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Seems simple enough, doesn’t it? You don’t even need aviation experience and you know what that means. That clearance, delivered by a youngster to a commercial aircraft, has unleashed a storm of complaint across the country.
Days ago, an Air Traffic Controller at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, brought his young [...]

Wow…there’s one of those words. “Reconcile”. Many uses. It usually brings my checkbook to mind, and the arduous monthly task of “reconciling” the account. For obsessive-compulsives like me it can be heart wrenching. It’s got to match to the penny. The second thing that pops into my mind is [...]

The latest act by another disenfranchised citizen has come in the form of a small plane being crashed into the Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas. The resultant fire spread quickly through the entire building and it is a miracle that only one person inside was killed. Sadly, he was a well-liked [...]

Hopefully, not you, if you’re a patient at the Steere Nursing Home in Providence, Rhode Island. I’m not talking about the prestigious award given to actors and actresses of high rank. I’m talking about a different Oscar. Oscar the Death Cat.
For quite some time Oscar has held the fascination of doctors and [...]

Anyone remember Thurston Howell III from Gilligan’s Island? Jim Backus was the actor, I believe, and much like our President he spoke with his chin elevated and with that elegant, aristocratic drawl that is so often used to mock the dialect of the inexplicably wealthy. Backus’ character and his wife, were the wealthy [...]

As a young musician playing in a band I remember being told that “less is more”. In other words, it wasn’t the quantity, but the quality of what you were playing that was important. I’m sure there are other analogies, but generally speaking, from a mathematical standpoint, less can’t be more, or it [...]

One hand giveth, the other taketh away. That’s how I’m feeling after days of euphoria following the victory of Scott Brown over Martha Coakley in the Massachusetts special election. A stunning upset that finally tells the world, or more importantly, the Obama administration, that the Tea Party movement is not imaginary. It’s [...]

Probably more than you think. I’m not talking about that popular parcel delivery service with the brown trucks that park in the middle of the road, I’m talking Scott Brown of Massachusetts who is the talk of the country, and for good reason.
The coveted U.S. Senate seat left vacant after the passing of Ted [...]

“Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a damn!” Yes, and in this rendition of the timeless classic, “Scarlett” is code for about seventy percent of the country and it is our President making the strident exclamation. “Blunder Road” might be the title of the musical analogy for the Obama Team.
The handling of the terror-attempt [...]

You’re probably thinking this is a confession-type piece, finally coming clean about my foot deformity, but no, that would have been spelled “toes”. This is a reflection-type piece, in keeping with the New Year, as sometimes it is worth a glance back, even while considering the future.
Our local newspaper, The Cabinet, ran a photo [...]