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[lead dropcap="yes"]I have loved sushi for many years, which – if I could go back in time – would shock my 10-year-old self. I hated fish of all kinds[1] and couldn’t choke it down even with all the milk in the world. I hated the texture, I hated... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]A New Year is an opportunity to look back and to look forward and like many people I like to look at the year just completed to assess and to remember, especially the good times. Here, in no particular order, except for the first... [Continue Reading]
Such cheerful men, who helped to lop 988 years off the Thousand Year Reich, are serene reproaches to a nation now simmering with grievance groups that nurse their cherished resentments. The culture of complaint gets no nourishment from men like... [Continue Reading]
The late Father Eugene Morin grew up in Quincy, Mass., but was serving as a priest at Our Lady of Peace Cathedral on December 7, 1941 and shared his recollection of the “day that shall live in infamy” in a letter he wrote in 1978. Fr... [Continue Reading]
For our anniversary dinner, Melanie and I went to a sushi restaurant in nearby Beverly called Kame. It’s not our favorite, Asahi in Salem, but it’s a close second with perhaps the only difference being that it’s further away. The... [Continue Reading]
If you have an Amazon.com wishlist, how do you use it? As a list for you to remember stuff you want to buy? As a wishlist for friends and family to peruse when it’s your birthday or Christmas? As a list for you to use when buying gifts for... [Continue Reading]
Just finished another S.M. Stirling tale of apocalypse and world destruction in an alternate Earth and while it doesn’t measure up to his great series (Island in the Sea of Time and the Changeverse trilogy), nevertheless The Peshawar Lancers... [Continue Reading]
The US House of Representatives today is debating a Democrat-sponsored bill to pay reparations to the people of the Pacific island of Guam for the crimes committed against during World War II by the Japanese Army. (Here’s the text of H.R... [Continue Reading]
There’s nothing quite so fun as a review for a bad movie or restaurant. When it’s done with the proverbial British acid wit, it’s even better. The restaurant critic for London’s Observer reviewed the new restaurant... [Continue Reading]
Are we scaring our kids to death? Peggy Noonan thins we are. She says that while in previous days kids endured duck-and-cover drills and worries about Soviet invasion of Cuba or the WW2-Japanese invading California, but the fear was never as... [Continue Reading]