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Who doesn’t love a new gadget? Gadgets, toys, gizmos; Americans dig novelty. I must confess that I, too, am titillated when, occasionally, some newness finds its way into my life. And like most new toys nowadays, mine comes in the form of an app. What is this new and exciting piece of novelty that I…
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And for my honorable mention… after all, what’s a list without an honorable mention: ***** I hope you enjoyed my quirky list. Lists are meant to elicit reactions ranging from, Yeah, I agree, to, What the hell was he thinking! Anyway, please take a moment and check out my latest perspective piece: America’s Diamond 08/03/2025
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The following is assuming I can time-travel: So that no young boy would ever have to utter the despairing words, “Say it ain’t so, Joe,” I would warn my dinner guest, “Don’t do it, Joe!” Can you guess my guest?
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It’s June, a month that bridges late spring and early summer. June also means something else, and that “something else” has prompted me to write this post. I have hesitated for twenty days, fearful of the castigations that might ensue. But upon further review, I decided to let the haymaker fly because it’s coming from…
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If you’re looking for an engaging summer read, please consider the edgy and spirited American Odyssey. The tone and presence of its core characters will immerse you in a summer’s day, when you were coming of age, a breath away from awakening unrealized passions, and making enduring ties. The paperback is available at Amazon.com: American…
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Recently, for the first time, I listened to the opera Ainadamar. I had never heard of the opera or its composer, Osvaldo Golijov. Golijov was born in La Plata, Argentina, to a Jewish family that immigrated to Argentina from Ukraine. Ainadamar in an Arabic word meaning Fountain of Tears. It is the name of an…
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Ever since the advent of the twenty-four-hour-a-day cable news cycle, America has altered her visual trajectory: we no longer look inward at are communities; all eyes, since the late 1990s, are focused on Washington D.C.; it’s up with macro and down with micro. The result? Communities have gone uncared for, reduced to localities our houses…
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Patriotism? Mmm. It’s a term that has morphed, jumped the rails. Nowadays, some conflate it with, or have rebranded it “White nationalism.” A “white nationalist” is presumed male or, more specifically, a heterosexual male. In the West, white, heterosexual, and male have become an unfortunate trifecta; keeping to America, it’s become the 21st-century’s version of…
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For years, friends, family, and associates used the term “a warehouse of useless information” to describe me. I would have preferred tall, dark, and handsome but we can’t always get our way. Anyway, the term was not as unflattering as it might suggest but instead was a moniker acknowledging that information sticks to me like…
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Winning streaks, sunny days, my wife agreeing with me, not hitting a bridge opening en route to work, my son both recognizing and concurring with my logic, my Maltese unfailingly depositing his bodily secretions onto the wee-wee mat, my market holdings trending upward: The abovementioned mark matters I would appreciate marching along in a procession…
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