Monday, July 27, 2026

Quote of the Day (Jimmy Breslin, on the Original Mets as Lovable Losers)

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“You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life. This is a team for the cab driver who gets held up and the guy who l...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Photo of the Day: Fireworks Display, PNC Park, Pittsburgh PA

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I took the image accompanying this post a little over two weeks ago, while visiting a close relative in Pittsburgh. Several times before, I ...

Spiritual Quote of the Day (Dr. Michael Chan, on Moses, Truth, and National Memory)

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“The future of a people depends on the truthfulness of their memory. A forgetful nation is a fragile nation. Moses urged the people to remem...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

Theater Review: ‘Mean Girls’ (The Musical), From the Pittsburgh CLO

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It’s hard to believe that the film comedy Mean Girls is two decades old now. Somehow, it had escaped my attention that screenwriter Tina Fe...

Quote of the Day (Elliot Ackerman, on ‘The Stories We Tell About War’)

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“The stories we tell about war are really important to the decisions we make around war.”—American Marine veteran-turned-novelist Elliot Ack...
Friday, July 24, 2026

Photo of the Day: Two Kinds of Toxic Environment

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I took the image accompanying this post a week ago while I was still on vacation at the Chautauqua Institution , a lovely enclosed upstate N...

TV Quote of the Day (Reiner and Brooks, With the 2,000-Year-Old Man on Ancient Matrimony)

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Carl Reiner : “We know that many, many hundreds of years ago, most men had more than one wife.” The 2,000-Year-Old Man [ played by Mel Br...