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The Russian FSB picked up where the Soviet KGB left off. The KGB specialized in covert bugs and complicit informants. The FSB uses contemporary technology....
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Beth was a committed vegetarian when we started dating, had been for years. I was several years in, too. And I had cut out dairy and eggs a couple of years...
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This month, a lot of people got worked up about the possibility of mystery drones over New Jersey. We made Orson Welles comparisons. The New York Times...
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If the world is ending, I want to be surrounded by kittens when it happens. Sleeping Marty, JoJo, and Lloyd (top to bottom) Sleepy Marty, JoJo, and Lloyd...
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What are the odds that the worst human was born between 1878 and 1893? The world population in 1945 was about 2.4 billion. If 117 billion people have been...
2024.09.DisappearingMoment
“A device that permits people who haven’t anything to do to watch people who can’t do anything.” That was comedian Fred Allen's description of... television...
2024.08.DisappearingMoment
I stopped following the news and renounced social media in 2012. I stopped following sports in 2016. Over the past couple of years, I let myself start...
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2024.07.DisappearingMoment My favorite record review is about Slint’s Spiderland. Melody Maker ran it in 1991. Steve Albini wrote it. I thought about that...
2024.06.DisappearingMoment
I always wanted my hair to be different. A lot of us felt that way. Many still do. I wanted to look like Kelly from the Bad News Bears. Like Ace Frehley, the...
2024.05.DisappearingMoment
Something you can do for the people you love is prepare a letter of instruction. Like other elements of estate planning, it makes mourning a bit easier. No...