• Bush Vetoes Charcoal Grill Bill; Cites Carbon As Fundamental Component Of All Life

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    As expected, George Bush exercised his veto power and expunged the controversial Charcoal Grill Bill that the Senate and the House, growing wiser about the promise of science, bravely passed – without, however, enough votes to override his ill-considered flick of the pen. The bill would have allowed federal funding for barbeque research. It was the first veto of his presidency.Read more…
  • A Life Of Lorenzo Da Ponte:Talent Flies; Practical Reason Walks

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    Among the world’s favorite operas, we find three of them with a libretto penned by Lorenzo Da Ponte and music by none other than the astonishingly delightful Viennese ear-confectioner Mozart. The list is a delight in itself: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovann, and Cos? Fan Tutte.Read more…
  • Just Say No To Sex; Dr. Coburn Shows You How! - Part 8

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    He looked at Dan critically. “Now, I realize that you know more than most of my students about the snares of evening – evening, when the human race seems to be most susceptible to lust, generally disguised as moonlight and romance, love, as the euphemism goes.”“I kind of remember.Read more…
  • Israeli-Hezbollah Conflict Moves To Center Stage; Insurgents In Iraq Strike Back

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    Pity the neglected insurgents in Iraq. Since the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict has taken center stage in the ongoing tragedy called The Triumph Over Terrorism, the war in Iraq has been relegated, even if briefly, to the wings.Obviously, the insurgents in what was once, perhaps, a nation, though subjugated by murderous tyranny, had grown used to their starring role on the world’s overly troubled stage, as the leading villains in the unfortunate tale.Read more…
  • The Two-Headed Monster

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    It was Halloween night (1995), and my wife and I took our boys, ages 10 and 12 to a Halloween party at the local elementary school, which both boys attended. This was the first time I had attended a Halloween party like this, so I didn't know what to expect.We arrived at the school, and all of us headed for the school cafeteria, where the festivities were to take place.Read more…
  • Can You Dig It

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    Erma Bombeck made it look so easy. So do Dave Barry, Patrick McManus and a host of other great humorists. But despite the ease with which they make us laugh, writing humor is tough.Read more…
  • Traffic Jams in the Super Market

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    Everywhere you go there seems to be a line or a traffic jam. For instance the other day I was in the supermarket and I could not get through the aisle because there were so many people with shopping carts.Two ladies even had those gigantic shopping carts, which look like little cars that have kids in them; you know the ones?Read more…
  • Have a Nice Day is So Pass Say

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    Have you ever noticed that fewer and fewer people are telling others to; Have a Nice Day! It seems that using the phrase have a nice day is to plain and ordinary, so people have stopped using it. Perhaps it was overused at one time and it is kind of funny to listen to someone tell all the customers to have a nice day over and over again.Read more…
  • Creek on Fire

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    One would think it impossible to set a creek on fire. But that was only a minor challenge for Cousin Charley.Regular readers of this column have met Charley before as a disrupter of church revivals and perpetrator of floods.Read more…
  • Decoration Day Boom!

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    Folks said Uncle Athanatious didn't have enough sense to come in out of the rain. However, neither would you if you were in his business.Uncle Athan - no one dared call him by his full handle - operated a gunpowder mill.Read more…
  • How Cousin Charley Unraveled Church Revival Service - Down Home Story

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    It wasn't that Cousin Charley was mean, or even irreligious. He just had a hard time figuring out where fun left off and devilment started.Charley was a natural-born hell raiser in a time and part of the country where dissent was tolerated -- if not admired -- if it was imaginative and daring.Read more…
  • Nobody Cares

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    Have you ever talked to a child who was very upset and they said; Nobody Cares? Have you ever talked to an adult with depression who stated; Nobody Cares? Have you ever thought to yourself when something was very important to you; Nobody Cares?Read more…
  • All I Got Was This Snake

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    As I write this I have a little snake on my shoulder. It is kind of like a chip, but it is stuffed with cotton and would not taste good when placed in dip. The snake is worth about a dollar, but I was lucky enough to only pay about twenty for it...Read more…
  • Equal Rights: Up In Smoke?

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    Whoever said being equal is a good thing? In the late 60's, 1968 to be exact, women were crying, "EQUAL RIGHTS", wanting to be treated equally to men. Why?Read more…
  • Word Play: Flies That Zip Or Flies That Fly?

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    The word "fly" is a homograph. Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and different origins. For example, there is the fly on your pants, referred to as a zipper, and that pesky winged insect that makes annoying buzzing sounds.Read more…
  • The Crack In the Southern Belle

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    Why do I write? Why do I subject myself to all this rejection?On any given day of the week I can get turned down on almost anything I request from another person.Read more…
  • Lemons are Sour, Relief is Sweet

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    One annoyance I suffer is from people with the same disorders as myself. Sleeping hard the other night at two in the morning, I was awakened by my accursed telephone. It was my best friend, John Smith.Read more…
  • Turkey-Wattle Goozle - I've Got You Under My Chin

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    I woke up one morning and noticed something hanging under my chin. It was skin. It didn’t look right to me so I asked my mother about it.Read more…
  • Hindsight is 20/20: Where Are My Reading Glasses?

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    Reading glasses are a necessary component to my reading and writing activities, so the other day when I couldn't find them I was frantic. I searched the entire house as well as my pickup truck and they were nowhere to be found.My spouse will tell you that my glasses have re-appeared in places such as the refrigerator (next to the coffee creamer), and in a potted plant (we're not sure about that one).Read more…
  • Wonderful Neck Tie Jokes

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    Here are some interesting tie jokes that shall make you laugh definitely. 1. A man gets a new neck tie for his birthday but within a few days he takes it back to the shop. The salesperson at the shop asked him what was wrong with it he replied “One end is longer than the other end”.Read more…

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