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From the August 31, 2024 LA Times:  [Note the digital and facsimile editions have different titles.]   As someone who taught public administ...

A link to Capacious led me into a rabbit hole that didn't let go for several hours.  As an academic, I found the first story too real a...

This is an important interview by Brian Taylor Cohen, one of the brightest and most articulate commentators (I want to say on the air, and h...

"79 is a  prime number ...  79 has 2 factors, 1 and 79. It's the 22nd prime number . . ." from  Prime Number fandom ELIE WIESE...

I started this post a week or so ago.  And I previously posted about David Scheel's book, Many Things Under a Rock .   But our book clu...

 The moose are out this week.  Tuesday, walking toward Goose Lake we ran into a cow and calf.  Two bikers and a runner had already alerted u...

I've got a bunch of started posts, but finishing them gets hard.  Don't want to just be another opinion without strong evidence.  Do...

 My bookclub is reading The Street  by Ann Petry this month.   It was first published in 1946.  Remember that date.  It says on the cover of...

 I'm reading Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet  by Michael Meyer.  Since my bookclub discusses Ike's Gamble  Monday, this title seeme...

 Someone left a link to this book in a comment on a totally unrelated post - at least I didn't see any connection.   But Rachel worked i...

Wednesday night my daughter and I went to Bainbridge High School to hear author J.B MacKinnon.  He was interviewed on stage by local Bainbri...

Demon Copperhead won a Pulitzer Prize and has had lots of publicity so I won't add much to what's out there, only to note some simil...

This is a tale about a journalist who writes an article based on what a friend with a new high level job in DC told her.  She pretty much wr...