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Remembering Easter, 1916 [by Terence Winch]
On Easter Monday of 1916, 150 or so Irish rebels took armed action against their British rulers, seizing the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin. After a week of fighting, they lost to the…
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Hemingway Reassures Fitzgerald on His Penis Size [by Jim Cummins]
Jim Cummins initially filed this report in 2009. It has become a classic. — DL <<<Everybody my age knows about Hemingway's story about measuring F. Scott Fitzgerald's penis in A Moveable Feast, but maybe…
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Trochaic Theory Favors Sanders; Clinton Gets an Asterisk; Ted Cruz Doth Lose; etc. [by David Lehman]
Trochaic theory, the political forecasting system based on poetic metrics, which correctly predicted Obama's presidential victories in 2008 and 2012, has shortened the odds on Bernie Sanders — if, and it's a big if,…
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Summer Camp Quiz [by David Lehman]
1) Bug juice is a) an experiment conducted by the nature counselorb) insect repellent for canoe tripsc) the fruit drink that is served at mealsd) none of the above 2) The song beginning "Great…
