Michael Campbell

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A Step Up for Your Swim Ladder

Add comfortable treads to protect your feet I sail an older Macgregor 26 Classic. I love it in every way. Every way but one: it came with a swim ladder made of 1" chrome tubing that just kills my feet. Adding insult to injury, the ladder doesn't reach deep enough into...

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The Liberty of Responsibility

More restrictions, more masking requirements. President Biden stepped up yesterday, asking large businesses to require either vaccinations or regular testing. "Overreach!" my governor, Pete Ricketts, declared. "This plan isn't about public health — it's about taking...

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Flushed

The internet is helpful, mostly. The telephone: now there’s a handy device. But every single day I pause to give thanks to my favorite invention of all: my toilet. Every vulnerable, humbling, shameful experience gets washed away discreetly, at the press of a silver...

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Where Civility Ends

Did Facebook and Twitter break the world? We used to be nice to each other (at least face to face) and we managed to disagree without throwing punches (mostly). Have we lost civility forever? It’s those darned crazy kids these days, and their shoot-em-up video games,...

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Feeling Punchy

On St. Patrick's Day in my elementary school you were supposed to wear something green. If you didn't, everyone had the right to pinch you. So far as I can remember, this was the only opportunity to pinch another boy and not get pounded. But there was a caveat: if it...

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