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- Health care reform reaches inch-by-inch stage, plowing ahead: Health care reform has now reached the plowing head inch-by-inch stage of “progress.” I use quote marks around “progress” to emphasize the uncertainty surrounding the whole issue right now. Unless [...]
- Keeping busy for the holidays? You bet!: I don’t know about you, but these holidays (holi-daze??) times are keeping me as busy as a guy looking for vitamins for hair growth. Okay, I know that’s probably a [...]
- Have you done that ‘early’ Christmas shopping yet?: I have one or two friends who are among those annoying people who buy Christmas presents as early as July or August. They keep sort of a running mental list [...]
- What a country! Room for both Palin and Obama: Today is the official 233rd birthday of the United States of America, so it seemed fitting for me to make a couple of comments about our great country. I couldn’t [...]
- Time to get serious about losing the holiday weight, I guess: I think it’s time — past time in my case! — to get serious about losing the weight put on over the holidays, how about you? Ah, who am I [...]
- Holidays mean more travel — which may mean more luggage fees: Have you flown much lately? Are you planning any flights for Thanksgiving weekend travel, or perhaps a bit further ahead for Christmas and New Year’s? I haven’t flow in awhile, [...]
- What a bummer — FBI warns about Valentine’s Day ecard ‘worm’: What better way to show your love on Valentine’s Day than to send a “worm” infected e-card to your lover to infect his/her computer?? Yeah, what a bummer. In a [...]
- This Buddhist’s tree may tell one of my favorite Christmas stories: A Buddhist who faithfully keeps the family’s 70-year-old Christmas tree on display each year? What kind of Christmas story is that? Read about this Japanese man and about all he [...]
- My present to you: A ‘war on Christmas’ letter from God himself: An evangelical/fundamentalist Christian friend of mine actually sent this to me as a forwarded email. I’ve shortened it and done some light editing. I think it is a marvelous response, [...]
- I’m claiming the first shot fired in 2007 ‘war on Christmas’ — war’s over, get back to living!: Wow, where have I been?? The day after I applauded us all (?) for the toned-down talk about the “war on Christmas” silliness, our local newspaper had a sort of [...]
- Except for a few rumblings, the ‘war on Christmas’ seems strangely silent this year: I’m amazed that I’ve seen or heard very little this year from those well-meaning folks who sound the alarm against those who say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” Have [...]
- ‘Great White Way’ may be dark for the holidays: Shed a tear, I guess, for alas, Broadway may be dim and dark for the holidays. Due to ongoing union strikes involving the stagehands, which apparently have broken down again, [...]
- Best laid holiday travel plans go astray when weather turns sour: Earlier this week our President gained a round of quick applause when he announced the opening of East Coast military flight zones to commercial air travel in the interest of [...]