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Buzzing 2, Masked Men 0
Read more: Buzzing 2, Masked Men 0Blows against the empire, so far futile. Two exterminators have come to my balcony empire, attempting to lay siege to and destroy the wasp’s nest nestled in the high eaves leading from terrace space to room. They have used poison. They have poked and prodded for weaknesses. They have resorted…
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Coronaball
Read more: CoronaballBrad Pitt as Billy Beane of the Oakland Athletics baseball team in the movie version of “Moneyball.” In 2003, American writer Michael Lewis published “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,” a remarkable study of Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team. In a sport…
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Foo fighter
Read more: Foo fighterThe school nurse was a stalwart line of defense against pretenders. When I first arrived in the United States I was saddened to find out that one of my favorite French words, grippe, was known in English as the “foo.” Grippe had gumption, and sounded like what it meant, being jammed up. All…
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“Freed” into fire
Read more: “Freed” into fireSince video footage of the late May police killing of George Floyd was released, rioting has swept the United States. On May 25, 2020, police in Minneapolis arrested George Floyd for alledgedly using a counterfeit $20 bill. During the arrest, one arresting officer, since charged with murder, placed a knee…
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Hollywood “Times”
Read more: Hollywood “Times”A clever disgrace by a high-minded newspaper. Iwill keep this mercifully short. On May 24, a Sunday, “The New York Times” pulled a cheap stunt. It filled its entire front page with the names of 1,000 of America’s nearly 100,000 coronavirus victims. Ostensibly, the gesture was intended as a sincere…
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Exodus
Read more: ExodusThat streetlamp named Venus… The interlopers are leaving now, these creatures that came to roost and burrow in the long period of human absence from streets and boulevards and vicoli, alleyways, from which even the rows of scowling laundry draped across them came for a time to vanish, the consequence of…
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