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Jeff Minick

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  • Waking Up in Dunderland

    Waking Up in Dunderland0

    Recently I stumbled across Alberto Manguel’s A Reader on Reading in my public library and brought the book home. As I skimmed the pages, I became aware that Manguel had used quotations from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass to introduce each of his chapters.            Over the last

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  • Down the Tubes: Our Bungled Healthcare System

    Down the Tubes: Our Bungled Healthcare System0

    For a good while now, a California nurse, whom I’ll call “Sally,” has sent me occasional emails and texts regarding the abysmal state of our healthcare system, particularly in hospitals such as the one where she works. In a recent text, she told me that her hospital is having to ration certain medications because of

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  • Boats Against the Current: Taking Hopeless Times and Making Them Otherwise

    Boats Against the Current: Taking Hopeless Times and Making Them Otherwise0

    “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his 1936 essay, “The Crack-Up.”            Given that test, I’m afraid I would flunk hands-down. Here are some contradictory

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  • A Change in Sex Ed? Count Me In

    A Change in Sex Ed? Count Me In1

    As some readers may know, I’m an old guy, born during the middle of the Korean War. Which makes me a time machine.            Listen to me, and I can whisk you back to the late 1960s, when in high school we took biology and health classes. In biology we probably

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