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She Would Have Turned 60 Today
I wrote this in 2010, but have not published it until today, February 28, 2020. I wrote the headline today, but I have not otherwise updated time references. Twenty-seven years ago, on October 16, 1983, a deeply troubled young woman let go of her last hold on life, and tumbled off the Golden Gate Bridge.…
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Dictionaries: A Modern-Day Morality Play
“If you don’t look up the words you don’t know, you don’t deserve the beauty of literature,” my teacher said. Four decades later I still feel the lash in her voice.
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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This Blog Gets Results: Janet Napolitano to Scrap Color-Coded Threat Advisories
Who says the federal government isn’t responsive to ordinary citizens? Barely a year has passed since A.T.I.N. advised Janet Napolitano to scrap the silly color-coded alert system, and now published reports say the Homeland Security Secretary will do exactly that in a speech tomorrow. There have been complaints about about the five-tiered system since its…
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Loading Up the Corruption Bus in New Jersey
(Welcome, New York Times readers. You might be interested in other posts about New Jersey and Maplewood.) My adopted home state of New Jersey has a long sordid history of political corruption. We’re not yet five years removed from Gov. Jim McGreevey’s resignation after the revelation that he had appointed his unqualified boyfriend to a…
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Google ad FAIL
It takes a true professional to pay for the privilege of packing two typos into such a small space. If you want to hire a professional writer, there’s a better option. .
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In the Face of Evil, Good People Did Something
Seldom has any news event captured the spirit behind this blog’s title as powerfully as the atrocity (not tragedy) in Tucson. “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.” It’s usually quoted as “good men,” but since Edmund Burke apparently did not actually say it, I’ve felt free…
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The Coming Debt Ceiling Fight Will Make the Fiscal Cliff Drama Look Tame
Obama’s re-election also eliminated the most compelling political argument against holding the line on the debt ceiling.
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Boy Scouts Teach an Imperfect Lesson Against Discrimination
Today’s vote is the equivalent of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell — the best that could be accomplished at the time.