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Finally, we turned the page from the 2026 midterm election and the cavalcade of nonsense it brought to bear. But lo and behold, look what’s been awaiting to scarf up our attention: A locked-and-loaded pharmaceutical industry poised to peddle a new round of pixie dust to cure obscure diseases and conditions some had no idea…
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What’s a song that changed your life? View all responses I can’t point to one song and say, “Hearing that changed my life.” But one piece of music made me feel the boundaries of musical expression stretching as I listened. I was thirty when I first heard Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto. The first movement drew…
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Finally, I have a reason to be grateful that I moved to New Jersey! Huh? Sometimes, there’s no “lesser of two evils.” There’s just dumbassery. Happy midterms 2026.
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It’s been a minute since I shared a podcast. Primarily, it’s because I haven’t watched many lately. Kathy and I had what I dubbed our “Round, round, get around, we get around” Beach Boys summer. Summer 2026 was our first without a dog in twenty-four years. So, instead of diving into intellectual spaces, we decided…
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The baseball season may be over for us Philadelphia Phillies devotees, but Kathy and I have kept our routine: Dinner, the nightly news, and a playoff game that sadly doesn’t include our beloved Phillies. Kathy prefers the nightly news with Tom Llamas. “It’s time for Tom,” she reminds me. (Apparently, Kathy and Tom are on…
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My beloved baseball team may not be participating in the Fall Classic, but it is still autumn, and I’m doing my damndest to be happy. The pumpkins are real. They’re shiny because I have to spray them with acrylic to keep the squirrels and other varmints from making a meal of them. I accept that…
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“Testing, testing, 1,2,3. Pardon us, folks-you lovely people for whom America’s polity exists; in case you hadn’t noticed, we’re in another election cycle, and we wanted to make sure the microphones are open and working so you don’t miss a single word. Wait. What’s that you say? We Americans live in a perpetual election cycle,…
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What’s the most underrated life skill? An angry throng en masse; the phenomenon of a sound shadow; and whatever became of Marc Anthony? When does something that isn’t a skill rise to the standard of a skill? When everyone stops doing it! Now there went a can of worms that just exploded. And what might…
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What’s the best way to explore a new city? View all responses I’m from Philly. So, in some way, that could make me as obnoxious as the title of this post. In case you’re unfamiliar with Philly people, we aren’t necessarily the politest lot you’ll run into, but we are kind. In other words, we…
