Author: Fred Gardner

Jason and the Jays

When Rosie lived on a farm in Oregon And Jason was 8, Evan was 14, and Kate was 6 There was an old, unloaded .22 rifle in the front closet That somebody might have fired at a rabid skunk crawling out from under a barn long ago....

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Balls

For years the marketing experts of Major League Baseball (MLB, the owners’ consortium) have...

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‘Prolonged Grief’ is now an Illness

The American Psychiatric Association has added “Prolonged Grief Disorder” to its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder —a list of conditions for which insurance companies reimburse doctors.  To break...

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Sorkin’s Boffo Misdirection Play

By Fred Gardner December 26, 2014  Two big stories had just broken: “Senate Exposes CIA Torture” and “Sony Chiefs’ Racist Emails Revealed.” Immediately —and in concert— the National Security Apparatus denied the torture charge...

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