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We The People

On July 1, 2011 By

Every Independence Day, I like to stop and give thought to the words that helped give birth to our nation. Among the most important of these, as well as the most poetic, are of course those found in the Preamble to the Constitution.

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The April 2011 issue of Birding Business magazine features my article “In Praise of Porro Binoculars.”

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C.P. Cavafy on Scapegoats

On November 18, 2010 By

“What’s going to happen to us without barbarians?”

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…that’s why it’s disturbing, because I want people to be disturbed. It seems to me it’s the only way things are ever going to change.

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