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Thursday, February 3, 2022
The empire of death
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Inscription entering the Paris Catacombs. It reads "Stop! This is the empire of death." A grim New York Times analysis foun...
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022
History is a journey we all must take together
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Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950 Winning the Pulitzer Prize nauseated Gwendolyn Brooks. That gets left out when the story is told about ho...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Hardier and hardier
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One drawback of only going into the office every few months is that you miss out on seed catalogues. If you haven't seen a seed cat...
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Monday, January 31, 2022
Chicago is a fine place and worth saving
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There's a back story to today's headline. I recently read Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls," which co...
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Sunday, January 30, 2022
'Good places for a pipefitter to work'
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Sometimes I give the impression that my mail is one raging septic river of abuse—probably because there is something empowering about...
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Saturday, January 29, 2022
Notes: Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. (Rumi)
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It's odd to see yourself reflected in your friends. Like Caren, I subscribe to the New York Times and the Sun-Times, and like her,...
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Friday, January 28, 2022
Chicago’s candy crown slips with Mars exit
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Jelly beans grow like pearls, around a grain of sugar instead of sand, while tumbling in drums that look like cement mixers. I kno...
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