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Panama, Canada, Greenland and Donald
As Trump gets closer and closer actually to being President anxieties are, I think, increasing among his non-fans about what he plans to do. The obvious split in his supporters between MAGA types and Musk types is to me not a cause for great joy in that it’s almost one of those contests where you…
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New Author and Terrific Book
Meg Wolitzer-“Belzhar,” copyright 2014 by Penguin Random House 264 pgs Well, OK, Meg Wolitizer is not exactly a new author. But she’s new to me as I’m not really conversant with all the latest stuff in the literary world. But I’d like to be. I might have found this book through such a connection. As…
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The Republicans Go To the Bathroom
With the historically brief exception of 1792-1815, the House of Bourbon ruled France from the Middle Ages until 1830. This latter date was the end of the Bourbons, as rulers, largely because of Charles X, last Bourbon (reigning)King who ruled 1824-1830. Their fall came through a revolution brought on largely by Charles’s misrule, trying to…
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Racing and Guessing toThe End
This is Wednesday-the election is Tuesday. It’s coming, folks and while many have already voted. many others, perhaps the majority, have not. So campaigning is still important and we’re getting as much as you’d expect and maybe a bit more. And there are significantly important things happening now, mostly in the US and the campaign,…
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Story Tellers Change but Spenser Stories Stay the Same–Mostly At Least
“Robert B Parker’s Someone to Watch Over Me,” by Ace Atkins G P Putnam’s Sons, copyright 2020 306 pp Robert B Parker was the leader of American mystery/detective fiction writing for a generation or more. Born in 1932, he began to publish in the 1970’s and he died in January, 2010. There were competitors, but…
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Closing In On–Well, What?
I haven’t written much about politics lately. I guess my writing urges have been worn down by too much political use. But I need to speak–briefly, anyway–about what is going on now. It appears that Trump has slightly closed the gap between himself and Harris and it now appears, at least for the moment, one…
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Fall and Mysteries– a Good Match
G M Malliet, “The Haunted Season,” St Martin’s Press 2015 Richard Osman, “The Bullet That Missed”–Viking –2022 To a real mystery fan anytime is a good time to start reading one, but fall, my favorite season, and the one most given to Mystery is, it seems to me the best. I’ve got two I want…
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Nothing Before to Match This
It is less than two months now until election day. Of course, many votes will be cast before that, so the process has, to some small extent, already begun. I am always excited and awed by national US elections, especially Presidential ones. For one who follows public affairs it nearly always seems to be the…
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Debate Reflections
We’ve all had a day or two to reflect upon The Debate and to form opinions about it. The ones I’ve read or heard on TV tend to be fairly, though not absolutely, predictable. For the most part people on each side think(or say that they do)that their candidate won. Though I am admittedly not…
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