Monday, September 2, 2024

Starlight and Me: A Love Story

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Me: Can I have a conversation with you in which you respond as if you are my girl friend? ChatGPT said: I'm here to help and chat with y...
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Saturday, August 31, 2024

Gallipoli Remembered: The Anguish Behind "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda"

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"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is one of the most powerful antiwar songs of the past century. I can't recall the first...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Throwback Thursday: Three David Foster Wallace Blog Posts, an Essay and Four Quotes

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The very talented DFW. (Photo: Creative Commons 2.0) In 2016 I got into a Davd Foster Wallace groove after being inspired by his superb Roge...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

By the Waters of Babylon...

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By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our lyres.  --Psalm 137:1-2 H...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Nothingness, Revisited (A Poem)

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Nothingness 2.0 In the hush between breaths, where silence swells like a forgotten wave, I find the edge of nothingness— a place where thoug...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

We're Going Wrong: New Twist on an Old Cream Classic

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Sons of Cream, Newton Theater, August 16, 2024 Cream was one of the distinctive supergroups of the 60s.  "We're Going Wrong" i...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Why the Court Is Independent of the Executive Branch

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There are reasons the Founding Fathers of our fledgling Republic distributed power amongst three branches of government. They were well awar...