Wednesday, December 02, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: PourGate (the Great Beer Pour War of 2013): "Kneel and Kiss My Ring, You Degraded Alcoholic."

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Last evening (1 December 2020) two of three Floyd County Commissioners declined to certify another four-year term for Dr. Thomas Harris as...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: A few thanks to give as we eagerly await Trump's forthcoming eviction.

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Consider it a quasi-retired blogger’s fallback credo in times of holiday-inspired gluttony. "Cutting and pasting leaves more time f...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Doc Harris and the Commissioners at the No Clue Corral.

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Ah, the foolish delusions of youth. Displaying the guileless eagerness of a fresh military recruit going into battle for the very first time...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon (The Big Bang Remix).

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Pedestrians being hit by cars is a car problem. Car congestion is a car problem. Noise and air pollution from car exhaust is a car problem. ...
Saturday, November 07, 2020

On (or off) the Avenues, there's got to be a morning after.

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What I do want to nudge you to consider is this: everything you are passionate about at the national level has a local analog that needs you...
Sunday, November 01, 2020

Marc Murphy and Dan Canon on Tuesday's election.

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Marc Murphy is an attorney, freelance cartoonist and the editorial cartoonist for the Louisville Courier Journal . His comment appeared at...
Friday, October 30, 2020

Hanson's Folly, updated: There's still no diversity among regular News and Tribune opinion columnists.

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I took a gander in February, checked again in June, and updated again circa late August (and posted at Twitter). Hanson's Folly: There r...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Eliminate jaywalking laws: "The core problem lies with street design, not human behavior."

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Yes, we've been here before.      Walking is not a crime: Dunman and others on the scourges of jaywalking in auto-erotic America. Like t...
Monday, October 26, 2020

An absolute fascination with "The 15 Tallest Skyscrapers of Yugoslavia."

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If Donald Niebyl created a calendar with these images I'd snatch one up.  My only visit to Yugoslavia when constituted as such came in 1...
Saturday, October 24, 2020

Revisiting Neil Postman's bet on Huxley over Orwell.

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My old friend John Campbell posted on Facebook: "Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell." Before repeating John's quoted p...
Friday, October 23, 2020

"Hotels of Pyongyang," not Summit Springs.

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  The book is Hotels of Pyongyang , by James Scullin and Nicole Reed. I may need to get this one for Christmas.     The curious design feat...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: Welcome to 12 days of a beer world that utterly baffles me.

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Last week a friend gave me a bottle of Vienna-style lager from KC Bier Co, a brewery in Kansas City . It's a classic European style, un...