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Listen to some of these Moon River programs, which were broadcast by radio superstation WLW in Cincinnati from the 1930s until the early 1...

The current controversies involving Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Darren Wilson, Al Sharpton, and the like cry out for another novel by T...

Does the New York Times still care about grammar? Consider the following passage from a recent article in the New York Times : ...

Isn't it time for Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians in the United States to mobilize? Or is this already happening? &...

Jim was a great actor, a wonderful human being, a superior poker player – and a gentle and caring person. His death comes as a great shock....

Sanction for Crimea referendum: President Obama canceled President Putin's invitation to the White House Easter egg hunt. ...

Krystin Arneson, SNOWDEN DESERVES CLEMENCY, SAYS NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, AND ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER  Bustle (January 2, 2014): Due to...

A grand deception about the nerve gas attack in Syria? Seymour Hersh plainly enjoys going against the grain, but he cannot be written off ...

I guess almost all U.S. Presidents have relatives they would rather not acknowledge. Pres. Obama had an uncle who was long in the closet: ...

"Where is Latvia? ...  "Let me handle those questions in their proper order.  "1. Latvia is one of the 'Baltic...

The reduction in the number of games in a world chess championship match from 24 or so to 12 is a terrible idea. As this match illustrated ...

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Another example of appalling word inflation: 1. weather prediction 2. weather forecasting 3. weather prognostication &...

"'The NSA allegedly collected the phone records of 320 million people in order to identify roughly 300 people who might be a risk...

Wikipedia : "On 31 October 1517, Luther posted the ninety-five theses, which he had composed in Latin, on the door of the Castle Church...

Gold & Gilbert, U.S. Is Overtaking Russia as Largest Oil-and-Gas Producer Wall Street Journal (October 2, 2013): The U.S. is overtaki...

Colin Burrow, Rabelais, Thomas Urquhart, and Melissa Mohr teach us how to really swear. See Colin Burrow, Frog's Knickers London Re...

David Bromwich, Diary London Review of Books (September 26 [sic], 2013): The anti-government insurgency in Syria was given an intoxicat...

Seth Borensteinh, Arctic sea ice 6th lowest, but rebounds from 2012 Bloomberg Businessweek News (September 20, 2013): "The National ...

Edmund Sanders, Israel also facing questions about chemical weapons , Washington Post ("September 12, 2013): JERUSALEM -- Israe...

Walter C. Clemens, Jr., Democracy as Chimera New York Times (September 10, 2013). In this interesting essay Clemens says, among other thi...

John Kass,  Syrian Christians largely ignored in debate over U.S. intervention Chicago Tribune (September 11, 2013). &&...

John Kerry reportedly called the Syrian chemical matter "our Munich moment." Could it better be described as John Kerry's Gu...

O my gosh, is he really going to drag us into a real (big, long) war?  Sanger & Schmitt, Pentagon Is Ordered to Expand Potential T...

Barbara Hardinghaus, Aging Together: A New Way to Avoid Late-Life Loneliness Spiegel Online (August 29, 2013) &&& ...

Will (American) rockets glare (red) on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington? ... while Pres. Obama addresses the 50th anniv...

I have been here in Chapel Hill for two weeks. Two-thirds of my books are unpacked. My computers are up and running. My massive new print...

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