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A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Earlier in the week (Neighbor, how stands the Union?), my attempt to answer a question on “gloom and doom” about politics grew to almost 2500 words. I thought they were excellent words – verging on sp...

Climate Change Killed Pond Hockey

On Long Island in the early 1950s, skating and hockey took place on ponds.  There were two kinds. The first was local and small, where a few families might gather on a weekend afternoon. Then there wa...

Neighbor, how stands the Union?

Questions get tricky when there is only one acceptable answer and they get even trickier when they are asked by Daniel Webster, especially from the grave. The Devil and Daniel Webster by Steven Vin...