Two Gents' Worth
May 14, 2024
Politics
Once in a great while, when the average citizen is able (indeed, forced) to step back from the rim of history to reassess nature’s momentums, when meaningful course corrections are absolutely required, it is within these moments that history flows in a new direction. When the amplitude of public rectitude can no longer be bought…
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We have flattened the curve and weathered the storm. The end is in sight. Sadly, many have died while the rest of us reassess the future, which will be indelibly altered. Much of the novelty of shopping at Costco on a Saturday afternoon was the liberal sampling the obscure new products which…
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Like an endless column of army ants, the lizards invade without compunction. They arrived early this summer and decided to stay. What good are they? Some fool allowed as how they eat mosquitoes. Huh! They are mosquitoes. With tails. There are experts who have long suspected that it’s the lizards; yes, the lizards that are…
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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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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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In a fit of appalling civil disobedience, a band of rebellious neighbors in a certain north Fresno neighborhood staged a block party late Saturday afternoon almost within sight of, and certainly within earshot of, not one but two city councilors. Dangerous, to be sure. Here it was lawlessness on a molecular scale — not as…
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There were roughly 750,000 weddings in America on that July evening, each special in its own way, but none finer than the one near Sedalia. On the rolling piedmont beneath the Rampart Range a few clicks south of Denver, where Cheyenne and Arapaho once married in much the same way, two souls became one as…
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