The dishes from our Sunday BBQ had been washed and put away. The smell of brisket and strawberries hung in the air. It was Phoenix in 1964. The summer heat made outside entertainment undesirable, so our neighbor from down the street gave my father a record to play on our homemade Hi Fi system. “You’re […]
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There is no rational discourse between the two sides of the Second Amendment debate. This is a pity but understandable when one considers that most of the people involved are driven totally by emotion. I have written a couple of columns about guns, gun culture, and the law: https://usrepresented.com/staging/2987/2016/03/29/who-are-the-good-guys-with-guns/ https://usrepresented.com/staging/2987/2014/06/30/when-the-tide-goes-way-way-out/ But now that the Democrats
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The antique clock bonged the half hour as I squirmed in the big overstuffed Victorian style chair. My six-year-old clock reading skills were not yet good enough to calculate exactly how long I had been sitting there. But it was too long. I looked again at my McGuffey Reader. Dick, Jane and Spot stared back
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In sports there are many references to coaching trees. Bill Parcells, Bill Walsh, and Phil Jackson are examples of successful head coaches who mentored assistant coaches who then went on to be successful themselves. Comedy has its own version of the coaching tree; let’s call it the comedy tree. Exhibit A is Sid Caesar’s Your
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A trending video on YouTube was posted by someone who set up a time lapse camera to record the hatching of four robin eggs. Instead, the camera captured a snake gobbling up all four eggs after the birds left the nest temporarily unguarded. Some viewers were horrified at seeing Nature at work, which to me
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Now that the dust of primary season is beginning to settle, the fall campaign between Hillary and Trump is shaping up. The matchup, which I predicted months ago, will be brutal and nasty on a level we haven’t seen since the 1800s. But I am now convinced Hillary will win the presidency in a landslide.
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And that’s how a girl gets pregnant,” Teo said in his thick Polish accent. Alan nodded his assent as he pushed his hair out of his eyes. “That’s cannibalistic,” was my reply. My eleven year-old mind meant to say primitive. Surely human civilization had a better way to reproduce than what I had just heard
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I was lying on my bed, lost on the island world of Swiss Family Robinson, when I heard the crash. I jumped up and ran into the combination laundry room / bathroom of our new house and was overcome immediately by the bleach vapors. Broken shards of brown glass from the Clorox bottle were everywhere.
I’m going to hell. No doubt about it. I say that without any trepidation, worry, or concern. When I say it to some people, they promise to pray for me. That’s cool, I tell them. I certainly won’t discourage anyone from throwing positive energy my way. But if there’s a Biblical sulfuric pit of endless
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I pulled the yellow Rubbermaid dish washing gloves off and turned them upside down. Dirty water drained out of them. I examined my hands. They were white, prune-like, bleeding, and stinging from the harsh laundry detergent I had to keep pouring into the cleaning water. “Are you gonna git to work or stand around feeling
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