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Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Voting is being wrecked. Voting is being wrecked. Voting is ...

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"One Vote Can Change the World" by Bisa Butler      I try not to repeat myself.      Let me say that again.      I try not to repe...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Cats want to be naughty

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Casper, in action.       We have a pair of houseguests, Casper and Boo, taken in for a month. Our son's cats, now ours, temporarily.    ...
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Monday, August 24, 2026

White Sox might bring in popular Japanese mascot to pinch hit

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  Kumamon, at his birthday party in 2016      Readers make suggestions. Some are anatomically impossible and best ignored. Some are for stor...
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Sunday, August 23, 2026

Days of beauty and tomatoes

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     Sometimes simple is best. Like slices of homegrown tomatoes on a piece of fresh challah, spread with butter, eaten on the deck in your ...
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Saturday, August 22, 2026

Promise Willie

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   "Africa The Land of Hope and Promise For Negro People's of the World" (detail) by Bisa Butler       Thursday was Google cal...
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Friday, August 21, 2026

Do legal challenges to hate speech protect Jews or threaten them?

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Bess Myerson      Bess Myerson, the first and only Jewish Miss America, was crowned on Sept. 8, 1945. In the hazy nostalgia that passes for ...
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Thursday, August 20, 2026

Maybe Brad Pitt will be the first. Maybe not.

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     Did you see that  Brad Pitt told Esquire  how, after seven years sobriety, he has returned to drinking. At 62, he "got back off th...
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