Two Gents' Worth
April 29, 2025
Donald Trump
So Colin Kaepernick — the San Francisco 49ers quarterback who makes no one forget the likes of Joe Montana, Steve Young or John Brodie — has decided to throw even more fuel on the fire he ignited a few days ago when he remained seated during the playing of the national anthem before a football…
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Much of today’s news is about optics – what looks good and what looks bad, how it is spun and how the public sees it. The expanding revelations over the price run-up of EpiPens are candy land. Here is a mid-sized generic drug company, Mylan, suddenly finding itself in possession of a golden egg and…
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By Bud Elliott [Editor’s Note: Since this article was published in April of 2015, Jose Ramirez has won five more bouts. His record is now 18-0-0 with 13 knockouts. His next fight will be in December at the Save Mart Center] Late one sweltering summer afternoon not that many years ago, some neighborhood kids walked home after…
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Fresno
Oh, my. Can anyone — ANYONE — tell me why the California State Senate has refused to let voters decide whether to keep going on, and off, Daylight Saving Time? The Senate’s vote this week nixed a bill that would have placed a measure on the ballot, asking us to decide whether to dump our…
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In the world of peeves there are major ones and minor ones. This is a minor one. How come we don’t say “you’re welcome” any more? For instance: You have just bought a $1,630.00 mattress. The salesman processes your credit card, hands you the thing to sign, then gives you a receipt for the purchase…
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Fresno
By Bud Elliott On a white hot August afternoon, farm kids gather in the cool glare of an overhead lamp at King’s Boxing Club in Avenal. They come for the boxing lessons and a cold drink of water and to escape from the fields as did Jose Ramirez, their role model and mentor. Now considered…
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Pop Culture
Okay, this is the first, and I hope only, comment I’m going to make about that mess of an American athlete, Ryan Lochte. Thank goodness there was a video recording of what really happened at that little Brazilian gas station. Without it, Lochte and his fellow travelers might have gotten away with the lie about…
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The tussle at Hoover High School between a Fresno Police officer and a 16-year old student who was caught crossing a busy street against the traffic signal reminds us that America is a nation of laws and most of those laws are on the books for good reason. It’s also a good opportunity to refresh…
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Books
Peggy Noonan is widely and justifiably known for her brilliant series of columns in the Wall Street Journal. She has been writing these columns for the past 15 years, and regular readers have found them to be elegantly written, well thought-out and extraordinarily clear in their messages. Now Noonan has compiled the “best” of her…
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Announcements
Today we are pleased to introduce the second of our authors, Bud Elliott. After a nearly fifty-year career in broadcast journalism, Bud Elliott retired from the anchor desk at KSEE-TV in May of 2014. Beginning as an after-school disc jockey at a small rock and roll radio station 1965 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Bud’s career has…
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