THE GOLDMAN STATE

THE GOLDMAN STATE

Author: Ed Goldman

A Dude at Oxford

It’s being reported that England’s University of Oxford, whose first classes date all the way back to 1096, may establish a satellite campus in Northern California’s Marin County, whose first Jacuzzis® date all the way back to 1968.

Oxford is famous for educating thousands of British prime ministers, many of whom …

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Axe Me No Questions

To commemorate the expected spring opening of an axe-throwing bar in the vibrant and, one’s tempted to add, cutting-edge midtown area of California’s capital, we set the mood with a legendary, anonymous poem:

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Flossing for Dental and Mental Health

I floss every morning while doing crossword puzzles.

It’s a juggling act, to be sure, and I never walk away without the newspaper getting soaked with spittle. But I’m trying to make 2020 my Year of Well Being—as opposed to 2019, which can be generously remembered as my Year of, Well, Being.

Permit me to explain my daily …

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New Musical Genres

You and I have something in common with most TV weather-casters, even if some of the latter are certified meteorologists: None of us really knows what the weather will be tomorrow.

We (and they) can hazard guesses, in their cases far more educated than mine—though for…

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