Archive for August, 2006
Outrage at China
This is almost too shocking to be believable but it is real. When I look at my sweet little Sammy, my stomach churns at what’s going on in China. That country is in the midst of a massive cull of tens of thousands of dogs in an ignorant and backwards attempt to curb the spread [...]
Read More..>>Attack Of The Killer Bees
One of the juniper bushes out back is sticking way out and interfering with the enjoyment of the slide into the pool. We were in a landscaping frame of mind yesterday, Wray cut a swath through the front and we’re making headway on cleaning things up, so when he went out to run some errands [...]
Read More..>>Time To Pack It In
No one over 25 should carry a backpack to work. I’m not talking about those fancy-pants little leather numbers that are really purses which you carry by the handles. I’m talking about real backpacks, the ones with a hundred zippers that you lugged to school every day full of books and pudding cups. If you’re [...]
Read More..>>Holding Out For A Hero
Genovese syndrome means, in broad strokes, that the more people who witness a crime, the less likely anyone will do something about it. One witness feels the entire burden of stopping the act – a murder, robbery or whatever. But when there are many witnesses, the burden becomes fractured and no one person tends to [...]
Read More..>>It’s Only Words
Words words words! In the news business they are the building blocks upon which we construct a foundation of facts. The words that some on our team were focused on today were “convicted pedophile”. You will see it everywhere, including on the websites of our competitors, but there is no such thing. There is no [...]
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