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  • Peeps People in Pennsylvania

    Peeps People in Pennsylvania

    As many long-time readers know, my Carpatho–Rusyn origins means my family observes Orthodox Easter, which usually does not coincide with what I call Catholic Easter—because the other part of my background is Irish Catholic, so growing up there were two Easters. Now we just observe the one and so later today I am headed back…

  • Iran, Not Persia

    Iran, Not Persia

    So if you’ve a date in Tehran, she’ll be waiting, in, well, Tehran. Happy Friday, all. On Monday I critiqued a graphic from Bloomberg about airstrikes in the Middle East. As we head into the weekend, I opted to pull one of my (many) atlases off the bookshelf, because I just wanted to see how…