Archives in Category: Things to Ponder

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Port Purchase

Posted on February 23, 2006

I’m confused.

For the past five years President Bush has said, time and again, that our national security is of the utmost importance. He has pledged troops to battle on that account; he has limited some of our freedoms too.

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Reader’s Block

Posted on February 22, 2006

They are stacked in their own neat little corner, almost like children who have been given a time out. And what these ten books have in common is that I’ve read approximately two/thirds of each and then set the work

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Headlines

Posted on February 20, 2006

The primary job of headlines in a newspaper is to entice the reader to read the entire article and to sum its contents in several words, in case the reader passes on. Good headlines usually include some double meaning or

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10,000 Missing

Posted on February 18, 2006

The airline industry announced yesterday that approximately 10,000 pieces of luggage go missing every day. And while this isn’t on the same scale as 10,000 people missing in some natural disaster, it makes me wonder what’s going on in the

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Cartoon Politics

Posted on February 16, 2006

Last night’s news broadcasts reported that Vice President Richard Cheney finally assumed personal responsibility for his negligence last week regarding the hunting incident where his friend was injured. I could certainly find more grist for my blog with this turn

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Cheney

Posted on February 15, 2006

Vice President Cheney has been silent so far about his accidentally spraying his friend, attorney Harry Whittington, with buckshot during an afternoon while the two buddies were hunting.

If I were Whittington, I’m not sure I would still call Cheney

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Overscheduled

Posted on February 13, 2006

When I bump shoulders with friends who still have children at home, I am often struck with how busy their lives are. And how scheduled their children’s lives are. There’s school, of course; but then there’s piano lessons on Monday,

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Super Bowl

Posted on February 5, 2006

The 2006 Super Bowl is history. And, no, XL doesn’t stand for extra large, although some may think the television coverage was over the top these past couple weeks. XL stands for forty, which stands for the number of Super

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Broccoflower

Posted on February 1, 2006

Both Earl and my spellchecker shake their respective heads when I purchase broccoflower at the supermarket. Earl winces because he can’t imagine a vegetable that combines the tastes of broccoli and cauliflower when he abhors both. The spellchecker is simply

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Roots

Posted on January 30, 2006

Yesterday I received a call from Gertrude McDonald, who is my first cousin once removed on my mother’s side. It had probably been three or four years since we’d talked; but, as with most of the McDonalds, you can pick

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