Monday, March 28, 2011
THE TRIANGLE FIRE: A Tragic Centennial
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THIS DOOR TO REMAIN UNLOCKED DURING BUSINESS HOURS. Ever notice this puzzling placard above the door as you’re leaving a commercial buildin...
Monday, March 21, 2011
SOME GRAVE OBSERVATIONS
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Mausoleum of Big four railroad magnate Charles Crocker, Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California (c 1888) Suppose I told you about a...
Monday, March 14, 2011
BIG-BOX BUNGLING
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A while back, I stopped off at my local “big-box” home-improvement emporium to buy a coupling, a common electrical fitting that costs less t...
Monday, March 7, 2011
THE HOWARD ROARKE SYNDROME
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Ayn Rand’s famed novel “The Fountainhead” is the amusingly overwrought tale of an egocentric architect named Howard Roarke. On finding tha...
Monday, February 28, 2011
NO O-FENCE...
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Some folks just aren’t happy with their fronts yards until they’ve erected a miniature stockade around them. I couldn’t count how many 3-fo...
Monday, February 14, 2011
JUST WHAT DO YOU DO?
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Turn on the television any evening, and chances are you’ll come across some TV lawyers engaged in brilliant verbal sparring in court or in s...
Monday, February 7, 2011
HOME IS WHERE MY CARS LIVE
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America is a car-centered culture, and its homes reflect that fact. Since World War II, garage doors have been a dominant feature of suburb...
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