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Job’s cat
Read more: Job’s catMy favorite cat had a stroke over the winter. My doctor friend gave me the news and added the cat was unlikely to survive more than a few days. As he described it, the cat was a sullen and immobile lump existing on a cushion and fed with a syringe.…
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Wrexit
Read more: WrexitPeter Finch as Howard Beale: “All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad.” There are times when the prescience demands its just due. This is just such a time. In 1976, long before Tea Parties, Trumps and Brexits, American writer Paddy Chayefsky created the character of Howard…
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Stayers and leavers
Read more: Stayers and leaversLeavers carry a heavier burden. Leaving — whether a job, a man, or an untoward situation — usually produces irrational agitation. Something has happened, or has failed to happen, and a point of no return established in cumulative response. As the momentum to leave builds, so does tension. Internal or…
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Orlando
Read more: OrlandoKnowing of “internal” wars is an impossible task. Between 1650 and 1950 there were roughly 40 wars involving three or more nations. War as a purging mechanism peaked in the 20th-century, with two global carnages that killed more than 100 million soldiers and civilians. Countless unofficial skirmishes and ethic hostilities…
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What in ear?
Read more: What in ear?Who was jack? Fifty years ago I reluctantly gave up on building my spacecraft. This wasn’t an easy decision since I’d already made the spindly nose cone from a tin drum and designed a propulsion system involving the wings of several hundred dead insects. The wings were inside the drum…
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Cells
Read more: CellsRed, moving… My American friend likes weather. He uses his Smartphone to visualize its mood swings. He speculates what part of his day bad weather might affect. He points out digital pigtails of orange and red — heavy rain — that might ruin his weekend. “That one’s moving fast,” he’ll…
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