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Star Wars-No spoilers yet allowed

On Christmas Eve, following some last minute shopping as is my tradition, I went to see Star Wars VII-The Force Awakens. All in all, I thought Disney did a good job with the movie. I do have some...

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Recent Reading

While I was back in the land of the free and the home of the stupid and overweight, I had a chance to stumble into Barnes and Noble. This was ostensibly for the purpose of purchasing a study guide for...

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Since I was not blogging for the last 10 months I had to do something. Besides dealing with the hassles caused by vindictive assholes who think they have the right to harass a private citizen, I did a...

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Recent Reading

Besides the volume of recent work, I have been deeply involved in several books recently. Not really an excuse for my lack of steady posting, but it did provide a different sort of diversion. Below...

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Recent reading

While I was back in the Whining States of America, I made the obligatory run to Barnes and Noble. I picked up a copy of the Federalist to re-read, my original copy having gone long by the boards when...

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Herman Wouk.

Herman Wouk has passed away at the age of 103, just ten days short of his 104th birthday. According to the Times of Israel, he was “working on a book until the end.” To say this makes me sad is a...

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Shtisel

Is an Israeli TV show that is running on Netflix. I started watching it off and on during my trips to Israel late last fall and in the spring when I was there for a few weeks. I didn’t really get into...

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Shtisel is back!

After an over four-year layoff, the Israeli television series, Shtisel is back on Netflix. I first wrote about the show two years ago. The show originally aired on the Yes Drama network in Israel in...

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The greatest gift given to me.

I watched a documentary about Arthur Miller on HBO Max last night. I cannot recommend it strongly enough. It was a great overview of one of my favorite writers and a truly great American playwright....

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Recent Reading

2021 is refusing to be a decent year, it seems, what with now the omicron surge of the COVID virus and the determined refusal of so many people to take public health measures seriously. It’s a shame...

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