Sometimes we need to touch the holes

In 1966, the year after I graduated high school, while I was still attending U.S. Navy schools to learn about building and repairing electronic devices to keep the world safe from tyranny, a six-year-old boy was cowering in the corner of a tiny room in a tiny village, hiding from police attacks likely to leave [...]

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Why I root for …

I hung a Terrible Towel in my cubicle last week. I’d just returned from a Steelers-Eagles game, and brought home the souvenir.
One of the guys took me to task.
“Didn’t I like the Miami Dolphins?” he asked, just before he ran to tell our editor the scales had just been tipped, even if ever so slightly, [...]

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Race Card and Michael Vick

There have been some rather loud protestations from those who think the recent attacks on Michael Vick are due to the pigmentation of his skin.
Maybe I wasn’t paying attention, but I don’t recall anyone saying Pete Rose was banned from baseball because he was White. He was banned from baseball because he bet on games [...]

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Satellites and (not white) powdered sugar

A federal judge in New York ruled last week that police did not need court authorization to remotely follow Robert Moran’s car. Moran is a lawyer police suspected of working with a local Hells Angels Motorcycle Club that was selling methamphetamine.
Rather than infiltrating the organization, (they pointed out the Angels are less than divine in [...]

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