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From the Other Side: Goodbye, Davy Jones
The surprise death of Davy Jones last week left baby-boomers and some beyond that generation, like me, a little depressed. The former Monkee was only 66. Now, when I was 20 years old, 66 seemed anc...
Mar 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 59 59 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Every More Frightening
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s ...
Mar 02, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Life Signs
We will be nearly finished, I think, when we stop understanding the old pull toward green things and living things, toward dirt and rain and heat and what they spawn. – John Graves, “Goodbye To A R...
Feb 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 44 44 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: No Rights
The United States Congress has authorized what some claim will mean unmanned drone aircraft to fly over U.S. skies, possibly as many as 30,000 by the year 2020. These would be available to federal,...
Feb 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 29 29 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kudos & Kvetch: Tell us what you want ... what you really, really want
By JEAN L. KAESS I’ve been asked why I haven’t been writing columns lately. The answer is simple. I haven’t had anything to say. It is time to change that. Various recent situations have made me wa...
Feb 06, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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Mackrophone: When is a recruit not a recruit? Good question
By MACK SPENCER Private schools recruit. This should be no secret to anybody. Private schools don’t have the built-in advantage of public schools to expect the enrollment of any school-aged child i...
Feb 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 33 33 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Once More, With Feeling
And another dadgum thing, while I’m on my high horse. What’s going on with the various so-called developments on the horizon, in Garden City and across the bayou from Parc sur la Teche? Anyone? The...
Feb 03, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: What Else Is Eating At Me
It’s time to get some things off my chest, and it ain’t going to be pleasant for either of us, I’m afraid. After several kind and helpful replies to last week’s column, “How It Happened,” I decided...
Feb 01, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 39 39 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: How it Happened
By ROGER EMILE STOUFF I was mourning my seemingly endless inability to write anything but political columns lately, and then only once a week or so, when I stumbled upon the root of my problem. I g...
Jan 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 12 12 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Dimwits, Et. Al.
The dimwits in Washington keep making it more and more difficult for you and I to make an honest living. Here we go, gas is going up because—you guessed it—Iran’s acting like a big buffoon AND the ...
Jan 20, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: January
January, and I can’t complain too much about the weather, though those may be famous last words. The worst may yet be ahead of us, but so far, this has been a pretty tolerable winter. I have been m...
Jan 13, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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From the Other Side: Tidbits
Sometimes, the news is just appalling enough it stands for itself, which is good, because I don’t know that I feel like writing today! Here’s a great place to start: “Demobilized soldiers will be a...
Jan 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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