People of Color

I am old enough that non-whites were called Colored, and other things not even said in polite and not so polite company anymore.  Somewhere in the early to mid 1960’s most everyone learned that this was considered to be...

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Lucky Charms

See that Lucky Charms is adding marshmellow rainbows to their product.  Wonder what is going to happen to sales in the South and Midwest now that Lucky Charms has gone gay. Just Kidding – or am I?

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Deplorables Defined

I know that some Trump followers think they are cleaver by embracing the term “Deplorable” for themselves after Hillary Clinton referred to some Trump supporters as being deplorable.  I am not going to address the...

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Texas Execution Rates

Most people know that Texas has the highest rate of executions, both in real numbers and per capita, of any state in the United States. I have always thought that it was because Texans, as a group, were made up of people who were...

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So You Have a Degree

Why do people find it necessary to publicize unnecessary degree information.  For instance, I saw a TV program where a prosecutor had her name with the “J.D.” following her name.  For goodness sakes all graduates of...

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Traffic Merging

I know that it is a hard concept, but when there is a sign showing your lane is ending the proper action is to carefully merge into the next lane, yielding to traffic already in said lane.  It is not to speed up and force...

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If you build it – ehh

Caveat: This may be a little parochial for those readers (if there are any) not from Portland Oregon but I am sure while the specifics may be different they can apply to any municipality and their associated governments.   If...

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