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More than 30 years ago now, I was selected as my high school’s intern for our local Congressman. I spent a week working from the Capitol Hill office of Representative Bruce Morrison, a Democrat who represented the third district of Connecticut. Though he was running for Governor of Connecticut that year, he still kept a… Read more »

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I count myself among the many fortunate souls that quit drinking before the use of camera phones became ubiquitous. I know of at least one video taken of me passed out drunk in a friend’s kitchen that existed on a friend’s mobile phone. If there are others I don’t know about them but suffice to… Read more »

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Though I have been subjected to it for many years, it’s only been in the past year that the language known as “corporate speak” has been creeping into my vocabulary. I must make it stop. I switched jobs a little over a year ago and moved from the thankless ranks of financial journalism to the… Read more »

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(written while watching the MSNBC Reagan Library Republican presidential candidate debate) An Ode to Underwear: Living Underwear. Sustainable Underwear. Can you live without Underwear? Dive under some Underwear. Down under Underwear. Organic Underwear. Rick Perry Underwear. Underwear on fire. Successful Underwear. Living the dream Underwear. I love underwear. Some people don’t have Underwear. Support Underwear… Read more »