May 2012

Ever feel like you want to break the law? Do something illegal, maybe just for the adventure of it? To see what it’s like to get away with something? We all have that tiny piece of imp inside us who’d love to do it just once. Pull off a crime and not get caught at [...]

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Well, except I won’t. Other than that, it’ll be the same as most of you. It all began in 1961, when I was twelve years old. My first job was as a newspaper carrier in Lansing, Michigan for the Detroit News. The State Journal, (now the Lansing State Journal), was the main newspaper. The Detroit [...]

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Those words are the title of a couple movies, some songs, a book and a town in Oklahoma. Elite company, you might say. It’s also the name of a medically related condition caused by diabetes, if we fall back to using slang, with which I’ve been lucky enough to be afflicted. Oh, joy. Looking deeper, [...]

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Sometimes finding a topic for a blog post is as easy as falling off a log, although I’ll admit that’s a mere guess. I’ve never fallen off a log. A bar stool, yes, but not a log. Maybe, if they’d served booze out in the woods, it might’ve happened. However, even then I had my [...]

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When I was a kid, there was an older teen who lived on our block. He just loved torturing snakes. He’d catch garter snakes and slowly stretch them out until they were torn in half. Sometimes he’d play “crack the whip”, holding the snake by the tail and acting as if he was pitching a [...]

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“Gee, Bill, I hate to do it, but I really have to ask. Do you ever write about anything people will just find humorous?” What a great question! Of course I do. As an example, everyone knows I’m a dog lover. In some situations, (mine, for example), “dog lover” is a synonym for “cat hater”. [...]

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Some people rest on ‘em. Some don’t have any. Others have ‘em, but can’t be comfortable using ‘em as a perch. In most cases that phrase is applied to someone famous. To a very large extent, the group is comprised of athletes, politicians, actors and noteworthy business people. The idea behind the expression is a [...]

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There was really no such thing as terrorists when I was growing up, or even for the largest part of my adult years, actually. The closest thing I recall is a group of thugs known as the SLA, Symbionese Liberation Army. Oddly enough, there’s a tremendous similarity between the SLA and a well known group [...]

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He has one drink left in his canteen. He offers it to someone who stopped to see if he was okay. How’s that for selflessness? What follows is an e-mail from a new blog subscriber talking about someone else I’m led to believe will also soon subscribe. It’s edited only for punctuation and subscriber privacy. [...]

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