"Who needs a 50,000-seat bar and grill used only on Sundays?"
- Ed Raymond, The Gadfly, "What Will Cure Idiocraphobia?", Reader Weekly, 2011-08-25, originally published in High Plains Reader as "Tar and Feathers".
He made an earlier reference in his article that "alcohol has become a major problem at practically every stadium in the U.S."
If you don't have regular access to the Reader Weekly (Duluth MN), you can find Ed Raymond's column online on the High Plains Reader.
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Serendipity and Politics
Bob Goldish recently wrote a letter to the editor of the Reader Weekly praising a column by Ed Raymond.
I want to tell Bob that he can find Ed Raymond's email address and columns at the High Plains Reader. I went to the High Plains Reader's website to check that Raymond's email address was indeed there.
While I was scanning the list of opinion columns I saw "Don't Cry for me, Richie Daley" by Charlie Barber. Barber proposed that Obama's trip to the Olympic Committee was paying a political debt to Chicago politicians for their support, something I had suspected.
Maybe the loss of the games is a loss for those who would make lots of money building new things, but it is a big gain for the average Chicagoan and for Obama. The average Chicagoan already has plenty of sports venues and other entertainments. He or she doesn't need the aggravation and inflation that Olympic crowds would bring. Obama now has paid his debt to Chicago politicians and owes them nothing.
I want to tell Bob that he can find Ed Raymond's email address and columns at the High Plains Reader. I went to the High Plains Reader's website to check that Raymond's email address was indeed there.
While I was scanning the list of opinion columns I saw "Don't Cry for me, Richie Daley" by Charlie Barber. Barber proposed that Obama's trip to the Olympic Committee was paying a political debt to Chicago politicians for their support, something I had suspected.
Maybe the loss of the games is a loss for those who would make lots of money building new things, but it is a big gain for the average Chicagoan and for Obama. The average Chicagoan already has plenty of sports venues and other entertainments. He or she doesn't need the aggravation and inflation that Olympic crowds would bring. Obama now has paid his debt to Chicago politicians and owes them nothing.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The importance of creativity in education
When I started working for Univac in the 1960s, I met a few musicians who had become computer programmers. I think I thought of it as the ability to manipulate symbols.
Decades later, I codified it as mathematics is the science of relationships and music is the art of relationships.
I was delighted to read the following in Ed Raymond's column in the Reader Weekly last week:
"Some day we will even find out why musicians make the best mathematicians."
He was decrying how arts and music have been cut from too many schools because of budget cuts. If you missed his column in the Reader Weekly, you can find it online in the High Plains Reader, "Cherry Wood and the Golden Gopher Jockstrap".
Decades later, I codified it as mathematics is the science of relationships and music is the art of relationships.
I was delighted to read the following in Ed Raymond's column in the Reader Weekly last week:
"Some day we will even find out why musicians make the best mathematicians."
He was decrying how arts and music have been cut from too many schools because of budget cuts. If you missed his column in the Reader Weekly, you can find it online in the High Plains Reader, "Cherry Wood and the Golden Gopher Jockstrap".
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