Clichés: the List, cont’d.

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  Visiting Square One: Numb3rs
  08 March 2012 3:18 AM | No Comments

  Sometimes, it is worthwhile to take those prognosticators back to the beginning and hold their feet to the fire. For example, the snarky review of Numb3rs, the crime drama that...

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  EMSA: Tulsa’s Mercenary Motorists
  06 March 2012 2:42 AM | No Comments

  Shame. A word we have replaced with expletives and derivatives in today’s vernacular, but all the same, shame on you EMSA. You are the service with whom the public trust...

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  Where went those innocent times?
  29 February 2012 4:19 AM | No Comments

  At some point, youthful pride diminishes, to be taken over by what might pass as elderly scholarship, in allowing us the joy of holding our grandchildren and rocking them from...

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Music.

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  Whitney Houston: My Frequent AM Companion. FM too.
  17 February 2012 11:24 PM | No Comments

  There’s no question I listened to more Whitney Houston than people the age of my children, who were toddlers at the height of her vocal prowess. I’m guessing I heard...

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  TV and the Memory Blast.
  02 February 2012 1:08 AM | No Comments

  I happened to catch Woodstock the other night. Don’t know the channel or network, and I came in late. One of those channel-flipping things. When I recognized what it was,...

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  Winehouse cause of death: Tragic, no surprise.
  26 October 2011 9:23 AM | No Comments

  People are not freight trains. Tons of metal hurtling down the track toward a broken bridge cannot be brought to a halt with the snap of the fingers. People are...

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One Famous Name!

• What does the last name Bonds mean?
• What does the last name Staley mean?

Politics.

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  The Old Guard and the New Media.
  14 February 2012 1:46 AM | No Comments

  Having spent the majority of my adult life in the news media, it is increasingly difficult to admire the current product, both written and electronic versions. While many newspapers have...

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  Perry gaffe: Does presidency require unscripted oration?
  10 November 2011 11:01 AM | No Comments

  In all likelihood, the critics predicting the end of the Rick Perry campaign have never stood before an audience to give unscripted answers to unrehearsed questioning. If they had, they...

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  Visiting Square One: Numb3rs
  08 March 2012 3:18 AM | No Comments

  Sometimes, it is worthwhile to take those prognosticators back to the beginning and hold their feet to the fire. For example, the snarky review of Numb3rs, the crime drama that...

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  Peyton’s place: Leaving Indy, remaining in hearts.
  07 March 2012 11:37 PM | No Comments

  I guess it means I’m a fan. There was a note about a televised press conference Wednesday morning. I got up off the couch for the remote and turned on...

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  EMSA: Tulsa’s Mercenary Motorists
  06 March 2012 2:42 AM | No Comments

  Shame. A word we have replaced with expletives and derivatives in today’s vernacular, but all the same, shame on you EMSA. You are the service with whom the public trust...

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Food.

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  Ummm, just taste that big steaming bowl of Red Slime!
  01 February 2012 2:55 AM | No Comments

  Given the amount of money that is generated annually by the food industry, it is surprising that Chef Jamie Oliver has not been the subject of some corporation’s Hit List....

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  The government legislating your health: Good idea?
  01 December 2011 3:38 PM | No Comments

  A perfect example of the law of unintended consequences is one currently in play in San Francisco. There, city officials passed a measure that prohibits fast food restaurants from giving...

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Oddballs

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  Irsay can you see? Peyton Place and the Colts.
  15 February 2012 2:10 AM | No Comments

  I cheer for the Indianapolis Colts. My reason is simple, and I guess – overall – pretty foolish. I like Peyton Manning. As a kid, our house was more American...

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  Could Angelina be one of the 12 Monkeys?
  09 February 2012 12:34 AM | No Comments

  If you could travel back in time, and ran into yourself as a kid, would it influence your life to come? What if you witnessed – as a kid –...

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  Ummm, just taste that big steaming bowl of Red Slime!
  01 February 2012 2:55 AM | No Comments

  Given the amount of money that is generated annually by the food industry, it is surprising that Chef Jamie Oliver has not been the subject of some corporation’s Hit List....

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McHuston’s Rant

• Moving day: Virtual men and a truck.
  Back in the day – and fortunately I have survived so long as to be able to relate this – it was a simple matter to change locations. Move the stuff and the sign, and when the bank checks run out, order new ones with the correct street number. Voila. Oh, sure. There are a few minor […]

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  When heroes fall: Lenny Dykstra and muddled vision.
  05 March 2012 7:38 PM | No Comments

  As an American League follower, I can’t recite any stats about Lenny Dykstra, but baseball fans of his era will certainly remember the player. He was active in the late...

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  How close before the violence worries us?
  20 February 2012 11:35 PM | No Comments

  If you got in your car in Tulsa and drove south for half-a-day, you’d find yourself having left the state of Oklahoma for the Mexican state of Nuevo Leone, where...

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