Two Gents' Worth
November 22, 2024
Civil Society
There is little good to be said about the Covid-19 pandemic — it has ruined lives and permanently STAINED our country, in fact, the whole world. Yet if there is anything at all to profit from the deadly virus it is that some people are being drawn closer together. While all civility appears absent from…
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Civil Society
We were just about ready to write off this Summer of Our Coronavirus Discontent here in Ames — until the tornado sirens went off this past Tuesday night. Up to then, our stay here in the heartland had been quiet, if not somewhat boring. After all, the coronavirus had forced the shutdown or cancellation of…
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For a ten-year old boy growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, waiting for the Fourth of July was almost as painful as waiting for Christmas Day. I can still feel the rivers of sweat rolling down my back, days before the Fourth, as I surreptitiously crept into our darkened garage and searched until I found…
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Civil Society
The Fourth of July dawned bright and beautiful in our lovely old university town of Ames, Iowa, this morning. And then nothing went as it should have. The street in front of City Hall was empty this morning. Hundreds of people — if not thousands — did not line up at 8:30, as they usually…
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