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A Slave to the Machine (newsletter)
Published by Admin on December 13, 2023[Nothing to say about Gaza this time around, to your relief. But it breaks my heart to see it.] First my daughter, then my wife,…
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Published by Admin on November 16, 2023I feel guilty for allowing a pet to die, but not as guilty as certain national leaders should feel. Here’s the story. In 2009, after…
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Published by Admin on August 18, 2023Dear Readers, This month, no august pronouncements, just some random thoughts. Well, just one diatribe: Tech companies want to make themselves indispensable for anyone who…
Leave a CommentThe Manichean Candidate (Newsletter)
Published by Admin on July 26, 2023Named after a third-century Persian prophet named Mani, Manicheism is an extreme form of dualistic gnosticism. It is gnostic because it promises salvation through the…
Leave a CommentTwo Literary Losses (Newsletter)
Published by Admin on June 15, 2023“I’m not writing for a particular audience. The reader in mind is me. If someone else would write these books I could go play golf.”…
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Published by Admin on May 25, 2023Dear Readers, This month’s newsletter is brought to you by the letter G. To start you off, here’s a typographic riddle. I saw this text…
Leave a CommentEphemera Are Us (Newsletter)
Published by Admin on April 19, 2023This is a story about why technological innovation should worry us as our lives inexorably shift online, if only because innovation begets obsolescence. Fourteen years…
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How the Empire Thinks (Bulletin)
Published by Admin on April 6, 2023Dear Readers, Just a quickie to tide you over while I assemble sources and thoughts for the next newsletter, on the fragility of our stories.…
Leave a CommentThe State of the Onion (Newsletter)
Published by Admin on February 25, 2023Today would have been my mother’s 113th birthday. Even at 80, when this picture was taken in her Connecticut living room, Sophie Dutton was a…
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