WHA’CHA’ CALL IT? AND WHERE Y’AT?
WE ARE AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATION, SORTA. But our regional dialects and slang are entertaining too. I’ve written about this from time to time. And recently I came upon The American … Continue reading
AN INSIGNIFICANT CHANGE? PART 2
YESTERDAY WE SHARED TIM MCPHILIPS’S PBS NEWS article “How This New Mail Rule Could Affect Your Ballot, Your Tax Return and More.” Today in Part 2, we begin with some USPS … Continue reading
AN INSIGNIFICANT CHANGE? PART 1
IT MAY SEEM PETTY TO CAVIL ABOUT A SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT CHANGE in postmark regulations, but there’s good reason to suspect Trump and his intentions. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 … Continue reading
NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN….
TOGETHER WITH MY LOVE OF CLASSIC AUTOMOBILES (and reading about them in my fav Brit Classic & Sports Cars), I continue to admire and respect Automotive News. I’m never too … Continue reading
A NEW RESEARCH MENTOR
THERE ARE THOSE WHO ADVISE THAT I’m beyond the age of adopting a mentor, but Edward Brooke-Hitching is certainly in the running. This, I note, arose from Susannah Clapp’s “Not … Continue reading
WHY DO I THINK OF A PETULANT PUERILE MOBSTER?
THANKS TO SiriusXM “Radio Classics” and Turner Movie Classics, I am not without knowledge about gangster portrayals of yore. Perhaps you know the type: amoral to an extreme, full of … Continue reading
RESISTING A.I. SLOP—AAAS SCIENCE’S VIEW
H. HOLDEN THORP DESCRIBES “Resisting A.I. Slop,” AAAS Science, January 1, 2026. Given that Thorp is Editor-in-Chief of all Science journals, he’s an excellent source of thoughtful information on this … Continue reading
THANK YOU, ANDY BOROWITZ
ANDY’S WELL-CRAFTED SATIRE APPEARS from time to time here. A recent contribution from Andy, bless ’em, deserves reproduction word for word. With Due Acknowledgement: “When in the course of human … Continue reading
IN NEED OF A DIVINE COMEDY PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1 WE BEGAN sharing Eric Bulson’s review of Mary Jo Bang’s new translation of Dante’s Divina Commedia. In today’s Part 2, Bulson explores Italian (and its Tuscan … Continue reading
IN NEED OF A DIVINE COMEDY PART 1
READERS BACK TO 2017 MAY RECALL “Dante’s Inferno, a Destination Guide;” this, concerning the first of three parts of Divina Commedia (the other two, Purgatorio and Paradiso). Durante degli Alighieri, … Continue reading
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