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A few months ago I wrote about President Harry Truman visiting Tehachapi during the 1948 election campaign. Harry's public approval ratings were in the ditch that year and he was expected to lose big in his try for a full term after...
Posted by editor
- Mon Jul 2, 2007 11:09:56 PDT
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Over the past 25 years my wife and I have enjoyed traveling with a succession of recreational vehicles. We have owned two motorhomes and a fifth wheel trailer at various times, plus two other trailers we kept in place at our favorite...
Posted by editor
- Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:24:52 PDT
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More and more I'm reminded that young people don't share my recollections of stuff that happened 60 or 70 years ago. You would think common sense would make me understand that but I continue to forget that half the population wasn't even...
Posted by editor
- Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:59:33 PDT
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When I was a kid, anybody in our little cornbelt town who had been to Europe was a local celebrity. We had quite a few veterans of the First World War among our neighbors, but hardly any of them had made it overseas. The U.S. got into...
Posted by editor
- Mon Jun 11, 2007 09:37:49 PDT
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If you don't like history you should turn to the sports page right now. That's because I'm going to stop being silly for a moment to bore you with a discussion about a couple of guys from America's past that I think have been treated a...
Posted by editor
- Mon Jun 4, 2007 10:19:38 PDT
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When I learned to type back in the 1940s nearly every typewriter was a manual like my dad's Underwood. There were a few electrics around at that time but they were few and far between. I think the first electric machine was called the...
Posted by editor
- Tue May 29, 2007 10:43:41 PDT
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A while back my wife and I were watching an arty program on T.V. featuring young girls who were dancing ballet. The girls were graceful and talented but my wife was most impressed by the accompanying music which she said was beautiful...
Posted by editor
- Mon May 21, 2007 11:32:50 PDT
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If you're like me, you assume that when the doctor hands you a prescription it's going to help you live longer or at least make you feel better. I haven't assumed that for a long time because I have suffered so many backlashes from...
Posted by editor
- Mon May 14, 2007 10:58:21 PDT
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I never have been good at knowing what to worry about. For some obscure reason I tend to go bonkers over things that aren't worth a tinker's dam while I mostly ignore the really bad stuff.
I suspect most people get their priorities...
Posted by editor
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:39:23 PDT
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A lot of my friends complain about the way Tehachapi has grown and I can understand why. I liked it in the old days when I could back out of my driveway without looking either way. Still, there is an upside to population growth along...
Posted by editor
- Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:34:47 PDT
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My wife and I met when we both worked for the same newspaper over on the coast. That was more than 50 years ago, before lawyers took over the world. I still remember how astonished our employer was when we told him we needed a couple of...
Posted by editor
- Mon Apr 9, 2007 11:06:55 PDT
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It's the little stories from the heartland that define our nation, but you don't know about them unless you get on the Internet and prowl the Web sites of community newspapers.
If your awareness of the world around you comes only from...
Posted by editor
- Mon Apr 2, 2007 11:11:15 PDT
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Sometimes I don't mind being laughed at, but I hope you will control your snickering long enough to consider the seriousness of what I have to tell you.
I want to address an extremely delicate matter because of what happened aboard a...
Posted by editor
- Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:19:05 PDT
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My wife watches Fox News a lot. She has good reason, considering the quality of nearly everything else on the boob tube. As network mogul Fred Silverman once said, most of the time people don't watch what they like. They are more apt to...
Posted by editor
- Mon Mar 12, 2007 09:57:58 PDT
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The next time I'm bleeding to death I think I'll head for Bakersfield.
A few weeks ago I got another nosebleed that probably wasn't life threatening, but it scared the daylights out of me because it looked like I was losing gallons of...
Posted by editor
- Mon Mar 5, 2007 13:30:30 PST
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