, this is known amongst the cognoscenti as […]
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February 21, 2021
To the Lighthouses, Writers
What is it about lighthouses and writers? My blog title is a riff on Virginia Woolf’s incomparable To the Lighthouse that I first read in high school. Just in the […]
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To the Lighthouses
What is it about lighthouses and writers? My blog title is a riff on Virginia Woolf’s incomparable To the Lighthouse that I first read in high school. Just in the […]
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February 14, 2021
The Strange Life of Thomas Paine
To my pleasant surprise, one of my favorite historical figures has received unexpected shout-outs during The Current Unpleasantness in Washington. I count it a minor victory for American democracy when […]
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February 7, 2021
Zen and the Art of Water Watching
Kay-Kay and I are spending much of February in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. On the beach. In February. Crazy, yes? Two reasons: 1) we actually love the seacoast […]
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January 31, 2021
How Long, O America, Until Racism Dies?
America suffers from Institutional Racism. There, I’ve said it—and I’ll argue, debate, fight, challenge to Corn Hole, and/or Be Very Unpleasant with anyone who disagrees with me on that. It. […]
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