Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
Civil Society
Jack Schwartz celebrated a birthday on Saturday – 102 years old. So, they threw him a little party – The Sequoia Woodturners Club of Central California, a collection of mostly senior citizens who love to repurpose beautiful chunks of dead trees into objets d’art — fruit bowls and weed pots (flower pots) and rolling pins…
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Fresno
The mess that is the Fulton Mall’s ongoing deconstruction — converting it back to a vehicle-welcoming Fulton Street — shows no sign of coming to an end. What makes that interesting is that, back in February, the Fresno Bee ran a piece under the headline, “Fresno’s painful remake of Fulton Street should be done in…
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So here we are, after another incredibly bad week in the incredibly bad presidency of Donald Trump, and the question really has become: How much longer will Trump be allowed to occupy the Oval Office? To review this week that was: On Monday came word that Trump had revealed highly classified information to two Russian…
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Donald Trump
As a public service — just in case you haven’t been able to keep up with Donald Trump in the past few days — here’s a recap of what our current president has been up to. He fired FBI Director James Comey, who was leading his agency’s investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Trump’s…
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Well, not my uncle, exactly – everybody’s uncle. Uncle Harry. It’s two weeks since they shut down Uncle Harry’s New York Bagelry in Fig Garden Village. The terse one-page letter posted on a window announcing the abrupt closure has been pulled down and covered over with butcher paper. Big plans are afoot for the…
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Donald Trump
Well, well. It turns out that Hillary Clinton has learned nothing — absolutely nothing — about her loss to Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election. How else to explain her ludicrous remarks today that she was on her way to winning until a combination of FBI Director James Comey’s letter revealing a new investigation…
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