Author: no3reed

A "National Conversation"?

In a comment to BooMan’s excellent FP diary on the Imus imbroglio, Kahli wrote: I only hope that this incident can lead to some constructive conversations about the way we discuss our differences in this country. Now, this...

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No April Fool’s for me

I was never able to be too enthusiastic about April Fool’s Day, probably due to my recently deceased mother. Having been unlucky enough to be born on April 1, she endured many cruel jokes in her childhood that she related...

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Out of the Mouths of Athletes

In his recent memorable rant, Arthur Gilroy summed up the necessity to dispense not only with the current administration, but the entire machinery – including pseudo-lefty bloggers and their ilk – that helps to...

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Dogs and Tails: A Parable

(Inspired by Simon Malthus’s diary and, especially, by certain comments by kansas therein. An expansion of previously posted material.) There was once a tail who spoke to the dog whose tail it was. “You would think...

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Power Man, oh Where Can You Be?

Inspired by recent events, and by an Arthur Gilroy diary on rather different matters, this variation on “Lover Man” (if you don’t know the song, go look it up): I don’t know why but I’m feeling so...

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