Gimme Shelter

As those of you who live stateside are probably aware, there were a whole heckuva lot of tornadoes in the South and Midwest last night. Nineteen of those were in my native Missouri, where the death toll stands at 12 as of this writing.* For 7 to 10 days prior, there were increasingly urgent warnings

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Papa Don’t Preach

I spent more than seven hours working on “Same Trailer, Different Park” today and it still isn’t finished. That’s less a testament to its quality, as you’ll ultimately see for yourselves, than further evidence my brain moves more slowly than a Jacques Rivette film. But maybe it’s a useful reminder — for me more than

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Hear Me Out

“She’s tough, very tough,” was how the lawyer described the administrative law judge who would hear our SSA appeal. We couldn’t have drawn anyone tougher, she opined, or harder to read. Most of what she conveyed about her — a reputation for being “testy” with shifty claimants, a dislike of shirts bearing smart-ass or political

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