Archive for September, 2007
The Bigger They Are…
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Seems a day doesn’t go by when there’s not a news story about the mis-deeds, bad actions, or just plain horrendous attitude of some Hollywood star.
You’d think they all were a degenerate bunch of self-serving pleasure seekers.
But, back in 1982, an incident occurred that put Paul Newman on the top of my permanent [...]
Scamming For Dollars….
By now—most everybody whose been on-line for more than 7 minutes has gotten one of those e-mails promising untold riches by the bag-load…and most of the time, we just hit the delete key and keep on looking at wacky videos on You-Tube…
But the other day– this one found its way into my computer—
—and as [...]
YAKITTY YAK—They Talk Back….
When I started this blog 18 minutes ago– I promised it would be a place where you could talk back to your TV.. ( we even put it in the title to make sure the promise wouldn’t be forgotten.)
Our recent post regarding brushes with greatness prompted reader Lisa Sullivan to send us her own tale… [...]
STEPPING IN IT….
There are times in everybody’s life when they’ve said—boy, I wish I’d NEVER said that….
It’s especially true when you can look at your words through the perfect vision of hindsight…
What seemed so assured at the time turns out to be dead wrong…
So in that spirit of 20/20 hindsight—let’s look at some quotes of note from [...]
BRUSHES WITH GREATNESS…
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There are times in your life when your path crosses someone else’s—and that person is either doing wonderful things with their life—or is on the way towards doing wonderful things.
I can recall a couple instances…
BRUSH WITH GREATNESS #1….
Back in the mid 70’s I was looking for work and ended up at the CBS [...]
A SOLDIER’S STORY…
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They say the best way to understand someone else’s life is to walk a mile in their shoes… And so it is with the men and women who are fighting for us overseas… You have to experience what they are going through…
* You won’t get it in the newspaper…
* You won’t get in [...]
Bits & Pieces, Odds & Ends Version2.0 ….
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More idle thoughts and random rants…
WATER MESS…
It seems to me we’re really starting to get into dire straights with regard to the water issue around here.
The list of places imposing mandatory and severe restrictions grows daily…
The drought monitor lists much of this area in EXTREME DROUGHT..
Yet— one thing about the restrictions [...]
ANOTHER O.J. MOMENT…….
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Here we go again—another episode in the life of Detective O.J. Simpson
In his latest adventure—he was “conducting a sting operation” on people he said were selling his stolen memorabilia.
As you might recall, Detective O-J’s track record as an apprehender of bad guys is sort of dismal.
After he was acquitted of the murders [...]
A TALE OF TWO BRAINS….
A recent New York University and UCLA study indicates there’s a real difference between a liberal’s brain–and a conservative’s brain..
In other words—-politics isn’t a choice–-it’s genetic..
You’re either born a blue brain or a red brain..
Now.. I’m not the smartest guy in the room—and I don’t have a string of letters following my name [...]
Grandpa’s Blog…
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My paternal grandfather was an interesting fellow.
An Italian immigrant born in 1885, he was a brick mason by trade, an amateur poet, a sometimes politician, and a blogger. Yes a Blogger…
Although he never saw a computer, or even used a typewriter to set down his tomes–he blogged. And I have all 232 pages [...]
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