Now that my relationship with Amazon has ended, I am very happy to once again make the entire compliment of Uphill Both Ways available on this blog. I have organized the book on a new page Uphill Both Ways to … Continue reading
I called this Redux because I wrote this one, Social Security less than a year ago. Government programs that you thought you could rely upon are really at the whim of whoever is in office at the time. The other … Continue reading
I grew up in the age of radio. No, not “The Green Hornet” era of radio, but good old AM rock-and-roll radio. The Casey Kasem Top 40 Countdown was a weekly event where he would tell us which songs were … Continue reading
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When I was a sophomore at Tabor, I took a class in Modern European History with George Trautman. Many of my old friends will remember him. He was one of the finest teachers I’ve ever had. On the first class … Continue reading
Now that you have decided you are going to help clean up the planet, you are probably looking for something new that you can do this year. You replaced all the incandescent light bulbs in the house with the new … Continue reading
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We all have our hometown. Mine isn’t Boston, I was born on the Cape. But I went to college there, I worked there, and I loved it there. Boston isn’t the biggest town, it’s not the oldest town, and it’s … Continue reading
“Gentlemen we can rebuild him, we have the technology” is in the opening to the fanciful 1970’s TV series The Six Million Dollar Man. Interestingly, no one ever asks if we should rebuild him, because it is somehow assumed that … Continue reading
In honor of the receipt of my very first Social Security check deposit this week, I thought it appropriate to look into some of the myths of the Social Security Administration. In these days of off-the-chart deficit spending, raising the … Continue reading
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