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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Wait - that psychiatrist is the same guy he healed with his spiritual powers! (It’s like a parable or something: "Heal the sick and they shall heal thee in return.")

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Sorry, I'm dying to know what just happened that you won't comment on.

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I assumed it was just a day-late April Fool's joke, from one of our wittiest humorists.

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Ms. Up-to-the-Minute, Ms. AuCourant, Ms.… NOW!

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Do they suggest alternatives/strategies in a different essay? I'd be interested to see what they propose.

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My letter in today's Sunday Record.

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

- The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway - Les Liaisons Dangereuses, by LaClos - Letters from the Earth, by Mark Twain (not fiction, but...) Enough. Hope you see this, and enjoy these.

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Okay, the computer decided to cooperate, so here are a few more: - The Book of Laughter & Forgetting, by Milan Kundera - Waiting for the Barbarians, by J.M. Coetzee - A Death in the Family, by James Agee - Peter Pan (the novel, not the play), by J.M. Barrie [to be cont'd]

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

[continued] - The Mezzanine, by Nicholson Baker - Rock Springs (short stories by Richard Ford) - Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson [I'd list some more, but my computer is giving me a hard time right now.] Happy reading!

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Well, you've clearly read the Thick Giant Classics, and everyone else has named a bunch of other lengthy greats, so I'll throw out a few shorter ones that I've loved: - The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy - True Grit, by Charles Portis (don't judge by the movies!) [continued on next post]

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Quick explainer: Think Homer Simpson: "Mm, chocolate. Doh!" Now think Trump: "Mm, oil. Doh!"

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In the Pixar movie, those long green snippers will chomp, chomp, chomp the new letters away. And then face us, smiling.

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Sorry, I'm not a lawyer, but here's a question: wouldn't it be unconstitutional to make this kind of law retroactive? (Predicted answer: Well, it would be if we had two more justices on our side.)

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

There's an interesting irony here: in 2007, the NYCLU called on U.S. Attorney James Comey to end perp walks. www.nyclu.org/press-releas...

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NYCLU Calls On U.S. Attorney’s Office To End Staged “Perp Walks” - NYCLU

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Ugh. My brain didn't go that far. Depressing thought.

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Actually, in this photo, Chuck looks less like Satan and more like Grandpa leading the Seder .

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Sorry, I don't know how to do that. If you want to contact me, try via my website, michaellaser.com

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I assumed this was by N.C. Wyeth, but I see that it's not. Was it an intentional homage? Anyone know?

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

If you come to New Jersey, we’ll make you dinner. (I mean, we’ll invite you to dinner at our house. Nothing gruesome.)

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

You are great. Keep a-goin'.

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

(I scrolled down to make sure nobody else had said it - and found that you had.)

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

You're a genius. (Not sarcastic.)

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I knew someone would get there before me!

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

My letter in the New York Times. (Scroll down - it's the 3rd letter on the page.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...

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Opinion | Seeking to Stop a Slide Into Autocracy

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Who does this? Who stacks human beings like lumber? The villains of dystopian scifi, that’s who. But this being done on the orders of our president, with our tax dollars. And most of these men haven’t been convicted of a crime. It’s a show of brute force—and it's monstrous. @vanhollen.senate.gov

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

True. But I was also thinking it reminds me of movies where a psychotic criminal holds an ordinary American family hostage.

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I saw these in Queenstown, New Zealand.

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I enjoyed this joke... and then thought, How many of the young'uns seeing this have ever watched Bye, Bye, Birdie? Some baffled googling lies ahead.

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

His words there made me ill. He turns truth upside down every day, with every breath.

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Serious question: shouldn't this be a massive class action suit?

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Michael Laser @mlaser54.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

What about a national vigil to show the world that we DON'T stand by this president? Imagine video of thousands in every city holding candles (or cell phone flashlights) -- which would serve, as well, as a message to Ukraine, that the people of America still stand with them.

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