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Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Misdirected wrenches

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      About 65 million packages are delivered every day in the United States. We all know the drill. Today's load of brown cardboard is ...
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Monday, May 18, 2026

'I still have a life' — amputees struggle to cope with loss

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        Usually, they cry.       Because losing a limb is not subtle, not a hidden loss, like losing a kidney. You see what is missing. Ever...
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Sunday, May 17, 2026

Flashback 2010 — Notice: This is not a column about a dog

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Kitty, August, 2010           Billy Goat owner Sam Sianis died this week. While I certainly did my share of holding up the bar at the Goat, ...
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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Prank

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       I went downstairs to walk the dog, turned right on Greenwood, and meandered. The night was warm, soft, lovely.      I should say I wa...
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Friday, May 15, 2026

Has Facebook begun the long slide toward ruin?

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Breuget's electrical telegraph machine (Cabinet of Physics, University of Coimbra)     Here's an odd coincidence. On Friday, I grabb...
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Thursday, May 14, 2026

"How does it feel to be a minority?"

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     "You're not gay, right?" said my neighbor at a table in the Hilton ballroom, packed for the annual American Civil Liberti...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

From garbage into the stuff of history, a trove is donated to the Newberry from Illinois poet

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Marc Kelly Smith, left, and Alison Hinderliter at the Newberry Library.      Marc Kelly Smith has bronchitis. Yet the 76-year-old poet still...
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