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Listen to the Mockingbird
I have read that “Sununu”, in Arabic, means “little bird.” Hard to resist punning on that. John Sununu, on July 17, in a Fox interview, is quoted saying about Obama, “He has no idea how the American...
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A Very Hypothetical Question
Let us imagine, quite hypothetically, a Roman Catholic Pope, in his 80s, who is told by his physician that he is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. The Pope in question is well-read in canon law and...
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Does Stephen Hawking Watch “The Making of…”?
We learn from various documentaries on making movies and TV programs that directors almost always do scenes in some order other that what the viewer (and probably the screenwriter) would consider...
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On Not Dying in Vain
How does victory confer retroactive meaning on the deaths of the winning side’s soldiers? For that matter, what is the “meaning” of a death? Obviously, I have been nudged into this line of inquiry...
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On Not Dying in Vain
How does victory confer retroactive meaning on the deaths of the winning side’s soldiers? For that matter, what is the “meaning” of a death? Obviously, I have been nudged into this line of inquiry by...
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All In the Family
The tradition of the “Roman father” is long gone and so utterly forgotten today that most of us don’t even remember what the phrase means. It goes back to the early days of the Roman Republic, when...
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What Would You Add to the Bill of Rights?
Apparently I’m not the only person doing this thought-experiment — http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/what-would-you-add-to-the-bill-of-rights/275250/. Privacy seems to be on...
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More Constitutional Revisions: Cities, States, and City-States
Those of us who still remember studying ancient history in the 6th grade or whenever know the concept of the city-state. Athens, Sparta, Thebes, those guys. The cognoscenti attribute their rise to...
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Terrorism, Bad Spelling, and National Defense Fellowships
Does anybody else remember the National Defense Education Agency? They were set up shortly after the Russians put a satellite in orbit, back in the late 1950s or thereabouts. Our leaders determined...
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The Mad Dash, the End of the Hyphen, and the Tree of Information
Just the other day, I read two articles online about vanishing punctuation marks, the exclamation point and the apostrophe to be specific. The culprit in the case of the apostrophe is The Domestic...
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