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Throwback Thursday: More Gobbledygook!
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This is a Throwback Thursday rerun, but with new follow-up information, as well.
So, you know, this is your lucky week, since yesterday I posted something new, Wackadoodle Wednesday.
A year ago, I wrote about EPONYM...
Wackadoodle Wednesday: You Oughta be in Pictures
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I’m afraid this is where we are right now. We wake up, we read the news, and we’re told about the latest puerile, AI-generated fantasy images that Donald Trump, the President of the United States, has posted during the...
Spreading the Word...
It was sweltering in this airless little room in Nicosia, Cyprus. Flop sweat cascaded from my forehead like a summer rainstorm as I prepared to ride down to Larnaca to cover the historic arrival of Palestinian soldiers who had been expelled...
Throwback Thursday: Symphonic, but Moronic!
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I don’t know what I was thinking when I first posted today’s Throwback Thursday story one year ago. I guess I must have been sniffing airplane glue or something.
The story, Symphonic, but Moronic, was a collection of...
Running A-Mock....
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“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
— Cartoonist Walt Kelly
I think I’ve become a real research nerd, scooting from rabbit hole to rabbit hole. I’m sort of a simpleton’s version of Heather Cox Richardson, which is...
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Lifelong journalist, more than 30 years with Reuters, a wealth of experiences from interviewing Kurt Vonnegut to Dolly Parton, and much, much more. Traveled the world, now living in a historic Tudor home haunted by an actual Baroness.
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