Friday, November 28, 2014

Black Friday Becomes 'Green Friday' Where Pot Is Legal

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This headline caught my eye: " Va. ABC stores to offer Black Friday discounts ." The AP story, posted on the web site of ABC New...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

'How Many Shopping Days Until Christmas?'

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If you landed here because you asked your search engine, "How many shopping days until Christmas?," the answer as this went to pre...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Upcoming: Ten-Year 'Blogoversary' / Requested: Your Comments

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Nine years and 11 months ago today, I posted my first blog entry , which said, in part: It took a while, but I've been sucked into the...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Stating the obvious in a single newspaper headline

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Charlottesville's Daily Progress wins the prize for stating the obvious in its banner headline on Sunday, October 12. There, above th...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Does Georgetown University Have the World's Smallest Athletic Facility?

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As an alumnus of Georgetown University, today I received an email alert that tomorrow there will be a live webcast of the groundbreaking ce...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Fuzzy memories of elections past

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An odd letter made its way into the Charlottesville Daily Progress today. The letter, submitted by Albemarle County resident Hubert Haw...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Washington Post reporter gets several historical facts wrong

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An article in the print edition of the Washington Post on Sunday, July 27 (p. C5), includes three glaring errors that would have resulted i...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Adventures in the Land of the Mathematically Challenged

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A letter to the editor in today's Daily Progress tries to draw attention to the problem of expensive housing in the Charlottesville ar...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

50 Years Later, Barry Goldwater's GOP Convention Speech Still Resonates

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“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice” was the biggest applause line of Barry Goldwater's speech accepting his party's nominat...
Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Has my interview with Ed Gillespie gone viral?

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U.S. Senate candidate Ed Gillespie Last weekend I interviewed Ed Gillespie , the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Virginia,...
Friday, July 04, 2014

Gay Equality Protest at Independence Hall - July 4th, 1968

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A year before the Stonewall riots sparked what's become known as the modern gay-rights movement, pioneering advocates for gay equality -...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

Are Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber an 'Emerging Threat'?

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Last week the celebrity gossip pages were reporting the news that the on-again, off-again romance of bad boy Justin Bieber and Disney Chann...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Flag Day Flashback: Does the U.S. Flag Merit Special Protection?

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Today is Flag Day, and thus an appropriate time to revisit an article I wrote almost 15 years ago about flag desecration. The context that...