Stew and I are avid movie watchers—this year we had seen most of the Oscar nominees for Best Picture—but we are also impatient with the notoriously long-winded award ceremonies. We record the broadcast so we can zip through the endless commercials, meh comedy skits, acceptance speeches that turn into orations, and other chaff that consume …
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Sick and tired of reading, hearing and writing about the Covid-19 pandemic, and now the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, and the ensuing street protests, I'm going to turn my attention to something that's been bothering me for awhile: The silliness of "Latinx", a neologism that's gained traction over the past few …
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As if life weren't baffling enough at sea level, news came last week that, for the first time, astrophysicists had photographed a black hole, several billion times the size of our sun and located 55 million light-years away from the earth. A light-year is about 5.88 trillion miles.Here's looking at you, black hole.Then, about a …
Though condemned by the Right and the Left, a bit more political correctness would benefit us all A couple of years ago, during a luncheon at an idyllic countryside restaurant outside San Miguel, I inadvertently dropped the "R-bomb", when I referred to mentally disabled people as "retarded." A good friend of ours at the table, who has a …
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