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NEXT ANGRY MAN UP IN THE WHITE HOUSE

December 6, 2016 by

Preparing the angry White House. How to tell if an angry man moves into an angry White House? It’s not because so many edited pictures show him mouthing either “F” or a “U.” That’s simply bad journalism, a smear, sour grapes. No one carries around a resting “F” face followed by a resting “U” face. […]

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BABY BOOMER ANTHOLOGY, A LIFE IN COMMON

May 20, 2016 by

Every family has a man with so much backbone you’d think he has two of them. Such a man might have been injured on the job and took up another line of work. Maybe that man was a logger who broke his back in the woods and took up ranching. His biggest regret was missing […]

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IS COLLEGE EDUCATION A TRUST FACTOR?

February 17, 2016 by

Do you trust people with more college education than you? The old rule was get a college education and get a good job. A college degree opened doors. A high school diploma used to be the ticket to success. What changed? Boomers used to work high school education level jobs during their summer college break. […]

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KING OF THE HILL IN NORTH BEND, OREGON

January 9, 2016 by

People know the place when you say you’re from North Bend. Ask someone where there from and you expect one answer, one place. Then you get this: “I grew up all over the place.” Hear that and know you’ve got someone ashamed of where they’re from. They know the name of their town, they just […]

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL COMPARED TO SINGERS

January 4, 2016 by

College football feels like singers, but which ones? College football has one steadfast rule when comparing teams: you can’t compare eras. You need to compare teams and their times instead of one decade to the next. But you can compare college football to lady singers of the same era. This era comparison includes Beyonce, Adele, […]

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OUR OREGON TOWN TO YOURS

October 2, 2015 by

Not Much Happens In Our Town And That’s How We Like It. Our Oregon Town Likes It Too. Our Town opened in 1938, portraying the lives and events of a small town in New Hampshire from 1901-1913. The dates are important. Our Town shows life before WWII. Thornton Wilder had WWI and The Great Depression […]

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL 2015: OHIO STATE vs THE FIELD

September 9, 2015 by

Only one group gets to knock the defending national champion in big school college football. Alabama stays down after the Ohio State Buckeyes rolled them in last year’s semi-final at the New Orleans Super Dome. Florida State, the defending champ in 2014, got run out of the Rose Bowl. No word from them. That leaves […]

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THE EDUCATION OF LEBRON JAMES

August 18, 2015 by

How LeBron James Saves Money By Spending On Education. The richest people in the world land on a list. Do they look at their ranking and figure out ways to move up? Or are they happy where they are and the things they spend on? If they’re not spending a fortune the way LeBron James […]

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NPR AMERICAN HISTORY FAILS

July 31, 2015 by

Is There A Future For American History? NPR Says Maybe. A history joke: “This is George Washington’s Ax, the one he used to chop down the cherry tree. The head’s been replaced five time, the handle eight, but it represents the same space.” After you stop laughing you’ll see the history problem: the ax isn’t […]

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PICKING UP CO-EDS 70’S STYLE

May 22, 2015 by

Which One Was You? Before social media, meeting co-eds at college meant leaving the basement. Starbucks moved into the space on the opposite end of the block from the U of O bookstore. It the seventies it was a college bar, the best place on the street for 21 and over students. And everyone else. […]

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