UberThoughts USA

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Visiting Column #46 -- Separation Anxiety

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I was in my car today when I heard that the House and Senate had each proposed its own version of a form of legislation to address police op...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Visiting Column #45 -- Wait a Minute, I Actually KNOW That Guy!

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OK, there's a lot of stuff going on in the world, which makes it the perfect time to write about something that is totally irrelevant an...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Visiting Column #44 -- My COVID-19 Figures or Yours

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I got a tweeted reply today to something I had written, in regard to the status of breweries in North and South Carolina relative to Wuhan v...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Visiting Column #43 -- Where Goes the Judge?

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Yes, this is about Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, and I sure as heck don't like having to write it and to be hearing about the case. ...
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Thursday, May 7, 2020

Visiting Column #42 -- Nothing New, Apparently

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It has been a while since the last column here, so I thought it might be a good idea to share that yours truly is still alive and well, hole...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Visiting Column #41 -- Peddling that License Plate

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It is certainly arguable that the greatest baseball game in recorded history took place October 21, 1975, in Fenway Park, that geriatric gre...
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Monday, March 23, 2020

Visiting Column #40 -- Safe Spaces

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I have not been on a college campus for quite some time now, not as a visitor and not as a student, but we sure hear a lot about college stu...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Visiting Column #39 -- Danke Sehr!

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February, which ends this weekend, is a peculiar month. It is, as you are well aware, the shortest month, even in leap years like this one...
Monday, February 24, 2020

Visiting Column #38 -- The Most Effective Debate Prep

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I know that President Trump has said recently that he "won" all of the debates in the 2016 campaign, said in the context of his as...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Visiting Column #37 -- What Exactly Will Mike "Get Done"?

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As this is being written, there have been two 2020 events, the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, which have combined to accomplis...
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Monday, February 10, 2020

Visiting Column #36 -- Raspberries and Baseball

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Deep as we are into the 2020 presidential campaign, it feels like a good time for a laugh-at-myself story.  Actually, it always feels like a...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Visiting Column #35 -- I Was the Vote that Kept Jeter from Being Unanimous

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OK, I wasn't.  I write, but I don't get a vote for who gets into the Baseball Hall of Fame.  I'm not a member of the Baseball Wr...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Visiting Column #34 -- The Best Thing President Trump Ever Did

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Earlier today in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump did a fairly brief (for him) press conference.  Now, if you can tell me a president in ...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Visiting Column #33 -- Da Doo Tehran Ron, Da Doo Ron Ron

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I have a feeling that my zero readers in Iran might have a quizzical look on their faces upon reading the title of this piece.  But since th...
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Thursday, January 2, 2020

Visiting Column #32 -- Explain It to Uncle Joe, Please

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Joe Biden, the former vice president and former senator, is running for president these days, as you surely know.  That's enough to keep...
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Robert Sutton
Robert Sutton had written a daily piece for this site for four years, and now adds an occasional "visiting column." A graduate of M.I.T. with a degree in biology, he has also attended the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Boston Conservatory of Music -- a fine example of his combined inability to do one thing well, or the diversity of his interests, whatever you would like to infer. He is also a four-time international champion in barbershop singing as well as doing historical research on early quartet champions, and was a well-known performer of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the 1970s. He has performed the National Anthem for MLB games at Fenway Park, Camden Yards, Memorial Stadium and whatever the White Sox stadium is called this week. He does have an actual profession, too, consulting to the defense contracting community for many years. He routinely answers email at bsutton@alum.mit.edu or on Twitter (@rmosutton) and is happy to hear from readers . . . "UberThoughtsUSA" reflects the "other" meaning of the German word "über" -- "in regard to." The posts here, every weekday might, on a given day, be in regard to -- "über" -- almost anything.
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