Bill Moeller Commentary: There Comes a Time When ‘Bird Brain’ Is Not an Insult

By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle

Posted 6/28/23

This column was first printed in The Chronicle in July 2009, and it began with this line: “The other day (all right, so it will be ‘the other week’ by the time you read this), I had …

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