Friday, March 30, 2012

Why Can't I Stop Laughing?

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This afternoon I was listening to Science Friday on NPR, which was featuring its annual April Fools' Day jokes show.  A good number of...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Ambiguity Reigns in Signature Theatre’s New Play, 'Really Really'

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When Haley, the sister of the protagonist in Signature Theatre ’s new drama, Really Really , first arrives at the beginning of the second ac...
Thursday, February 09, 2012

Interview with Actress Bethany Anne Lind

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Bethany Anne Lind at Signature Theatre Bethany Anne Lind is an Atlanta-based actress who plays the role of “Leigh” in Signature Theatre’s...

Interview with Playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo

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Signature Theatre’s press release announcing its next production, Really Really , begins like this: “An elite university. A not-to-be-mis...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

How Slippery Is Santorum?

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Rick Santorum in Richmond, October 2010 Two days before he placed a distant third in the South Carolina GOP presidential primary, former ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Tim Donner Withdraws from U.S. Senate Race

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Tim Donner in Richmond Norman Leahy had the story first at Bearing Drift:  U.S. Senate candidate Tim Donner has ended his quest for th...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas in Milwaukee - 1967

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Back in 2008, I offered my recollections of how my family celebrated Christmas as I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. Now I have s...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Top Ten Charlottesville Libertarian Examiner Stories for 2011

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Much of my effort in on-line reporting during 2011 has been devoted to regular contributions of articles to Examiner.com as the Charlottesv...
Monday, December 19, 2011

The Little Typo That Could

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Over on the most-neglected of my three blogs, Where Are the Copy Editors? , I have only created one post during the entire calendar year of ...

Replying to Critics of My RTD Piece on Theodore Roosevelt

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Over the weekend, the Richmond Times-Dispatch published an opinion piece I wrote with the headline, " Why does Obama channel racist TR...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Yes, But Why Thursday?

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Every year about this time, a gently nagging but generally fleeting question crosses my mind. Why, I wonder, is Thanksgiving celebrated on...