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Flat tire in the Rockies
Last weekend we jumped into our temperamental little black roadster and headed for the mountains. If ever there was a top down, wind in your face, blue sky, dazzling sun two-lane blacktop day, Sunday was it. It was a day for German engineering, Rocky Mountain splendor and glowing aspens on the back road to Cripple [...]
Continue reading...Steel dragons and Brooklyn Dodgers
Friday, February 12, 2010
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As a kid, I rooted for the Dodgers – not the treacherous, transplanted L.A. Dodgers, but the real Dodgers, the Brooklyn Dodgers. And if you rooted for the star-crossed denizens of Ebbets Field, you also hated the Yankees. The Yankees were everything that the Dodgers weren’t – successful, organized, methodical, relentless, and inevitable. You knew [...]
Continue reading...County commissioners “advise” on U.S. trade policy
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Can there be anything more meaningless than the resolutions that local governments throughout our great land churn out on a daily basis? Most of them are feel-good thank you notes to worthy citizens, non-profits, retiring employees, and fresh-faced schoolchildren. Few of us object to such gestures (other than a certain curmudgeonly taxophobe who once served [...]
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
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