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Pardons and Guilt
Last night my husband and I were watching “All In” with Chris Hayes and there was a lot of speculation about Trump pardoning Manafort, et al. I got curious about Watergate pardons and did a search....
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Demographers tell us that those who identify as white will be in the minority in a few years. If you were a political party trying to maintain power and relevance wouldn’t you be trying to court...
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Rituals and Presidents
I had a discussion with two friends about state funerals. They thought stopping mail delivery and otherwise closing the federal agencies was excessive; I thought it was a matter of respect that we...
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I’ve just finished reading Jon Meacham’s book The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels. Using various periods in our history (The Civil War, the McCarthy Era, Reconstruction, etc),...
View ArticlePolitics and Poetry
I’m not like some who memorize great reams of poetry and can always find an appropriate quote. I like to pick up a book of poems and look though it until something catches my attention. Then, I’ll...
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Can baseball help us slow down?
The news seems to come at us with lightening speed. No sooner do we start to digest the latest tweet, the current egregious statement by some state’s governor or a cabinet secretary or the most recent...
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“Stealing” Music
This little snippet from today’s FiveThirtyEight’s Significant Digits caught my eye and started me wondering. 2-second clip Kraftwerk, the pioneering German electronic band, has won a 20-year case in...
View ArticleMid-September Politics
So, I watched two hours of the debate last night. I haven’t watched any of the previous ones, but decided that with only 10 on stage it would be manageable. But who decided to make it 3 hours!? I...
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Re-reading Macbeth
I’m taking a class this fall through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). The University of Vermont sponsors them at several locations around the state including in Brattleboro. We are...
View ArticleHotel Grips and Quibbles
I admit that I stopped flying around 2000. My husband has flown once since then to California and back. I used to fly all the time. In fact, before and for a few months after we were married, I was in...
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