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CHRISTIAN MINGLE
I rarely listen to commercials broadcast on television. One recently caught my attention. The title is “Christian Mingle.” Under ordinary circumstances, when I have some curiosity about a commercial, I ask the sponsors of the commercial for some detail. In this case, I do not desire to get involved with Christian Mingle because I suspect…
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COPENHAGEN SNUFF
At the moment, I am involved with this essay on the horns of a modest dilemma. The dilemma has to do with the Republican Party whose candidate in the year 2012 in all likelihood will be Mitt Romney. As it turns out Mitt Romney is a Mormon. This may be hard to be believed in…
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A.W.K. UND STALIES
As most of you are aware, I spent a good part of my time with the Bell System in the field of labor relations. The management of AT&T, principally Verne Bagnell, decided in July of 1951 that I should become a management employee. There were two moves in the future to Kansas City and then…
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OXYMORON
One of the most interesting features of the English language, or I suppose of many other languages as well, has to do with the term, oxymoron. The word is taken from the Greek words for sharp and dull. The definition is a figure of speech in which two incongruous or contradictory words exist side by…
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KEEPERS OF BROTHERS
Dear Brothers and Sisters: The scriptural text for this morning’s sermon is taken from Genesis 4 verses 8 and 9. These verses say as follows: And Cain talked with Abel, his brother. It came to pass when they were in the field; Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and slew him. The Lord said…
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THE SOO-PREMES AT WORK
This essay has to do with the Supreme Court of the sweet-smelling United States of America. I have been a court watcher for many years and I have come to the conclusion that no one should ever contend that the Supreme Court is being worked to death. Quite the opposite is true. The Supreme Court…
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WHILE I AM HERE
This is a two part essay. In the beginning it refers to While I am Here. Finally, there is a comment about When I am Gone. Within a month my 90th birthday will occur. I do not look forward to it with a sense of exhilaration nor do I look forward to that event with…
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TOO SOON OLD…
For the past 12 or 15 years, I have been a friend of Gregorio Russo. Gregorio works in the produce department of the Whole Foods Market. In the former location of the Whole Foods Market, he was the first person who came into view as you entered the market. Now that market has moved to…
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Blog: Thoughts on the RNC
[NOTE: This is a blog, not an essay. The difference between the two is that essays are planned at length, dictated, given to Eva Baker for transcription, and then finally re-edited and mailed out to all his friends and regular readers in hard-copy. This, conversely is just some thoughts on yesterday’s Republican National Convention that…
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KNIVES, EVERYDAY AND SUNDAY
In this essay I am going to be talking only about pocket knives, as distinguish from knives that are meant to kill. I suspect that this again is an exercise in nostalgia. Looking back more than 70 or 75 years ago, there was a custom having to do with knives. My father, for example, would…