Category Archives: How Monty Python Ruined My Life

The 1960′s Mad Men and the Rat Pack.

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

I was a kid in the 1960′s, too young to live the lifestyle of Mad Men and the Rat Pack, but old enough to know it was there. There was the lifestyle, when drinking and smoking were cool! I have … Continue reading →

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A Warped Look at Surgeons.

Posted on May 12, 2013 by

Before I begin, this is no way picking on surgeons.  Most do great work.  At coffee earlier, in the complex, we were talking about surgeons, and bedside manner. Tonight, I ended up having a funny dream that is a warped … Continue reading →

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Irish with Sticks.

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

Irish with sticks?  What kind of talk is that?  (I got the second sentence from the Monty Python skit, where John Cleese plays the dead parrot owner and Michael Palin, the pet store owner.  ”He’s pining for the fjords.”  ”Pining … Continue reading →

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Why Are Jews the “Chosen People?”

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

Why are Jews the Chosen People?  Not what your thinking.  Always a small group with powerful enemies in a tough region, it is that we chose to obey the Torah.  All other nations in the area had the same idea … Continue reading →

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Why Being Jewish Can Be Like a Job Interview.

Posted on March 20, 2013 by

OK, why is being Jewish like going on a job interview?  I thought of this after I read Ruth Wisse‘s Jews and Power.  Look at how many nations during the Disaspora Jews were driven in and out of.  Think  back … Continue reading →

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Hamiltonian vs. Jeffersonian.

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

Time for a very brief American History lesson that will also benefit my non United States friends. You keep hearing about tea parties and Democratic liberals, big cities vs. countryside.  I am simplifying this greatly, but no matter what our … Continue reading →

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Silent Cal

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

Silent Cal, American President Calvin Coolidge.  A quiet, in some ways stereotypical New Englander. He isn’t a President you think of often.  I was watching a History Channel series on the Presidents, that’s how this first came up. I read … Continue reading →

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Let’s Play Soccer, Brazil vs. Peru.

Posted on January 20, 2013 by

Michael Palin, formerly of Monty Python just finished a series about Brazil.  Sabine Hyland, Professor Extraordinaire studies the Inca Civilization.  So here is another silly look from me, Brazil vs. Peru, playing soccer against each other. Brazil is flat and … Continue reading →

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Tucson Weather.

Posted on January 20, 2013 by

Today was beautiful to walk around in Tucson, The Old Pueblo.  Last Monday and Tuesday it dropped to the teens.  I walked from Broadway and Alvernon to Alvernon and 22nd Street to keep warm. When I got on my number … Continue reading →

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Home Telephone Use.

Posted on January 13, 2013 by

Before he died, my father got a great laugh, when I told him I didn’t like being on the phone much at home.  I am on the phone all day at work, plus with social media at home, who needs … Continue reading →

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