Category Archives: Law and our society!

Truth, Justice and the American Way

Advertising is persuasive.  Whether it’s called propaganda, mind control, brainwashing, menticide or thought reform, it all adds up to pretty much the same thing.  If you want someone else to believe in something, to use your product or to buy … Continue reading

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Celebrate, Libate and Irritate

When you’re late for a party, walk in and find everyone well on his or her way to being drunk, it’s not much fun.  It’s still fun for them, but being sober when everyone else is drinking is a disadvantage.  … Continue reading

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Les Miserable, North Carolina Style!

In a sinister Dallas McKinnon voice (Courageous Cat, Gumby and Archie) comes the words, “This is the scene of the crime!”  The crime?  Stolen Pop Tarts!  The culprit?  A mother’s son!  In a bizarre world, nothing can surprise us now … Continue reading

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O.K. I’m a Blatant Heterosexual!

I’m waiting for the guy who walks into the party and exclaims, “O.K.  I don’t care who it offends, but I’m heterosexual!”  Will anybody care?  Probably not.  Perhaps it will invoke a few chuckles, maybe a couple of raised eyebrows, … Continue reading

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Beantown, Brothers and the Bomb!

Of all the sports venues in which I participated as an athlete or spectator over the years, I never worried about a bomb.  It is a career that spans over 45 years and now I visit “roadside” outdoor sports venues … Continue reading

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Have Gun, Will Travel

Annie Get Your Gun is an American staple.  It is a musical play loosely based on the female American sharpshooter Annie Oakley and although Annie could beat Frank in the final shooting contest, she throws the event in order to … Continue reading

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Another Regulatory Numbskull

It’s no secret that Lance Armstrong is in love with himself.  He is also an incredible athlete.  As a result, Lance Armstrong is famous and infamous, notorious and heroic, argumentative and peaceful, and generous, but conniving.  He is a hero … Continue reading

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NCAA – The New King of Cartoons

The NCAA did it again!  They defied everything that is near and dear to the United States of America by claiming its decisions cannot be appealed.  Maybe you agree with the Paterno family, maybe you don’t, but what this ruling … Continue reading

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Bully for you!

There’s a bully for you, a bully for me, and you and I are a bully for someone else.  Bullying is getting a lot of attention these days, so much so, I feeling a little bullied about it. 

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And Justice For All!

There’s an age-old adage in football that goes  “What we do here, what we say here, stays here when we leave here.”  The sunny side of this old saw makes perfect sense, as players are

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