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The many ways this day is ‘special’

If this is Sunday, April 23, 2023, then it must be National Table Top Tennis Day ... and National Lost Dog Awareness Day ... and National Picnic Day ... and National Lovers’ Day ... and National German Beer Day ... and National Cherry Cheesecake Day ... and World Book Night ... and St. ...

Baseball’s pitch clocks

There are but a few things that gain unanimous approval in America these days.Several of those brand-new Major League Baseball changes seem to be very close to getting across-the-board raves.(When I write “across-the-board raves,” I’m saying I haven’t seen anybody claim they honestly ...

The problem of men in black robes

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to the prescription drug mifepristone in 2000. Last week, 23 years and five presidential administrators later, a federal judge in Texas placed a preliminary hold on the use of mifepristone, one drug in a two-drug combination used to ...

What goes around…

Last week, the lead-up to Donald TrumpĢƵ New York arraignment may have caused a record for breathless speculation.A squadron of reporters followed TrumpĢƵ motorcade out of Mar-a-Lago as it wound its way to Palm Beach International Airport.Reporters and anchors around the planet engaged in ...

In defense of a rules-based world

Robert KaganĢƵ “lesson for all time” is that peace – as in the absence of war among nations – is most often squandered when threats to the peace “are not obvious and the need to do something is not obvious.”This, it seems obvious to say, makes keeping the peace extremely ...

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

More children were murdered in their school last week.Covenant School, Nashville, Tennessee – 6 dead, 1 injured.That was followed by the usual flood of tearful “thoughts and prayers;” feverish speculation about who the culprit might be; more tragic pictures of schoolchildren getting ...