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Dancing Around the Death Penalty

Posted on 08/07/2012 by

My TIME.com column today on the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the death penalty: Central casting couldn’t produce a better illustration of what’s wrong with the death penalty than Marvin Wilson, the 53-year-old Texan with an IQ of 61 who … Continue reading →

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Does Not Inspire Confidence

Posted on 07/29/2012 by

I don’t know about you but I actually DO want British Airways to test its engines a bit more meticulously than its Stilton.

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How To Fix Our Schools!

Posted on 07/18/2012 by

Let’s do a thought experiment: Imagine you have a really complicated surgical problem. Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm, let’s say. Just a little bulge in the body’s major vessel that extends from the chest to the abdomen that delivers a little blood … Continue reading →

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Happy Independence Day!

Posted on 07/04/2012 by

I just picked up my sister and her family at the airport on their way back from a four-year stint serving overseas with the State Department. There were several families of service men and women at the airport, waiting for … Continue reading →

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Put A Lid On It

Posted on 05/03/2012 by

Remember how in the West Wing, CJ Cregg/Allison Janney would always say “That’s a lid” at the end of her press briefing and the reporters wouldn’t get any more news from her? My sister and I have been wondering if … Continue reading →

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Daily Dose of Drama

Posted on 04/14/2012 by

In case your life is feeling a little dull:

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The Little State That Could

Posted on 04/13/2012 by

Every time I drive my nephew out to Western MA, I laugh out loud at signs like “Belchertown” and “Athol,” so I thought you’d enjoy this list of mostly fake Massachusetts town names: Lameham Methol Shamesbury Blight Falls Mansocket Whitefolk … Continue reading →

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Jesus is not a homophobe

Posted on 04/09/2012 by

My Time.com article today: Good news for Ohio’s gay and lesbian students: You can be openly gay once a year now that Wayne Local School District officials have granted a small concession, after a little nudge from a lawsuit, and … Continue reading →

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Missing Pants

Posted on 04/07/2012 by

I just thought this was funny and I was too tired to write last night.  (Enjoy your spring celebrations. I’ll be back Monday with another Time.com column.)

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Me and Donald Rumsfeld

Posted on 04/06/2012 by

We have something in common, Donald and me. Also Nabokov and Winston Churchill and Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo Da Vinci and, oh, let’s just throw in Virginia Woolf for gender balance and whatnot… I use a standing desk. Actually, I … Continue reading →

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