Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris

It’s always hit or miss with David Sedaris.  His most brilliant work often involves his family and always involves some personal flaw.  His worst work, which can be offensive, belligerent, and nausea inducing, usually involves his views on politics.   I don’t mind David Sedaris having political views or hating conservative-I just don’t want to find these tirades grouped together with his more traditional humor and nostalgia pieces.  Like Squirrel Seeks Chipmonk,  I’d like it better if he wrote this stuff under another name and collected them in separate books, perhaps only available in Iran or North Korea and then…

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Downton Abbey comes to PBS

Downton Abbey is one of those rare shows that was able to surprise me.  Not once, not twice, but almost constantly.  The writer did a brilliant job of directing my expectations in one direction and then doubling back and surprising me. The story is a familiar one, another tale of that fantasy world that existed in the British Empire for about thirty or forty years where a rich family owned an Estate and a Staff of fifty were needed to run the House of that Estate. Downton Abbey is the story of The Lord of The Manner, his rich America…

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