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An ongoing chronicle of what I can remember after 40 years...
The following post at Food & Dining Magazine is repeated verbatim from Wednesday. We've been having website issues, and my workspace somewhat resembles a...
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Hip Hops: Craft beer, still “brewed for flavor and drinkability”
I may be missing someone, but it appears that with the possible exception of Louisville Ale Trail, I'm the only writer currently devoting attention...
Miscellany
Beware, yuletide oupistidophobes, ‘cuz I’m watching you
(This guest column first appeared in December of 2009 at the former New Albany Tribune. It has been updated and lightly tweaked.)
Phobias are among...
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1970s-era albums for December, 2025
Updated December 10, 2025
Nostalgia regularly afflicts me, and as a result, I endeavor to keep it at arm’s length.
But 2025 has been such a...
Menu Items: A kebab at the steakhouse door? But it’s from the Kebab Kid!
Originally published at Food & Dining Magazine on 24 October 2021.
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In case you missed the news, food prices have gone up.
Furious diner left stunned...
Justin Brown is my preferred candidate for Floyd Circuit Court Judge
“All politics is local.”
So the legendary Boston ward heeler Tip O’Neill said, and in the main, he was right.
However, in recent years those big,...
Diary 11 December 2021: That ol’ bait and switch, forever
https://www.rogerbaylor.com/2021/12/09/diary-9-dec-2021-political-patronage-police-empowerment-and-sheer-paranoia/
This is America, after all, and given the probability that each one of us has been duped by the unscrupulous from time to time,...
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Diary for 19 September 2021: Your shrinking attention spans annoy me
If there is any one common denominator to help explain the ever bottoming nadir of daily life in the industrialized (and desperately sick) world,...
Diary: Atlas Shrugged and how Bob Youngblood taught me to appreciate Charles Dickens
At best, I tend to regard Ayn Rand as a sociopath, and yet I’ve read her ball-boiling pot-buster (and seemingly interminable) novel Atlas Shrugged.
Why...
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...
Make your own fun, but I will not carry a gun
I will not carry a gun, Frank. When I got thrown into this war I had a clear understanding with the Pentagon: no guns....
Coffey vs. Dickey in the 2nd? Slice me off a piece of THAT
Told you so.
The Green Mouse reports that Dan Coffey—for decades a Democrat, then an independent, and now a Republican (somewhere a Falangist has lost...
Recipes for Chaos
Highlands crowds jubilant as “Brother Joe’s Travelling Salvation Show” heads south
On Sunday, Pints&union took to the airwaves for a final round of self-congratulation before decamping for Louisville.
From beginning to end, the symmetry between Joe's...
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From 2009: “Senior editor graces inner pages of Today’s Woman magazine, world gasps”
Egads.
I'd completely forgotten about this photo op and interview, fortunately recorded at NA Confidential (August 5, 2009). Noting that for the moment I cannot...
1970s-era albums for December, 2025
Updated December 10, 2025
Nostalgia regularly afflicts me, and as a result, I endeavor to keep it at arm’s length.
But 2025 has been such a...
John Lennon: Life (and death) is what happens to you while you’re busy making...
(An essay originally published at NA Confidential in 2005, and often repeated. It has been lightly edited.)
On the morning of December 9, 1980, I...
