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Friday, November 13, 2020

Trump beast draws flies like Jim Oberweis

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  The Fortune-Teller, by  Georges de La Tour  (Metropolitan Museum of Art)      Satire doesn’t belong in a newspaper. And by “satire” I mean...
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Thursday, November 12, 2020

Flashback 1994: Med Students Get Feet Wet Helping Homeless

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     Talking to a friend earlier this week, the subject turned to medical stories. She mentioned that there is a Dr. Scholl College of Podia...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Which modern tyrant is most like Trump?

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      What makes Donald Trump so terrifying? At least to those of us not lost in adoration and obeisance. It is that he represents a complet...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Northbrook Voice: Do your share; give gifts

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  Holly Schulz in Hip Hip Hooray       This is my piece in the November/December Northbrook Voice. I think it strikes a compromise between m...
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Monday, November 9, 2020

Beast is buried, but keep an eye on its grave

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"Enrag'd Monster" by John Hamilton Mortimer (Metropolitan Museum of Art)      Tap the average Democrat on the shoulder in 2019...
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Sunday, November 8, 2020

There's work ahead, but for now: The good guy won

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  The Goodman family celebrates, Northbrook, Nov. 7, 2020       Whew.      Joe Biden won. He is the president-elect. He will be sworn in on ...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

Texas Notes: Gussied Up

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"The Greek Slave," by Hiram Powers (National Gallery of Art)       This has been a taxing, exhausting please-wake-me-now nightmare...
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