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Beers with a Stoic: Your luxury beer “list” reeks, so stop...
Consider the following a composite.
One thing I've always tried to do is advocate for my segment.
It means nothing negative to me if an everyday...
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Technically Challenged
The Mysterious Case of the Departing Policemen
There was an opinion piece in the Jeffersonville News and Tribune.
OUR VIEW: New Albany Police Department, city must be transparent about resignations
Over the span...
Miscellany
A reminder: “Welcome to the last will and testament of NA...
15 December 2022 Preface: I've been asked if I would consider getting back into the game, resuming my role as dissident, once again speaking...
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Books: “The Cold War from the Margins” in Bulgaria
In May I read a good book about a little-known aspect of the Cold War.
The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State...
Diary: “The moral and aesthetic nightmare of Christmas,” by the late, great Christopher Hitchens
In 2021, I pleased the local powers-that-be by allowing the NA Confidential blog to run its course, and by doing so, liberated myself from...
Bock beer’s back story, because the time draws near
Is Bock the G.O.A.T.?
This question has been nagging me since Jimmy Carter was in office.
All I knew for sure at the time was that...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Eight: The founding of F.O.S.S.I.L.S. in 1990
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Seven: Ladislav’s language — or, teaching credentials from a tiki bar in Ostrava.
Today's installment requires a short introduction...
Diary
What I do that occasionally equates to a monthly house payment
For those who've just tuned in to my periodic "Notes from the Underground," kindly note that I hold two minor positions inside the New...
ON THE AVENUES: A design for life
Originally written in 2016, lightly edited here.
Throughout my decidedly mediocre high school basketball career, members of the coaching staff often administered what they surely...
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...
Diary for 28 July 2021: “Craft” is especially nonsensical when tacked to “hard” seltzer
The point of these “diary” entries is to write as the mood strikes me, in the moment.
I'd suggest we piss on hard seltzer, but...
Diary for 24 July 2021: Oversight of government entities? By the News and Tribune?
Let's begin by defining our terms for those just tuning in.
The News and Tribune (N&T) is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) daily newspaper serving...
Recipes for Chaos
Diary: Endeavour Morse, Joseph Brodsky and coping with the darkness of...
Back on October 27, 2019 at NA Confidential, I undertook to explain a reference I'd previously made to New Albany as the Open Air...