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Are you a good deipnosophist?

For two weeks, I have shared with readers entries from “The Careful Writer” by Theodore M. Bernstein.

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It’s the sensational atomic flyswatter!

Let’s continue reading entries from “The Careful Writer” by Theodore M. Bernstein, like we did last week. Or ...

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Good tips from ‘The Careful Writer’

The first editor I had coming out of college was a Pulitzer Prize winner named Michael Gartner.

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It’s hard to be grown up around children

So I am in a play, and there are several children in this play. For some reason, at ...

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The best websites, if you like to read

My favorite website, of course, is the Albert Lea Tribune.

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When the courts fail, we all lose

Boy, there sure have been a lot of things that have made me doubt the justice system lately.

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When will Voyager 1 cross the heliopause?

Our country and its people have accomplished some astounding feats, from being the world leader in human rights ...

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Sports teach same lesson over and over

There is a lesson that sports teach us time and time again. Whether you watch sports or participate ...

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Cars are the most socialist transportation

One of the biggest arguments some car drivers make when they describe why they don’t like bikes, bike ...

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College football is no fun to watch anymore

Why watch college football?

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Politics requires civility, compassion

Civility in politics. It’s important. Let me tell you all about a story that illustrates this point.

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War of ideas will end when boomers exit

Why is it that for the past 15 to 20 years contentiousness in American politics has been on ...

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Colonists didn’t oppose merely being taxed

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about why America declared independence and what we ...

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Forrest and I plant an oak in the back yard

This is a story about an oak named Boji.

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Will rock ever return to the pop charts?

I miss rock ’n’ roll.

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