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One day more than 60 years ago I came home from the store with a pound of margarine that simply amazed my mother. To understand why, you need to know that in those days dairymen had enough political clout to get a law passed that...
Posted by editor
- Mon Feb 25, 2008 14:59:24 PST
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Whenever I watch football on TV it seems there is always a commercial showing athletes eating canned soup with expressions of ecstasy. The advertiser must have to pay these guys a pretty penny to keep them from spitting out the tasteless...
Posted by editor
- Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:04:55 PST
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A few months ago the news media gave a lot of attention to the passing of author Norman Mailer. I believe he wrote more than 40 books during his career but I was able to wade through just one, although I also read a couple of his short...
Posted by editor
- Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:29:19 PST
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For most of my life I've been told that the Chinese represented a dire threat to America. The communists under Mao did kill Americans in the Korean War and they treated their own people even worse. Being a Chinese official during the...
Posted by editor
- Mon Feb 4, 2008 16:37:29 PST
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In my long life I have lived through many irritating trends in human affairs but none have earned my contempt as much as the movement known as Political Correctness. This is mostly the invention of liberals who want to censor other...
Posted by editor
- Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:56:29 PST
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I'll bet I'm the only guy on Dennison Road who got to choose his own name.
My birth certificate refers to me as Edward William Barnett. After my father and mother were killed in separate accidents, I was declared surplus property and...
Posted by editor
- Mon Nov 5, 2007 13:11:50 PST
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Several months ago somebody in Tijuana heard strange noises in a dumpster and I ended up paying the price.
Let me start at the beginning. My granddaughter and her husband run a business in San Diego. One of their employees, who has...
Posted by editor
- Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:23:33 PDT
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In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” a character named Blanche says something to the effect that she has always depended on the kindness of strangers.
I think I know what she means. For most of my life I have depended on...
Posted by editor
- Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:53:14 PDT
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I hope you're paying attention when I tell you the most interesting news isn't found in the New York Times or on the Fox News channel. For my money, the really neat stuff comes off the pages of community newspapers around the country....
Posted by editor
- Mon Oct 8, 2007 11:06:34 PDT
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I keep reminding myself that the vast majority of living Americans don't remember most of what I remember about national and world events. That's because I'm 80 years old and this year's college graduates, for instance, are 24 years old...
Posted by editor
- Mon Oct 1, 2007 14:10:01 PDT
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It's a good thing I'm too old to look for work. That's because I no longer understand much of the reasoning that seems to pass for wisdom in the business world these days.
I don't like generalities either so let me get to the point. I...
Posted by editor
- Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:59:35 PDT
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My wife and I are back from Louisville, Ky. where we put our grandson into an institution for life. The institution is called marriage and the quality of the lady he wed makes it pretty certain he'll stay there for life. Our unruly...
Posted by editor
- Mon Sep 10, 2007 15:53:13 PDT
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I'm stuck in a time warp when it comes to the beginning of the school year. When I was growing up in the cornbelt back in the 1930s and '40s, school let out near the end of May and picked up again the day after Labor Day. If you think...
Posted by editor
- Mon Sep 3, 2007 10:52:35 PDT
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If you're like most folks, you wonder how you ever survived without the innovations that keep flooding into our lives, including computers, cell phones, cars that park themselves and so on. I hate to rain on your parade but the primitive...
Posted by editor
- Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:20:39 PDT
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Being the grandfather of high-achieving kids has its downside. They are living reminders that I was a slow starter when I was their ages. One of my grandchildren is manager and part owner of a good-sized business in San Diego, another is...
Posted by editor
- Mon Jul 9, 2007 11:33:00 PDT
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