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The Firing Zone (opens the original)
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Fire him now! Off with his head! Send a U-Haul to his house! Buy him out!It is not yet October, but we are already at the firing stage of the college football season. Every team with two losses has fans calling for ousters of head coaches.Yesterday, Sports Illustrated posted a story titled “Are We Witnessing the End of the Shane Beamer Era at South Caro
Must See TV (opens the original)
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We have traded Joan Collins for Lane Kiffin.Americans have never had more bespoke television viewing options but on Saturday night we proved again that technology cannot overcome human nature. We love soap operas and we still need villains.Collins was a TV melodrama bombshell in the 1980s and Kiffin just coaches ball but they both got the same role in the national conversation.Saturday night’s football game in Oxford, Mississippi had all the ingredients of a tele-novella and the ratings for Ole
The A.I. Realignment (opens the original)
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American politics changes like tectonic plates, repositioning slowly without notice, until an earthquake calls attention to drastically changed positions for its two parties.The stock market crash in 1929 was one such earthquake, revealing a realignment that gave us a century of Democrats in the mold of Franklin Delano Roosevelt juxtaposed against a century of Republicans in the mold of Barry Goldwater.Donald Trump’s unsanctioned romp through the 2016 election, punching out Jeb Bush and the trad
The Association (opens the original)
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In the fall, the waters of the Chesapeake Bay’s tributaries ease up to new heights; King Tides, they call them. They lap up onto the top of docks and kiss the propellers of lifted boats on the creek beneath my cabin. Dramatic, they remind us that all the structures we build on the water exist conditionally.Just as glassy as the less-threatening flows earlier in summer, the King Tides are benign. With less visual gap between pier and pool, these bigger moon pulls maximize the beauty of the entire
Drink the Wine (opens the original)
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We bought our house in the same year I discovered Piemonte, and that was fortuitous. The house came with a walk-in wine cellar and the family-owned vineyards strewn across the rolling Italian hills from LaMorra to Serralunga D’Alba provided a learnable collection of producers to fill it up. It is a good thing I have enjoyed the chore of curating this wine because I will not get to enjoy drinking it.This afternoon, maybe even as you read this, I will be in a long surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital
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