I don’t know why—but today, as I was about to go to my computer, I thought, “I wonder if antibiotics can contribute to weight gain?” It makes a certain amount of sense as a possibility. After all, it’s long been … Continue reading →
I saw this trailer in the movie theater the other day and laughed out loud, especially at the sequence that starts at 1:51:
Continue reading →The poet Robert Frost, about whom I’ve written a good deal and whose Collected Works are pictured at the top of my blog, gave a great many campus talks in his day. I’m currently reading a book of excepts from … Continue reading →
Tiny New Hampshire is always a very volatile and difficult-to-predict state. Its Republican voters are also considered somewhat atypical; more libertarian-leaning, with fewer social conservatives and more fiscal conservatives. But it does have a primary that occurs early in the … Continue reading →
I’ve never much cared for the ballet “The Dying Swan.” It’s not really a ballet; more like a short vignette. It was choreographed by Mikhail Fokine near the turn of the century (19th-20th) as a vehicle for international star Anna … Continue reading →
Commenter “Ira” asks an interesting question—particularly for those among us who think that, if nominated, Donald Trump either would lose in the general or if elected would be a poor president (I happen to think both are true). Here’s what … Continue reading →
Greetings, 2016. Let’s be friends. My resolutions are the same as usual—which tells you how successful I am at keeping them. The first is to stay away from sugar for a couple of months and see how that goes (now … Continue reading →
A very HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you! Are you planning anything fun?
Continue reading →One evening when my son was about four years old, he had stopped watching TV or otherwise amusing himself and had come into the kitchen to stand there for a moment while I stood at the stove, cooking dinner. He … Continue reading →
Just read the whole thing. Excellent.
Continue reading →For obvious reasons—his good polling against Hillary—there’s been an ongoing press attempt to dig up the dirt on Rubio. This is the latest effort, an article about how in 2002 Rubio helped an ex-con brother-in-law obtain a real estate license … Continue reading →
…on Donald Trump’s appearance.
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