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The Last Shuttle
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Sitting in the heat of Cape Canaveral, waiting for the final launch,
I didn’t understand why I would be thinking of Mayan ruins
in the jungle of Cozumel, and the unfortunate legacy of Howard Zinn.
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Europe Trip 2010-2011 - Words & Pictures

From October 2010 to April 2011, Alice and I traveled in Europe.  With two dogs.  The monsters.  See here pictures  of Rome, Florence, Amsterdam, Venice, Istanbul, Auschwitz and many other places, as well as thoughts, ruminations and flights of fancy inspired by each.

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Auschwitz:


Who would have thought that Baudelaire would get it right…
One day spent walking through a soft dusting of snow over the soil of death..

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Understanding Rome

You don’t understand Rome until you realize they have a very strict– but very different– notion of “personal space”.
Once you get that, you get everything…    Read about it
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Cézanne

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When it comes to Cézanne, nobody knows anything,  maybe including Cézanne.
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Jacksonville Jaguars

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Time for the Jaguars to quit threatening to leave Jacksonville
The Jacksonville  Jaguars NFL team will never solve their ticket-selling problems by doing the  things they’re doing.
But there is a solution.  Find out what it is, here:
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Suddenly I'm the Bad Guy... Class Warfare

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Class warfare didn’t start as a political ploy only recently:  Read this Newsweek article from 1993.  They told me it had the fastest turnaround from submission to publication of any over-the-transom column they had ever received.  It caused  quite a sensation, and I was interviewed about it on radio stations all across the country.
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Bob Feller: Who knew?

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My father claimed he saved the pitching career of Bob Feller.
I wouldn’t know the truth until I asked Bob Feller directly and learned that nothing is as it seems.
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“Begging the Question”

or how I learned to hate Gandelman…
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