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Today’s Pick
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Visiting Square One: Numb3rs
08 March 2012 3:18 AM | No CommentsSometimes, 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 CommentsShame. 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 CommentsAt 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 CommentsThere’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 CommentsI 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 CommentsPeople 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!Politics.
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The Old Guard and the New Media.
14 February 2012 1:46 AM | No CommentsHaving 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 CommentsIn 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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Archive Headlines
Archive for December, 2011
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A Big TY for ESPN. Thank you.
Posted on December 31, 2011 | No CommentsThis is a personal thank you to ESPN. Oh, I’ll admit to bad-mouthing you on occasion over the years. The comedy-team anchors. The rah-rah self-promotion. The shameless proselytizing for the... -
The Kindle Fire Upgrade: a followup.
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No CommentsThe Kindle Fire has been recharged enough times that the newness has worn off, and some of the tablet’s shortcomings as pointed out elsewhere have had time to test my... -
Technology: Where will it go?
Posted on December 20, 2011 | No CommentsI used to get tickled at the thinking of my mother, who marvels at the technological advances that most of us accept without question. To her, some of the things... -
Appreciating Philip K. Dick.
Posted on December 17, 2011 | No CommentsI love Matt Damon movies. Most of them. I love the imagination of Philip K. Dick. Based on the rarity of their appearances in used book stores, people love his...
