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Ken Ilgunas
- Dec 25, 2017
Best Books I read in 2017
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) I’d already read P&P, and I was already thinking that I was done with old English lit., so I...
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Ken Ilgunas
- Dec 23, 2017
“The Last Jedi” Review
There will be spoilers. 1. It was a complete waste a time with hardly a redeeming quality. 2. There was no chemistry between any of the...
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Ken Ilgunas
- Dec 18, 2017
On mean signs and our lousy democracy
[I wrote this essay a few years ago when I was living in North Carolina. It was for my photo blog, notrespassingsigns.blogspot.com. I...
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Ken Ilgunas
- Dec 11, 2017
The Big Forces Theory
A little more than a week ago, Trump retweeted anti-Muslim videos, called a political opponent “Pocahontas” at a ceremony honoring Native...
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Ken Ilgunas
- Nov 21, 2017
The Scottish Desert
There is great beauty in the wild, solitary Highlands, but it can be a haunting sort of beauty. You could walk for miles and never see...
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Ken Ilgunas
- Nov 10, 2017
The Value of the National Petroleum Reserve
Christopher Solomon has a lovely piece in NYT‘s Sunday Review. I have lived near the National Petroleum Reserve (a cold and undignified...
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Ken Ilgunas
- Oct 30, 2017