A Blister to My Eye

A week passed with an insufficient number of pages has been a blister to my eye. - Anthony Trollope

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Musical Notes: A Brief History

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For countless generations, musical notes were laboriously constructed by hand. This limited the quantity of music humans could produce, but ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Spare Me Your Secular Solstice Celebration

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Celebration of the winter solstice has been growing in popularity for quite a few years. That’s not just the case among those who style them...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

I Remember Self–Censorship in Apartheid South Africa

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I remember being told not to repeat to other kids what I heard my parents say about the government. I remember my parents ordering me to rew...
Saturday, October 11, 2025

The Writer and His Novel—a Troubled Marriage

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Forty or more years ago, I tried to write a short autobiographical novel stemming from what was then a fairly recent episode in my life. I d...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Law and Order, Waste and Fraud, Close the Border, and Lose Your Rights

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For quite a long time, we heard “Law and Order” as the GOP/right wing/plutocratic war cry. My memory is that it started with Nixon, or at l...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

It’s Classical Music Is What It Is

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When I was a kid in South Africa, my parents always had the radio tuned to SABC, the South African Broadcasting Company, the English–languag...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

Mike Johnson dismisses angry citizens at town halls as "paid protestors"

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All X Are Yish

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"All elements of set X have property Y." "But a is an element of X and doesn't have property Y." "Yes, a is an ...
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