Billy Paultz Reconsidered

Just happened upon this while aimlessly surfing, which reminded me of college, in Western Pennsylvania, a stronghold of the absurd and offensive practice of calling soda “pop.”
First, problems with the data the map represents:
1. It’s based on 120,000-some responses in a nation of 300-plus million.
2. It’s by county but not population; the “pro-soda” (read: sane) […]

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This column ran in the Sunday News Living Section March 30. It is posted here in honor of my kid’s high-school graduation.
I’d like you to meet my son.
That’s him over there, all feet and legs and contrarian hair, with the Jimi Hendrix T-shirt and the floor-sweeping pants.
Something of a free spirit, this […]

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This is an excellent piece about terrorism paranoia, but I probably wouldn’t be linking to it if it wasn’t written by the “Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies,” at Ohio State.

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