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REWIND: “This week in solipsistic beer narcissism” (2014)
Lightly edited to remove a couple of obscure topical references.
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Louisville Beer, Now and Then
“Anyone who has groped among the dark beer dungeons which lie for a number...
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NAHA? Four years later, the questions remain unasked and unanswered
At the Jeffersonville News and Tribune, there is an article: "New Albany Housing Authority moving forward with $27 million in renovations," by Daniel Suddeath.
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On the late James Levine
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“Trieste,” a novel by Daša Drndić
It can be daunting, perhaps even crippling, to consider the immensity of what remains unknown about the wider world. What we as individuals know...
UNESCO is right; of course Belgium’s beer culture is a treasure of humanity
And who am I to argue with UNESCO? Here’s the link from National Public Radio.
Citing Belgian beer's integral role in social and culinary life,...
Diary
Diary for 27 July 2021: I really hate having to drive a car to...
The point of these "diary" entries is to write as the mood strikes me, in the moment.
The past few weeks I've made many, perhaps...
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...
Diary for 15 July 2021: Once there was a bridge
Roger, describe your relationship with City Hall in one photo or less. pic.twitter.com/7OZNAjBVAw
— Roger A. Baylor (@newalbanian) March 11, 2021
Twitter games amuse me at...
Diary for 1 June 2021: Constructive criticism is seldom tolerated at the grassroots
If there is any one surefire takeaway that springs to mind from my lengthy period of civic engagement — the grassroots era, those "localism"...
Diary for 21 July 2021: The artist’s name comes first
Can you name the Pope who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel?
Didn't think so. I had to look it up: Julius II.
While I'm...
Recipes for Chaos
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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