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Red in the middle
Read more: Red in the middleStunning, said The New York Times, but mostly to those of its own ilk. It is a persistent shortcoming of American geography that two of its most influential news organizations, the New York Times and the Washington Post, sit within 200 miles of each other in a sliver of real…
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Vibrator
Read more: VibratorItaly can seem like a red-light district. Up high, when the earth below does its undulating samba, you think of sex. I do. Sex in the way cheap motel mattresses once started shimmying after you stuffed their bedside slit with a dirty old quarter. “¢25 for a relaxing massage,” said…
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The stink
Read more: The stinkBaseball is doing an admirable job of providing a civil, joyous and unifying example of intense but fair competition… The other day the wonderful baseball writer Tom Boswell wrote an unusually touching column about the World Series as a balm. Not just because the two contestants, Cleveland and Chicago —…
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Stoning the glass house
Read more: Stoning the glass houseThe New York Times, albeit carefully, has repeatedly put Trump in its mocking crosshairs. In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks American East Coast media spiraled into anaphylactic shock. Desperately seeking villains but hopelessly under-informed, it embraced the Bush Administration’s ominous interpretation of what had happened and…
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Vilify me
Read more: Vilify meThe Tower of Babel just keeps on growing… Aword I fell for in prehistoric times was hypochondriac. I heard a wife shout it at her husband (I was hiding in the cupboard) and thought it meant loudmouth, which the husband was. Another was vilify, this one used by my father…
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Blind screws
Read more: Blind screwsSmall screws included, if you can see them… Laugh to keep from crying, you say, and I do. Pour a stiff drink, you suggest, but what if I miss — tears of a clown — and the crystal overflows its banks? But this is about a magnifying glass, that seemingly…
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