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           This morning, my indispensable – for many more reasons than one – news feed, The Writer’s Almanac, reported, ‘On this day in 1892, John Muir founded the Sierra…

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          I can’t recall from my wasted youth whether it was the immortal Stan Freberg or the almost equally immortal Firesign Theatre that did a play by play of the…

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             Until the show ended abruptly in early 2010, I listened regularly to Barnes Newberry’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ on WUMB in Boston.  I have mourned its loss.             But today…

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          Note:   On May 10, at the CERES Conference in Oakland, California, I received the Joan Bavaria Award for the ‘long-term impact’ of my old company, KLD Research & Analytics, …