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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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Strange Bedfellows: House GOP Leadership Has Obama’s Back in Libya Showdown With Kucinich
When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama launched an air war against the Libyan regime without Congressional approval in March, he said he expected the action to last “days, not weeks.” In a post about “the bizarreness of it all,” I tried to keep an open mind about the intervention and said I was hoping…
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She’s My Summer Love in the Spring, Fall and Winter
Eleven years ago today, on a perfect sunny autumn afternoon, the Web Goddess and I were married at St. George’s Church. The first time I sang to her was a couple of years before that.
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But Enough About Obama…
The title of this blog contains precisely 21 letters and spaces. Why do I know this, or care? Well, it turns out that the way-cool Obamicon.me application will only allow up to 20 characters in a caption.
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Step Aside, NY Times — Patch Is Bringing Google Zillions to Hyperlocal Maplewood
I got interested in the hyperlocal Maplewood BlogolopolisTM because the mighty New York Times was wading into the fray (and I happen to know the local Times reporter). But it turns out the Times is only the SECOND-best capitalized hyperlocal effort in Maplewood. The newcomer to watch is something called Patch.com. I barely noticed Maplewood…