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Yes It’s True: Virus brings out best and worse in us
“There was a virus goin’ round, Paw caught it, and he died last spring… And Momma doesn’t seem to want to do much of anything.” — Bobbie Gentry, 1967, “Ode…
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Army Bob: An ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure
The “Spanish flu,” the world’s most deadly pandemic, infected some 40% of the world’s population and killed 20 to 50 million, 50 to 125 million today as a percentage. Spanish…
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Ranger Rick: Is closing bars, restaurants bad idea?
I understand the need to stop the spread of this virus, but closing bars and restaurants? How will people make a living in those service industries? It isn't like those…
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Yes It’s True: Kent State was the final act for the 1960s
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the sixth and final part of a series of columns examining why the 1960s decade of protest, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll ended so…
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Barry Hastings: Rounding up the usual suspects
A hundred and one years ago, an influenza pandemic killed 20 million people around the world, and infected 500 million. The first world war raged across Europe with no end…
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Army Bob: So the Dems are down to 2 old white men
Senator Mazie Hirono (D- HI) previously stated, “Old white men should just sit down and shut up.” OK, is she including Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders, the…
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Ranger Rick: Coronavirus just Trump Derangement?
The Corona Virus (CV) is among us! Oh no, anything but that! While no one likes to think they will contract the CV, we have experienced pandemics before — H1N1,…
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One Small Voice: The ‘rush’ of selling books on line
by Lynn Mandaville In the world of on-line book sales, get-rich-quick isn’t the key to success. Guaranteed success, in fact, is just like everywhere else in the world. It depends…
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Yes It’s True: Draft changes accelerated demise of ’60s
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the fifth in a six-part series about the quick collapse of the 1960s movement and culture, lifted from a never-published book, Breadcrusts." One of the…
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Basura: Thoughts on Death in Bonaire, not in Venice
“Life is short, and death is sure.” — Mr. Carson, in Downton Abbey, by Julian Fellows Mrs. B and I spent the month of February on Bonaire. It is an…