Monthly Archives: August 2005

Something Must Have Happened

8/25/2005 – 8:19 am

In Vermont, you can bring your beer and soda cans and bottles back to the store and get a nickel for each. The deposit law doesn’t cover juice, wine or bottled water, only carbonated beverages. Seems odd, but there it is.
Adrienne and I don’t drink many carbonated beverages, so when we have two or [...]

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On Wedgies

8/18/2005 – 9:31 am

Summer is in full throat. Cicadas drone through the day, crickets are loud every night. Pairs and threes of teenagers walk through the evening neighborhoods, their voices drifting through the window screens.
At summer camp, wedgies must be getting out of hand.
Experienced camp administrators know wedgies play a regulatory role in the living organism [...]

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The Crossroads Fish

8/11/2005 – 9:29 am

Menhaden are small, bony, oily fish, members of the herring family. Most people would go out of their way to avoid eating them. (Some old Germans, like my dad, eat them pickled on New Year’s Eve. Supposed to bring good luck.)
The rest of us don’t eat menhaden, except when we do. [...]

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The Turning Point

8/4/2005 – 9:08 am

According to his obituary in the New York Times, King Fahd bin Abdel-Aziz of Saudi Arabia urged Saddam Hussein to retreat from Kuwait in the days following Iraq’s 1990 invasion. The Times reports: “Then Dick Cheney, the defense secretary at the time, visited the king to make the case that Saudi Arabia stood a [...]

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