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People have been spying on people since the biblical times. I wonder why we are so surprised when a country, or a company detects that an individual or a group of individuals are soliciting information for another country or company. Every country does it to someone. We are in the information age and information can [...] Continue reading Spying The “D” in D-day actually meant nothing. Just a letter designator for the invasion of France during World War Two. In so many ways it could have stood for death. Ten thousand combat casualties, 1500 Americans killed in Action. 27 hundred Britons, 500 Canadians. The anniversary of D-day was yesterday. June 6th, 1944. Ten years [...] Continue reading D-Day Dateline: Arizona Misnomers about Arizona: 1. It’s warm. I arrived into Arizona from New Mexico and it was 32º and snowing. Granted I was at 6-thousand feet, but this is ARIZONA. Loosely translated as “Arid-Zone”, meaning dry, desert, presumable warm etc. 2. It’s warm. A few hours later I’m in Phoenix. 56º. When I left [...] Continue reading Arizona I have not read her book (since it comes out today) and I may not, but I’ll think about it and eventually when somebody loans me a copy I will peruse it. But as yet, I’m not ready to fork over the dough to buy a copy of a “tell some, spin some and hold [...] Continue reading Palin’s Prophecy and Politics 2009 is almost over and I have yet to write that this year is the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River. To be factual he didn’t really discover it. Native people had been living near it since about 4000 BC, so old Henry only uncovered the river for the Dutch East [...] Continue reading The Hudson River Today is an anniversary. Not a pleasant one. It is a tragic memory now known forever as NINE ELEVEN. I was a practicing journalist in New York City in 2001. I had just rented a small pied-a-terre along the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. I was standing on a balcony overlooking the river [...] Continue reading Nine Eleven A number of years ago Raritan, New Jersey passed a law where it was illegal to utter profanity in public or to be rude to your neighbor and even to insult people. I don’t know if the law is still on the books, but I suppose it was more of a social statement than something [...] Continue reading Courtesy |
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Headlines and Head-shaking
Sometimes we all should look around our great nation and ask ourselves, “what have we become.” I look at the headlines from all over the world on a daily basis and all too often I come away shaking my head in disappointment over the human condition. I know I shouldn’t, but I do. For instance: [...]
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