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Thoughts on politics (neither left nor right but upward), film, food, books, homosexuality, religion, technology, theatre, travel, adventures, genealogy, love, virtue, and whatnot.

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Sweden-Norway Itinerary (Apr-May 2025)

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When we learned that some friends were planning a grand milestone birthday gala at the Royal Stockholm Opera House, we knew that could n...

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Ending Weaponization of the Dept of Justice?

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One of President Trump’s promises was to “end the weaponization” of the Department of Justice. Here’s how that’s going so far. The US Attorn...

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Grave Injustice Only Beginning

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Here’s what Donald Trump told Time magazine in an interview just last month: TIME: Have you decided yet whether you're going to pardo...

Sunday, January 19, 2025

What I Fear From the Next Four Years

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As I look forward to the next four years with dread, I thought it would be useful to try to assess what I fear might actually happen. Top...

Sunday, January 05, 2025

Remembering Beryl

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When I was growing up in the 1960s in the northern San Fernando Valley, we lived on a newly developed suburban neighborhood street filled wi...

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Japan Itinerary (Oct 2024)

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When my 91-year old father was asked if he still had anything on his "bucket list", and he said he wanted to take his boys to ...

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Tom Chatt: Echo Park, Los Angeles, California; husband, godfather, son, brother, friend, homosexual, software technologist, Echo Park (Los Angeles) resident, proud American citizen, semi-Jewish-identified non-believer regularly attending an Adventist church, performing arts devotee, world traveler, fine diner, amateur cook, snowboarder, genealogist, geocacher, pragmatist both liberal and conservative.

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