In Our World
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A New Day for Seniors
Just how bad is the outlook for Social Security? Check out this story about a 96-year old crack dealer and her accomplices (all around 60 years old). Or this one, about a 92-year old bank robber. Maybe they are just frustrated about all the awards being passed out…
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Fast Food Gloves are Useless
Apparently using gloves with fast food is only useful in keeping up appearances. Like they needed to tell us that. I wonder if they had a grant or something for this sort of study. I could have given them the same results in an afternoon of visiting fast…
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Curacao Day Two
After our first day on Curacao, we decided we were ready to do some exploring. So the next day we wandered the market, which ran along the river. A huge number of boats simply pulled up and unloaded their wares. We had some fresh pineapple, as well as…
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What Are We Doing?
We catch a monster lobster. In typical fashion, we make a fuss about it. The lobster moves to a zoo, in order to decide if he can make it to an aquarium. The lobster dies. Now I'm generally more a proponent for the People Eating Tasty Animals than…
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Curacao, Netherlands Antilles
Just a few minutes after we left Bonaire, we found ourselves landing on Curacao. This airport was easily the busiest that we saw on the whole trip – including the one in Charlotte! This is not to say that there was the same amount of traffic, pedestrian or…
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To Juice or not to Juice
Barry Bonds is all up in arms (again) about the use of steroids in baseball. Others are all uptight about the sanctity of records from a time when there were no steroids in baseball. Frankly, I don't see why we care. Obviously there is a call for steroid…
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Girl Scout Cookie Scandal
Okay, it's not really a scandal (at least not yet), but I wanted something catchy. Ever the helpful neighbors, we bought a box of Girl Scout Cookies the other day. Actually, we bought 'em a few weeks ago, but they were delivered the other day. Cost? $3.50. Pretty…
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Satellite Radio Programming
I don't listen to much radio. Sure, if I'm in the car I'll flip on (or flip off) Bob and Tom. Once in a while I'll even turn on the radio on the way home to catch some updated scores from a game. But I simply cannot imagine…
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Why Is It So Hard?
The Problem: Some people want to see a female president, implying that we just ought to put one there, without, say, a vote on the subject. As if it's time for quotas in government. Can't we get over that hump already? My Proposal: You want a woman in…
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Are National ID Cards Coming?
CNet is reporting that national ID cards may be effectively on the way. Frankly, I don't get it. The article says only that states must comply with federal antiterrorist standards by 2008. It doesn't actually say that the federal government will be implementing a national ID card. Even…