Friday, November 20, 2020

Flashback Friday: Goofs

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Last night I started watching A River Runs Through It, a film directed by Robert Redford based on a novella by Norman Maclean, who also co-...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Throwback Thursday: An Early Formative Experience

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“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things… I am tempted to think there are no little things.” ~Bruce B...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Baby Boomer Death Clock

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One of my favorite Woody Allen lines is, "I'm not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens."  Death ...
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Spielberg's The Terminal Pushes All the Right Buttons

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This week I watched The Terminal again for the first time in perhaps 10 or 12 years. Funny thing is, although I remembered the story line I ...
Monday, November 16, 2020

Kim Ng Becomes First Female General Manager of a Major League Sports Team

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What does a GM do in Major League Baseball? To find out, watch Brad Pitt in Moneyball . Or, if you prefer, read the book. It's a good bo...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

A New Thought Regarding Agatha Christie's Crime Stories

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Many years ago I had a friend who was going through an Agatha Christie binge. Actually, both he and his wife were thoroughly absorbed in rea...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

Mistakes -- A Handful of Observations

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The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the p...