Someone on Quoro.com (an excellent site for great posts) asked that question. Here’s the response I posted. When I was 8 years old, I woke up one day to discover my father was not home. I learned only that he…
American Life, General, Internet, Music, Religion
Michael Jackson / Lisa Presley “Wedding” Hoax
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Recently I came across one more of the thousands of online references to the wedding, in the Dominican Republic, of the late Michael Jackson to Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of the also late Elvis. That “wedding” – allegedly held almost 20…
General
Every Man Looks Fantastic In A Tux
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Last weekend, the wife and I attended a formal affair at Lincoln Center. I borrowed a tux from a friend – or at least from someone who has been a friend until now. Before I get into that, let me…
American Life, Culture, General, Internet, Language
Ding Dong, the “Which” is Dead
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Somebody, please call the Grammar Police and report there has been a murder. Actually, multiple murders. Hundreds of thousands of victims are lying all over the Internet. The victim is that valuable, essential, basic, explicit word known as “which.” The perp, who hides…
General
Have a Good Night of Sleep
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Money? Sex? Power? Only saints or idiots have not wanted them at one time or another. Yet, I doubt that any one of us has not, at least once, said, “I’d give anything for a good night’s sleep.” I was…
Culture, Family, General
I was drafted 60 years ago today
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My first day in the US Army began April 06, 1953, when I showed up at the induction center in Newark, NJ. I was drafted. I’d already been poked, prodded, examined and weighed a few weeks before during a physical…