Archive for April, 2017

100

C The Romans used a ‘C’ to indicate the number 100.  Late 19th century American educators developed the letter-grading system and assigned the ‘C’ to represent average performance.  So, it seemed to me that there might be some correlation between the two as relates to the one hundred-day milestone of…

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Amazing

On Friday night, I went to see The Amazing Kreskin, (I know, I thought he was dead too, but no, he’s still doing his schtick…although he did blow his big closing bit where he has audience members hide his paycheck which he agrees to forfeit if he can’t intuit its…

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Da Bomb

A lot of what I write about is rooted in my perception of clear-headed, analytical thinking, admittedly judged by my own cogent analysis.  I rarely sway far from my posted theses, although, on rare occasion, a differing opinion has led me to reevaluation, (I read Cuomo’s education bill top to…

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I Have an Idea

If this was Jeopardy, the question would be, “What is a phrase that you’ll never hear from a Republican politician?”  OK…for you purists…”never” should probably have been “seldom”, but would you at least grant that there’s a hard lean towards “never”? The notion that government has a necessary role and…

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Responsibility

Note to the Democratic Congress…:  Your Republican counterparts have made a decision to seek shelter up the ass of a dangerous, mentally unstable, (use this interactive space to fill in your favorite fear-inducing descriptors), Putin-controlled lunatic and, as far as I can tell, only you or the military have remedial…

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