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Author: Ted Roberts
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Ted Roberts

Ted Roberts' humor appears in newspapers around the US and is heard on NPR.
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Somebody’s Gonna Win

Ted Roberts April 2, 2012 November 10, 2020

And that somebody is the state.

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Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs

Ted Roberts February 11, 2012 November 10, 2020

Blocking up the scenery, insulting our minds.

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The Simple Life

Ted Roberts January 2, 2011 August 18, 2020

Just because the year has ended doesn’t mean that life as we understand it has to end.

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Rating Confusion

Ted Roberts October 1, 2010 November 18, 2020

Of course we all know the law of unintended consequences, but some of us don’t know that Robert Burns — Scotland’s eternal poet laureate — …

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Strike it Rich

Ted Roberts June 1, 2010 November 18, 2020

Some people are lucky, some aren’t. Take Larry Langford, a maven of machines of chance. He’s one of the blessed ones. Lucky Larry won more …

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Doesn’t Take a Weatherman

Ted Roberts July 1, 2009 November 18, 2020

I’m in a lousy mood since the weatherman just ruined my weekend. “Torrential storms, hail, and frozen cannonballs,” she ranted. Reality – nothing but blue …

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Self-Abuse

Ted Roberts July 1, 2009 November 18, 2020

Wise men, from the first millennia suburbs of Athens to today’s Ph.D.s in linguistics at MIT, have long observed that if a problem, social or …

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Fire at Will

Ted Roberts June 1, 2009 November 18, 2020

I find myself in no-man’s land defending (almost) the unimaginable action of a government official firing the CEO of a publicly owned company. Stormed at …

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Buffett Gives It Away

Ted Roberts March 1, 2008 November 18, 2020

Warren Buffett, a man fattened by the virtues of capitalism, told the Congress recently that he favored the estate tax, which for the next couple …

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Rank and Russia

Ted Roberts January 1, 2008 November 18, 2020

In the ’30s and ’40s, when the world was young and naive, Freud and his fellow psychotherapists had legions of followers. Theories of human behavior …

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