my two scents worth
My Two Scents Worth
This is a special notice to men who have neglected to get their main squeeze a neat-o Christmas gift. The harvest is complete and a plentiful stock of powerful fortune and good luck and etc., is a...
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My Two Scents Worth
This is a special notice to men who have neglected to get their main squeeze a neat-o Christmas gift. The harvest is complete and a plentiful stock of powerful fortune and good luck and etc., is a...
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You have just about time enough to turn around twice…and Christmas 2008 will be spoken of in the past tense. I guarantee it. Daughter Shannon Bishop e-mailed (can “e-mail” be verbed?) Gracie and o...
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A week ago Wednesday was Nov. 19. It also marked my big Seven-Niner Birthday. Members of the family and Bro. Jim and his good wife Becky presented me with gifts and cards, as well as condolences o...
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In last week’s column about Sadie Hawkins Day, I got so wrapped up in my yarn about Daisy Mae and Li’l Abner and grandson Sean McBroom, I forgot to tell you how-come I had all that stuff on my min...
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Sadie Hawkins Day, yes. To know Sadie Hawkins is to be over the age of, say, 40. Or maybe you just didn’t read newspaper comic strips when you were a kid. Sadie Hawkins was a character in a comic ...
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by Dick Mayo
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The flow of work in Your TIMES office dictates that I write these columns early; too early to know the results of Tuesday’s presidential election. One thing, however, is known. John McCain is the ...
My Two Scents Worth
by Dick Mayo
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In the Aug. 28 column, we investigated how some things remain the same through all the years, while other things, like politics, move in cycles and reinvent themselves. In my concentration on Dad's...
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Democratic opposition to seating Burris cracks (AP)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(R), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi(L) addressing reporters on Capitol Hill on January 5, 2009 in Washington, DC. The new US Congress was convening Tuesday at the dawn of an era of dominance for Barack Obama's Democrats in Washington with lawmakers consumed by the worst economic crisis in generations.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)AP - Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois, but maybe not much longer.


Wed Jan 07 05:43:19 -0600 2009
Experts: Crosswinds a factor in Denver air crash (AP)

Workers move the wreckage of Continental Airlines flight 1404 to a site outside a Continental hangar at Denver International Airport in Denver on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009 from the ravine where it crash landed on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008. Aviation safety experts said Tuesday, Jan. 6, strong crosswinds likely were a factor in an accident last month that sent a Continental Airlines jet into a bone-jarring veer off a Denver runway and across open, snowy fields before it came to a halt and caught fire. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)AP - It was very windy when a Continental Airlines jet was destroyed while trying to take off in Denver last month, leading aviation safety experts to cite crosswinds as a likely factor in the accident.


Wed Jan 07 02:17:38 -0600 2009
Boy's 1999 disappearance raises questions, regrets (AP)

This age progression image provided by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children shows a simulation of what Adam Herrman might look like at the age of 21. No one claims to know what happened that summer in 1999 when 11-year-old Adam disappeared from the Towanda mobile home park where he lived with his adoptive parents. But the biggest mystery may be why no one reported him missing until nearly a decade later. (AP Photo/The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children via The Wichita Eagle)AP - No one claims to know what happened that summer in 1999 when 11-year-old Adam Herrman disappeared from the mobile home park where he lived with his adoptive parents.


Wed Jan 07 03:30:13 -0600 2009