I’m willing to wager that Ari and I are the last living humans without cell phones. I know, it’s pretty crazy, huh? You’d think that with two kids and a house and cars and even a website for cryin out loud that we’d be hip enough to have cell phones. To be honest with you, […]

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And another one down and another one down and another one bites the dust.
Julien told us on Friday that his tooth was loose. We brought in a team of experts and had the tooth carefully inspected. The tooth was definitely loose. We encouraged him to play, diddle, futz, mess, fool, etc. with it, which he […]

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I’ve never been to Paris. But I want to go. The desire to see what is in my mind an old and romantic and crumbling city stuffed with more history than I could possibly ever absorb gets stronger everyday, particularly as the political climate of my own country becomes increasingly intolerant of Parisians et al. […]

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A CNN poll that doesn’t completely suck:
Will Iraq be democratic in…
1) Less than 5 years
2) More than 5 years
3) Democracy will not take hold
I think you know which one I picked. Surprisingly (or is it?), it is the same answer given by the majority of people responding to that poll. And as an aside, I […]

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So I went looking for information on how to disassemble the freewheel on my bike so that I could clean and oil it seeing as how it, like the rest of the bike, hasn’t been cleaned or oiled since 1990. (I’ve since discovered that disassembling the freewheel isn’t worth the time or energy so I’ve […]

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It’s no secret that I’ve got issues with the Dewey Decimal Classification system for libraries. It’s not user-friendly. In fact, it’s not even librarian-friendly, if you ask me. Sure, librarians and students who’ve grown up on Dewey will argue and say that it’s the most intuitive and perfect classification system ever invented in the entire […]

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Valuable advice. And I swear I didn’t diddle with it. But I did remove so that I could get the pedal assembly off. I guess I should clarify. Although John Muir’s How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive has virtually no illustrations to help explain the complicated procedures to the “Compleat Idiot” like myself, it’s still […]

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My Morning Jacket is a pretty great band. The album I’ve got is At Dawn and it’s really quite amazing. You can listen to two of the songs here. They’re listed as “country” by iTunes which proves to me that music classification has been shot all to hell somewhere. The point is, don’t let the […]

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I haven’t said anything about Johnny Cash yet. But it’s not because I wasn’t saddened by his death. It’s because I’ve been trying to validate a particular piece of information, a memory that I’ve carried with me pretty much my whole life. I am now 99% certain that this memory is accurate and not just […]

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In the wake of Isabel, Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz writes:
Whether it’s Brian Williams or Ashleigh Banfield or hordes of local reporters being buffeted by the elements, you have to wonder whether there isn’t a circus element to this storm coverage.
The sad fact is the entire “news” industry is a circus these days. With all due […]

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