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Yea, though I walk . . .
...through The Valley of Elah Well, I went and did it again. That is, I put a film on my Netflix queue without any idea of what it was really about. But I got lucky this time with In The Valley of Elah. Based on actual events, it stars Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize...
What’s “normal” got to do with it?
A hole in our heads? Or our hearts? Why they call it Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus entirely escapes me. There's nothing normal about it. For obvious reasons, however, the condition's name has been shortened to its initials: NPH. The cause of the condition also...
Plucked out of the flood
Only to be cast on the funeral pyre As often is the case, I'm not quite sure how I came to have Netflix send me the 1927 German film, Metropolis. But it finally moved to the top of my queue the other day and showed up in the mail box. Directed by Fritz Lang, it's...
There are unquiet minds
And slightly less unquiet minds Steve Kinsky's an old friend. We first met when we were both in a professional organization for health insurance agents. We've stayed in touch since we retired. We're both widely read, although our tastes sometimes differ since Steve...
The Cast Iron Man
Statesman or Politician? The Long View or A Suitcase of Cash? My family, all 12 of us, just dodged a bullet. A few days ago we got back from a nifty vacation in Charleston, South Carolina. Long walks on the beach. History. Southern comfort food. The mayhem of...
Diabolical
A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma Unless, like me, you've been under a rock for the last four years or so, you've probably heard of Milo Yiannopoulos. I only learned of him about two years ago; it's dark under those rocks. Incendiary provocateur....