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Jeff Minick

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  • 7 Simple Ways to Make the World a Better Place in a Day

    7 Simple Ways to Make the World a Better Place in a Day0

    Old age has made me more aware that many national and international events play out more as farce than tragedy, with the comedy heavily dependent on irony for its laughs. The same folks who want to control the climate zip about the world in private jets. The elected representatives invested with “the power of the

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  • Beware the Bots of Baal

    Beware the Bots of Baal0

    Every day a new poem from the Society of Classical Poets arrives in my inbox. Published recently were two poems, “Beelzebots” and “Blabberbots,” by Susan Jarvis Bryant. First up is “Blabberbots”: The day he called that twaddle-bot a she Instead of just a simple, soulless it, Is when my smitten eyes began to see This chatter-slut was stirring

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  • Reflections on Punctuation … And Death

    Reflections on Punctuation … And Death0

    Death and punctuation share a common function. Both are endings, one marking a completed sentence, the other a completed life. Make metaphors of some punctuation marks, and they can represent certain philosophies regarding the afterlife. A period, for example, might indicate the demise of an atheist, that is, life is over and done with. The

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  • 4 Tips for Families From Shackleton’s Voyage

    4 Tips for Families From Shackleton’s Voyage0

    One of my sons gave me some belated Christmas gifts just as cold and snow clamped down on my little town. Among these was a copy of Alfred Lansing’s “Endurance,” a narrative account of explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 27 who fought for nearly two years to survive the gales, sub-zero temperatures, and

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