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I can’t let New Year’s Day go by without reporting this weirdness
My sister, Doctor Deb, a serious physician with our family sense of absurdist humor, called from her car to tell me this: When driving through Sleepy Hollow, she has passed a store called Ashes to Glasses without thinking more about … Continue reading
Posted in Mishegas, The Facts of Life
Tagged Ashes to Glasses, Perplexity
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I’ve had a considerable shock. A fictional hero…isn’t.
When in England many years ago, I bought a pretty collection of five, wee, hard-cover novels. Each book, clad in a yellow dust jacket, measured 7 inches by 4.5 inches, more or less the size of my hand. Despite the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, The Facts of Life
Tagged "The Three Musketeers", "The Vicomte de Bragelonne", Alexandre Dumas, Aramis, Athos, Belle-Ile, Brittany, D'Artagnan, Fouquet, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Michelin, Perplexity, Porthos, the Sun King, Wikipedia
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Trump’s pardons spit in the faces of one particular group of Americans
The ones no one refers to when convictions are announced: the people, i.e., us ordinary and unheralded participants in the American experiment, who sat on the many grand juries indicting the criminals and the many juries convicting them. When Jack … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Corruption, Crime & Punishment, DOJ, Government, Jan 6, Judiciary, Lawyers, Mueller investigation, News media, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Executive Branch, Gandalf, grand juries, Jack Smith, January 6, Mar-a-Lago, Perplexity, petit juries, PTSD, Trump, Trump's pardons
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