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ON THE AVENUES: Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon (The Big...
From the former NA Confidential, November 15, 2020.
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Pedestrians being hit by cars is a car problem. Car congestion is a car problem. Noise and...
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Strong Towns: “The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisis...
It's a funny thing living in Nawbany. The Democrats claim to be progressive, and insist they understand principles pertaining to worldviews like the Strong...
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C’mon, do you really believe Robert Maxwell accidentally fell off that...
At this point in the nation's haphazard experience, most Americans know far too much about Ghislaine Maxwell owing to her connections with the conveniently...
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Our weekly editorial meme: “To the dimmer go the spoils”
Well, you KNOW the way they've always been. Vultures hunt by instinct, not college degrees.
It was May Day in Vienna, 1987
Friday, May 1, 1987 was the 16th day of my second European immersion tour. Prior to arriving in Vienna earlier in the week, it...
Trust me, salads ARE a vegetable
Last Thanksgiving my wife's employer gifted the department with $25 coupons to be applied against purchases of turkey, ham and vegetables. Trust me when...
Prioritizing drivers merely fails everyone else
If our city or any other continually cites favorable traffic accident statistics pertaining to cars ALONE as proof that streets are "safer," this of...
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Welcome to Roger’s web site, an “Exile on Spring Street”
"Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking...
Battered, bruised, and crawling back onto the non-band wagon
"The Dutch blueprint for urban vitality isn’t about bicycles. It’s about refusing to sacrifice vast amounts of the public realm to the private car;...
On Memorial Day, I’d prefer DRINKING beer
A few year ago at a bar I frequented, one of the younger 30-something employees was pushing hard for a Memorial Day promotion to...
There’s plenty of good food to eat without red meat and fowl
In a rare display of resolve, I've been meatless (red meat and fowl) for the first two months of 2021; might as well go...
Out and about, in America, in Europe — and in my cups
This one was written in 2009 and revised in 2014. It hasn't appeared anywhere since, which makes it ripe for a rerun. The biggest...
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An absolute fascination with “The 15 Tallest Skyscrapers of Yugoslavia”
If Donald Niebyl created a calendar with these images I'd snatch one up.
My only visit to Yugoslavia when constituted as such came in 1987,...
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It was May Day in Vienna, 1987
Friday, May 1, 1987 was the 16th day of my second European immersion tour. Prior to arriving in Vienna earlier in the week, it...
Strong Towns: “The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisis Worse”
It's a funny thing living in Nawbany. The Democrats claim to be progressive, and insist they understand principles pertaining to worldviews like the Strong...
The wild, wild Right Bank of the Ohio
Not so long ago, one of the downtown bars within extended staggering distance of our place of residence posted a social media notice in...
