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Reunions

July 13, 2009

For an old guy, my travels have been keeping the Arab world financially solvent this past month or so. After enjoying 36 degrees in June up in the tundra around Mackinac Island I spent 9 days at Tennessee’s Fall Creek Falls State Park for my wife’s family reunion. This past weekend was devoted to my […]

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Tranquility Base

June 26, 2009

The astronauts had their Tranquility Base on the Moon’s Mare Tranquillitatis. They wouldn’t share so I had to find one for myself. It is Buzzard’s Roost in Tennessee’s Fall Creek Falls State Park. And no, it wasn’t named for me. Once again it’s time to veg out and gain some more weight. How else will […]

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It’s Great To Be A Guy

June 22, 2009

Here is my small tribute to all of the fellow members of my gender for Father’s Day. Why it’s great to be a guy.

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I’m Back!

June 8, 2009

Yeah. At least as scary a thought of Jack Nicholson being back is my return. Your luck has run out. My little vacation is over. I did try to write a post while on my trip. I was able to squeeze in a bit of writing but was too busy sampling regional cuisines to complete […]

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The Catfish Award

April 9, 2009

I am initiating a new, virtual award. It is dedicated to our endless supply of bottom feeders. The difficult part is, and will continue to be, deciding among the superabundance of candidates. If I had the time this could be an hourly award. Okay, who has the honor of being the first recipient?

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Of Two Minds

April 6, 2009

In my dotage the fogey in me has preeminence. My wife has semi-unretired from teaching and this is the week of Spring Break. During my first trips through the Groves of Academe I doubt that most college students had discovered Mexico; certainly not Cancun. Ft. Liquordale may have been an actual fort back in those […]

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Odds And Ends

March 11, 2009

There are so many issues on which to comment that I can’t keep up. Each one deserves at least a book, as an antidote to all of the nonsense clogging up the airwaves, cable, the Internet and the dead tree media. Note: I have a special video treat for everyone staying to the end of […]

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Joe The Illiterate

February 24, 2009

Joe the Plumber became a media star, a foreign correspondent, a lecturer to Republican Congressmen and an expert in various other areas without ever having been a plumber, or even a Joe. Joe Scarborough became a politician and television star with no ability to communicate. Joe’s problem, one of many, is a total unfamiliarity with […]

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Setting Up

June 24, 2008

Welcome. This is a new site, so you get to be among the early vict . . . er, visitors. I’m a long way from finished with the design and operational side of this blog but don’t let that stop you. You now have one more place to read and post all of those absolutely […]

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Starting the Whatever Category

June 23, 2008

Whatever doesn’t fit well within any of the other categories.

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