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How did this happen? Who on earth could have seen this coming?: It turns out a crowded museum, like a crowded subway, is no excuse for an improper touch. This lesson has been learned the hard way by some visitors to “The Artist is Present,” the Marina Abramovic retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art,…

Somebody secretly records a drunken Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys owner, talking trash about Bill Parcells and others in a bar, and WFAA, the ABC affiliate in Dallas, runs it as a story. This royally cheesed off WFAA’s veteran sports anchor Dale Hansen, who thought it a serious breach of journalistic ethics. Hansen went on…

I had occasion late last week to visit an area public school. There are 10 or so celebratory banners lining the hall, proclaiming, “We made adequate yearly progress in 2009!” Adequacy! It’s so … whelming. To be charitable, perhaps this school had to overcome lots of daunting obstacles on the road to adequacy, but it…

If you read my post titled “The impermanence of things,” about visiting my elderly aunts’ cabin as a ruin, please go take a second look at it. My cousin Kevin e-mailed an image of the old cabin when my (our) aunts were still living in it, as well as a snapshot of Aunt Lois doing…
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