Pre-television entertainment

Time magazine this week reported the deaths of Lew Anderson, who played Clarabell the Clown on TV’s The Howdy Doody Show, back in the 50s, and Frankie Thomas, star of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, from the same era.
Yes, children, they did have television in the 1950s, and I was there to watch it. Ouch. It [...]

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Poems for my 5-year-old

I was sorting through some old, old files today and came across some poems I wrote back then. Two little ditties were inspired by my son, who was 5 years old at the time:
Temper Tantrums
I made him mad the other day.
Things got a little thick.
He locked me out and hung a sign:
“I hate you, Mom. [...]

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Opposition to ‘The DaVinci Code’

I have only one thing to say to those getting bent out of shape over The DaVinci Code (both the novel and the movie):
People, it’s fiction!

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Bush talks about illegal immigration

President Bush just finished addressing the nation from the Oval Office, having been driven to it by the current cacophony over illegal immigration into the U.S.
He didn’t say much of anything new, repeating his old and well-known position on enforcement and a guest worker program, and a comprehensive bill including both.
He started by talking about [...]

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