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Bob Garfield
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Washington
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entertainment, cultureArts, Asian American history Asian American pop culture, Filipino American history
Things that bore me.
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By Bob Garfield| Substack@ It was 52 years ago when I sat with my mother and brothers on the vinyl-covered visitors’ room loveseats at Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia. My father, at the age of 51, was awaiting surgery after a heart attack. The plan was to bypass several clogged arteries. Even now, a half-century later, no such surgery is exactly routine, but in 1972 it was extremely high-risk, partly because the imaging of the era was quite primitive. The doctors didn’t know exactly what they would find
By Bob Garfield| Substack@ My God, what a dick. By now you are all too well aware that billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, after days of hiding behind the official subterfuge of institutional decision-making below him, has copped to prohibiting a presidential endorsement in his pages. As his publisher had before him, he tried to rationalize the decision as a principled one with the best interests of journalism and American democracy as the beneficiaries
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Washington, D.C., United States