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Saturday, April 11, 2026

Flashback 2012: Stealing bases? Just buy them

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Not a bad view from the former section 219 in 2012.        April, warmer weather, finally, and a man's thoughts turn to baseball. Well, ...
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Friday, April 10, 2026

What are the 400 uses of dental floss?

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     "Old age isn't a battle," Philip Roth once wrote. "Old age is a massacre."      One certainly suffers losses. F...
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Thursday, April 9, 2026

Flashback 2013: Reviewing movies was the least of it

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Roger Ebert comments on NPR in 2006 (Photo courtesy of Sound Opinions)      Shakespeare wrote, in "Julius Caesar," that "the ...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Ye facing the music over idiotic embrace of Nazism

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Illinois Holocaust Museum      Did you notice, in Monday's column , how I copped to not knowing about the Greek god Artemis before the c...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Little life

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     I've reflected previously on the Latin term, memento mori , literally "remember to die," but interpreted as, "remem...
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Monday, April 6, 2026

NASA, of all people, gets back into the space biz

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  Artemis II crew.      Too bad some of the fame attached to remarks made on humanity's first landing on the moon, "Houston, Tranqu...
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Sunday, April 5, 2026

Recessional

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  Winged bull from the throne room of Sargon II (Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures)      Saturday dawned quiet.  The big pots were...
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