Category Archives: 2018
The Daily Dose – November 4, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… WHO HAD NINE MONTHS IN THE POOL?: In fairness to President Trump – President Trump! – none of the three people indicted in the Mueller investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – November 6, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… OUR COUNTRY IS DYING: Usually after the latest mass shooting we trot out our suitably witless remark about cutting and pasting the previous mass shooting column, changing only the location and the number of … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – November 7, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… ANCHORS AWEIGH: Last week the Navy released its reports on collisions involving the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John McCain. Both suffered catastrophic collisions this past summer, the Fitzgerald off the southern coast of … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – November 8, 2017
The Daily Dose By Gaylon Kent America’s Funniest Guy Notes from around the Human Experience… UH, YEAH, THIS IS BREAKING NEWS: Last week the United States carried out two airstrikes in Somalia in an effort to kill senior ISIS leaders. … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – Veterans Day, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… TEN HUT!: You know, honestly, we cannot remember Veterans Day being the big deal it is today while growing up. And we come from a family of many veterans. 9/11 changed that, of course, … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – November 12, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… ELECTION DAY…VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN: We live in a small town. It has a pretty good diner, a bar, a small grocery store and no stop lights. Usual small town stuff. And we also … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – November 13, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME: Arguing about who should and should not be in baseball’s Hall of Fame used to be great fun, and there was a time when the ten people being … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – November 14, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… CAPSULE BOOK REVIEW: Peter the Great: His Life and Times By Robert K. Massie: For most of the biographies we’ve read over the years we had at least a passing acquaintance with the subject. Not … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – November 15, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… WHEN IT’S TIME TO WRITE, IT’S TIME TO WRITE: As noted here before, usually we have an idea for a column before we sit down to write. Today we didn’t, so we dove in … Continue reading
The Daily Dose – November 18, 2017
Notes from around the Human Experience… THE WEEK IN TRUMP: When President Trump – President Trump! – took office our only real hope for substantive governing was the hope a GOP president with a long career in business would have … Continue reading