Category: Culture
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Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright in the Woods
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So Tiger wants his privacy; indeed, he called his yacht, Privacy. I don’t follow golf because I generally don’t follow anything. The latest tempest in the teapot is the conflict between Tiger’s “image” and his right to keep his mouth shut about what happened in his suv. The media vultures…
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Liz And Bill Go To Panama
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Americans abroad can be fairly obnoxious, fatuous and deaf, dumb and blind to their surroundings, often collectors of experiences without registering what they experience. On the Homes and Garden channel I often watch House Hunters and House Hunters International, both programs working on the premise that a couple see three…
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I’ve Been Working On The Railroad
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Wending her way through my collection of short stories on the Holocaust, Jane is formulating, in mind, what she intends to write in her introduction to the new book, hopefully published in Spring 2010. What I discovered when writing these stories is that as I crept toward an understanding that I…
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Several More Observations About Vegas
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I will need to sequester a small portion of my pension check for playing the slots as I enjoyed losing $20 here, $20 there. In fact, I found it kind of meditatively soothing as I won a little and then lost it, or bells went off and I hit a…