Recent content by Julep

If you like Italian food and/or Paul Revere, check out Boston’s North End. I enjoy exploring the Greenway, which is the park made where I93 once ran. Lots of green space/gardens and local artists and craftspeople selling their works, food trucks, etc. It’s also easy to get from Boston to...

If you hate going to the gym but like taking walks, you should walk. Walking will not replace going to the gym. The gym has a bunch of specialized equipment that makes it easier to train physically. However, any activity that you enjoy doing is a fine replacement for not going to the gym at...

Scatting by people who can’t jazz. I always thought the Acts story was intended as a spread the gospel miracle. Go tell the good news to people whose language you can’t speak; gawd will make the right words come out of your mouth. Given the fate of many early missionaries, maybe gawd was...

William McNeill, The Rise of the West[./I] Abraham Maslow, Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences. Blaise Pascal, [I]Pensees.

It's an interesting and flawed performance. My parents had this record, and even now I can summon up on my internal play-back the robo version of Brandenburg 5. Learning that Williams could only do one voice at a time helps me to better understand some of the choices made. Still, in my...

Collins is one of only a couple of GOP senators who supports abortion rights and says she doesn't want Roe v. Wade overturned. Most other GOP senators want to get rid of Roe v. Wade, so in a sense their overlooking Kavanaugh's inconsistencies, evasions, and lies is less of a betrayal. They...

She cried a little, but talked through it and didn't resort to theatrics.

A-bomb dropped, maybe. A third named woman, Julie Swetnick, has produced a statement that she observed Kavanaugh getting drunk and aggressive with females at around 10 house parties during their high school years.

First real crack, I think, in the GOP facade: Sen. Murkowski is stating that she wants Kavanaugh's second accuser also to testify. As well, she seems to favor some kind of FBI investigation of the allegations. I'm wondering if Bill Cosby's conviction has something to do with it. Not his...

I just finished that book a couple of days ago. It was heartening in some ways to see how Derek was willing to take in new information, but frustrating that even for a very bright guy, changing his mind took years. I don't know what the "critical point" is, but I do think that white...