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| | WHERE SELDOM IS HEARD AN AMERICAN WORD
06/05/2006
It can't properly be called the last straw, because every time things appear to have gone too far, they go even farther.
It used to annoy me when automated answering devices (aggravating enough by their very nature) asked me to punch a number if I wis
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| | OF "THE" I DO NOT SING, BABY - NOR SHOULDST THOU!
05/23/2006
I can't imagine anyone saying it better than did Mark Twain: "All generalities are false, including this one."
Painting with a broad brush too often amounts to painting with a bad brush, when the breadth of the brush stroke covers irrelevant areas.
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| | IS A PITY PARTY ABOUT POTTY PARITY PITHY OR PETTY?
05/13/2006
Let not any cynical reader dismiss the above question as frivolous query, or just another challenging tongue-twister, or cruel and unusual punishment of people who tend to spray when dealing with a sequence of alliterative "p" words! It is, rest assured,
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| | THRIFT IS NOT A FOUR-LETTER WORD, KIDS!
04/18/2006
I suffer no delusions about the impact of the following piece on the generations slated to inherit the earth - or what's left of it - after I and my antique contemporaries have kicked the bucket.
No more than we heeded much of the advice from our fore
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| | NEITHER FELONS NOW NOR FELLOW AMERICANS YET
04/18/2006
Although it's a claim denied by the left-leaningest among my readers, I have a heart - and it goes out to those who sneak across our borders in search of a better life.
Technically, they are criminals - every one of them - but so is the starving per
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| | Immigration: A Big Issue
04/18/2006
It is hard to believe that the government is finally looking into ways to fix the immigration problem. With over 12 million ILLEGAL immigrants here in the United States and more than 400,000 new migrants each year, the issues are a major concern to the se
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