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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Take cabs while you can or soon there won’t be cabs to take

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Uber Eats delivery driver in Santiago, Chile this April.       Our flight to Chicago was delayed. So my brother and I retired to a wine ...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

'Complaining is part of the fun'

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         I wrote this last November but never posted it. I'm not sure why; maybe I didn't think it was up to snuff. Maybe it was ...
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Monday, June 10, 2019

Take up the straight man's burden....

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     I thought it was a joke .      A meme, some online wit.      That’s how news often enters our awareness. As flashes on the horizon, s...
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Sunday, June 9, 2019

‘Soulless’ sets out R. Kelly’s abuse of girls

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              No kindness goes unpunished.      The Sunday editor asked if I would read the new book on R. Kelly and, accommodating fellow...
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Saturday, June 8, 2019

What's the hurry to get to St. Louis?

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Typical St. Louis residents commuting to work in 2019       Today is "But St. Louis IS Boring Day" at one of my favorite ne...
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Friday, June 7, 2019

Ricketts not first owner to go to bat for Republicans

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     So baseball fans are grumbling because Todd Ricketts, Cubs co-owner and finance chair of the Trump Victory Committee, is dandling ...
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Thursday, June 6, 2019

Flashback 2011: Would so many still storm the beach today?

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     On July 9, 1944, Corporal H. W. Crayton paused "somewhere in France" to write a letter to the parents of Raymond Hoback.   ...
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