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For mysterious reasons , I've spent much of this July 4 thinking about the Nazis in Skokie and the p aradox of tolerance . As I age I ha...

Barely ten thousand people at Trump's ego parade; even the Army, celebrating its 250th anniversary, slacked off on purpose rather than m...

Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day, about which I don't usually talk because I was scarred as a young teen by being forced by my ye...

I don't want to think about where our country is going for the next four years. So many of my friends and acquaintances are bound to suf...

I believe the United States has been in end-stage capitalism since the election of Ronald Reagan, and what's happening on Monday is the ...

It does feel like it, at least to me. Personally I'm handling January as best I can, the roof of my mouth is today's weird pain but ...

White Rabbits ! Is a Tesla cybertruck full of explosives blowing up in front of a Trump property in Las Vegas too on-the-nose for the start ...

Well, it's all over. Our modern-day Caligula not only won the electoral college votes but the popular votes of millions of scared and de...

A jam-packed day today, starting with exercising my franchise on the first day of early voting in New York. And oh, was my early-vote pollin...

I had just enough down time at the office that I was able to fill it by watching Day 1 of the Democon, skipping past the silences and some s...

So excited, the weather is becoming "false fall" for a few days! Today's the last day we'll need the air conditioning on u...

I seem to have a bit of the stomach ailment that had been plaguing Robin yesterday, so no biking for me. My appetite isn't affected, jus...

I think my body feels the impending heat wave. I just couldn't get enough energy up to go on the bike today, but as I know I have to ret...

The results are in on this Independence Day. The Brits have retained their sanity while the Americans seem to be losing theirs. I'm not ...

And that's me logged off for the next day! I'll go back on briefly tomorrow to set my out-of-office message before heading out to NJ...

Finances all caught up, checks written to be mailed out tomorrow in the Big Bad City, did another Stew Leonard's run just 'cause I f...

Remember, remember This Fifth of November Who's for freedom and who's not I see no reason Why those pushing treason Should ever be f...

Work was a bit of a challenge, coming back from exactly one day of vacation to a flurry of emails, but I had a handle on things by the end o...

Unfortunately, yesterday's Prime Minister-related news was much more amusing than today's bombshell. I won't miss the guy but y...

Wow, that was an interesting morning. No, the weird hamstring ailment is still with me, and I'm kind of dreading my medical appointment ...