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Thursday, April 20, 2017

The dumbing-down is nearly complete.

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The death of everything.

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The other day I saw an article about the death of baseball. Every day, we see a dozen articles about the death of television. (See the Ad Co...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Thinking about not thinking.

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There was, to my mind anyway, an important op-ed in yesterday's "New York Times," that, I'm sure, we were all too busy to ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Letter writing in the Tempus Fugit.

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Last night was one of those nights. One of those all-too-often nights that slink into morning like a cat. Where the reasonable hours—li...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Uncle Slappy's Weekly SLAP!

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Friday, April 14, 2017

Ned Doyle gets a lesson.

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11 March 1902 (With spelling and grammar unimproved by the editor’s hand.) So ez I wuz sayin', the rebbe sits dun, he duz in his ...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Nobody asked me but…

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My periodic tribute to the great New York journalist, Jimmy Cannon, who would write a "Nobody asked me but" column when he had no...
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