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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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Published on March 21, 2021 09:00

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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Published on March 07, 2021 12:00

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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Published on February 21, 2021 12:45

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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Published on February 14, 2021 12:00

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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Published on February 07, 2021 12:00

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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Published on January 31, 2021 12:00