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NHL/NBA Finals Open Thread

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I have little to add to Andrew Berkshire's comprehensive preview. The Blues are good, and the Bruins are on a bit of a goaltending/special teams heater that may cool off (although neither is a complete fluke or anything either.) But I think Boston is better and...
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The Last Slave Ship

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The last ship participating in the trans-Atlantic slave trade to enter American waters has been found and the whole thing is highly fascinating. Last week, all such doubts evaporated. A team of researchers confirmed that a submerged wooden wreck lodged in the mud a few miles...
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The 2020 election

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As on this Memorial Day we contemplate the thought that millions of soldiers and their loved ones suffered the horrors of war to protect the freedom of their fellow citizens to put someone like Donald Trump in office, let's consider the odds that he'll be re-elected....
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Music Notes

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Memorial Day weekend is a good time for some music notes. I had the honor of seeing the amazing pianist Matthew Shipp perform on Friday, at Firehouse 12 in New Haven. I had seen him before, a solo show in Albuquerque in 2006 (I think). Probably...
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