End of the road
Date: 11/19/2009
By:
Bob Lancaster
One of you readers sent in a question that's beyond my ken, so I passed it along to the sage Assmunch, who's always game for queries, however difficult, unless it's a put-up job by one of these tea-bagger phonys.
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Bread line
Date: 11/12/2009
By:
Bob Lancaster
On the same day last week that unemployment went over 10 percent, we had our first bread line at the little community center here.
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Sluice this
Date: 10/22/2009
By:
Bob Lancaster
I've been writing newspaper columns for 44 years, and it was recently pointed out to me that the word "sluice" has never appeared in a single one of them.
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Spew
Date: 10/15/2009
By:
Bob Lancaster
It's said that you can't pluck a flower without troubling a star.
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Lists
Date: 9/24/2009
By:
Bob Lancaster
Opinion writing in this era of the short attention span is mostly an exercise in list-making.
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Pencils with hats
Date: 9/16/2009
By:
Bob Lancaster
God banished us from Eden for cause, and one condition of our exile was that we had to work. We had to earn our bread by the sweat of our brow. That meant chopping cotton or chasing down and whomping woolly mammoths. For the televangelist it means having to fly dangerous missions into darkest Africa to check on his diamond mines. It's not supposed to be easy, in other words. It's supposed to be hard and unpleasant because it's punishment. But at the risk of misdemeanor blasphemy, I'm always on the lookout for tips and tricks and shortcuts to make my own work easier.
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