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    This is a good time to be alive

    Posted on March 7, 2016 by moc
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    I’ll admit that after one episode of Season Four of House of Cards I was a bit disappointed. I’d thought the magic was finally gone and I was watching just another show worthy of about a third-rate cable station, one that … Continue reading →

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    From the sad to the sublime

    Posted on March 4, 2016 by moc
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    One of my two best friends in the world has a birthday tomorrow. He’s the little boy who calls me “Daddy” and tomorrow he’s turning two. He doesn’t know it, but I’m sure he’ll be happy about all the attention. … Continue reading →

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    Anniversary is the worst

    Posted on March 2, 2016 by moc
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    It’s been a full decade since the worst day of my life: March 2, 2006, the day my best friend was killed in an automobile accident at the age of 23. For reasons I can’t explain or perhaps wish to … Continue reading →

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    Leap Day

    Posted on February 29, 2016 by moc
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    Today is Leap Day, an unusual date on our calendar. Here are a few other unusual things that occurred yesterday that made me ponder cosmic alignments this day. Caps lose.  Whoa. That doesn’t happen often. Is it the playoffs already? … Continue reading →

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    A little baseball tease before the season begins

    Posted on February 26, 2016 by moc
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    You’ll remember a few months ago I had the pleasure of spending the afternoon in Frederick, Maryland, seeing some legit minor league baseball with an affable group of baseball devotees (see post of August 3, 2015). I was more or … Continue reading →

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    Trump effect is everywhere

    Posted on February 24, 2016 by moc
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    Last night my local school board—they’re also my employer—voted to cancel school next Tuesday. That’s Presidential Primary Day in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Can’t have the kids in school with all those angry Trump voters roaming the halls! Don’t get … Continue reading →

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    Trumping the competition

    Posted on February 22, 2016 by moc
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    With victories now in consecutive state primaries, it seems Donald Trump should cruise to the Republican nomination for President. (I should probably have picked another word than “cruise.”) Much depends, of course, on next Tuesday’s “SEC” primary, which includes not … Continue reading →

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    We have come to the beginning yet again

    Posted on February 19, 2016 by moc
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    Robins, larks, groundhogs, the Easter bunny… nothing says Spring quite like those four arousing words: pitchers and catchers report. It begins. … Continue reading →

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    Non-nude Playboy making few headlines

    Posted on February 17, 2016 by moc
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    The “most highly anticipated issue of Playboy in our history” has been on newsstands for nearly a week now, and damned if I haven’t heard a thing about it. If a fully-clothed woman falls in a magazine, does it make … Continue reading →

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    Season Two begins

    Posted on February 15, 2016 by moc
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    Snowed in with no school and nothing to do until 10:00 tonight. Commence Better Call Saul Season One marathon! I think if I start now I’ll be caught up by tonight’s premiere. Life. Is. Good. … Continue reading →

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