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Soft in the Middle
No, I’m not talking about our penchant (at least here in the U. S.) to eat as if there were no tomorrow. Not that that wouldn’t be a worthy and interesting topic. Like a lot of people, I’m getting...
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Lost in America
Springtime? In my last entry, I did some editorializing about America’s “tuned out” middle class. My rather pointed implication was that, as a group, they’re not very smart. Stupid. Dumb. Ignorant....
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Time’s Up
Unnamed waterfall, Robert Treman SP That, at least, is what Harold Camping would have us all believe. Our time is up. It’s all over. The world as we know it begins its descent into hell at 6:00 PM...
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“By Dawn’s Early Light”
Coast Guard Station, Genesee River If you live in the U. S., or if you follow American politics at all, regardless of where you live, you gotta admit that this has been a banner week for our version of...
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Let them eat Pizza
Chimney Bluffs and Lake Ontario Pizza is a vegetable. You know, those round hot things that don’t grow in the ground, don’t need any kind of planting, have no leaves or stems, and don’t require...
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“Every time a bell rings……..”
Sometimes, just to torture myself, I watch excerpts from Bill O’Reilly’s show on Fox. I have to admit that I often find him amusing and entertaining (he certainly doesn’t qualify as any kind of...
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Living in the Bubble
Yesterday was “haircut” day. Every 3 to 4 weeks I have to head for the local barber shop and ask the guy to try and make my aging head look somewhat presentable. A daunting task, but he usually does...
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$1.15 Worth of Insanity
Balanced rock with shoes, near Lee's Ferry, Az This last trip west was, unfortunately, cut short by about 3 days. We arrived back in NY last Tuesday instead of last Friday. Why? Basically because of...
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The Perfect Storm
As the heat returns to western NY over the next week or so, I offer up some not – so – cool facts: For the United States, 2012 has so far been the warmest on record (going back to 1895). More than...
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The Return to Silly Season
Actually, it never ended. We just went from election cycle silliness to post-election cycle silliness. No breaks, no timeout. No rest from all the talking heads saying or reporting on silly stuff....
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What’s a “Nittany”?
“What’s a ‘Nittany’”? So much for the nice, quiet Saturday afternoon of college football. The last day of meteorological summer. The first full day of the new season. Just sitting there switching...
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“It’s Just a Rock”
I find it incredible that stupid people who do stupid things seem compelled to tell the rest of us – in the most public way possible – that they are, in fact, dumber than dumb. It’s like they’re...
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Making a Flap, or Much Ado About Nothing and Everything
Two days ago, while trying to read the Sunday paper, I was distracted by a pair of extremely irritated geese. Honking loudly, and “goose-stepping” around the neighborhood, they were apparently trying...
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The Peacock Incident
Even with all of the bizarrely strange things going on in the world today (the shooting down of a commercial airliner over Ukraine, another ground war in Gaza, the immigration crisis on the Texas...
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Upon Further Review……..
If you’re in the northeastern U. S. right now, these lines in the sand could probably be replaced (mentally) by “lines in the snow”. We’ve got lots and lots of the fluffy white stuff on the ground...
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“Oh, the Humanity”
ther If you want to see people do crazy things, visit the Grand Canyon. It seems to be a magnet for folks who either have a screw loose or are suffering from suicidal tendencies. Like these folks....
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Heaven help us, Silly Season is Back
Windstorm near Great Salt Lake, Utah Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind....
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Upon Further Review……..
If you’re in the northeastern U. S. right now, these lines in the sand could probably be replaced (mentally) by “lines in the snow”. We’ve got lots and lots of the fluffy white stuff on the ground...
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“Oh, the Humanity”
ther If you want to see people do crazy things, visit the Grand Canyon. It seems to be a magnet for folks who either have a screw loose or are suffering from suicidal tendencies. Like these folks....
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Heaven help us, Silly Season is Back
Windstorm near Great Salt Lake, Utah Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind....
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