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Old Farts Farting
Would you please tell me what the dinky heck is with all the farting after 60? I’ve always farted, and so have you. We all fart. But since I turned 60, man, the farts just come out no matter what. I used to be able to pretty much control them, to hold them back and…
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My Proustian Questionnaire
If ever I was on The Actor’s Studio, here’s how I might answer Mr. Lipton’s questions. Based, as he says, on Bernard Pivot‘s version of Marcel Proust’s questionnaire. What is your favorite word? Awesome What is your least favorite word? The N word. I hate even to say “the N word.” What turns you on?…
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Jefferson’s Memorial Set Apart for Good Reason
The Jefferson Memorial stands in quiet grandeur on the south side of the Tidal Basin, well away from Lincoln’s and Washington’s memorials. That distance, 0.896 miles from Jefferson to Lincoln and 0.563 miles from Jefferson to Washington, seems more than appropriate given Jefferson’s complex and exceedingly frustrating personality. The more I read about this particular…
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Lucky Man
I’m a lucky man. A lucky, lucky man. I discovered history before it was too late. When I was younger — much, much younger — I hated history. Hated it. Thought that history was just a bunch of old guys who didn’t know any better and that we people of the now are just so much more…
