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50 Years of Life, A Retrospective: Part II
The Top Ten Sporting Events I Have Seen Live (no, not in person, but on TV…silly). They are listed in no particular order, and they are my list, meaning that some of them may have no meaning to others. Deal with it. Since I’m adding…
50 Years of Life, a Retrospective: Part 1
As I head toward that benchmark, arriving four weeks from yesterday, I’m going to have a little bit of fun making some lists. You may think my lists funny, stupid, ridiculous; I don’t care, it’s my life, hence my lists. Some will be more serious,…
Rand Paul and the Tea Party Movement
Rand Paul, Republican Senate candidate from Kentucky, has become one of the “poster children”, of sorts, for the Tea Party movement. It’s not surprising, of course, that the media paints the Tea Party as a bunch of fringe kooks—we’ve come to expect such tripe from…
Giving it Away
The Giving Pledge is a new movement founded by mega-billionaires to give away sizeable chunks of their fortunes to charity. Good for them. It is a little funny—and sad—that in the AJC article, Ted Turner feels compelled to state the exact amount of his contributions,…
Why We Will Lose the "Gay Marriage" Debate
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this one, it would seem, is over. Not immediately, and maybe not even with the eventual first decision of the Supreme Court (right now, I think that the loony judge’s decision overturning Prop 8 would…