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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Freedom and coffee go together

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Coffee break, Amsterdam        Honest question:      Have you ever gone to a coffee shop for a cup of coffee?      I don't mean, have yo...
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Monday, April 13, 2026

Older, sicker Americans waiting longer to get into crowded hospitals

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     An endocrinologist is a doctor specializing in hormone-related diseases, such as, in my case, diabetes. When first diagnosed in late Se...
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Sunday, April 12, 2026

Flashback 2011: Maybe that pain in your gut is cancer

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      Sometimes one aspect of life can have an odd resonance with another. I was looking through the archive, noticed this story, and figure...
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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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