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    Memorial Day 2007

    Thanks for the post. I just spent the day teaching a bunch of kids about Memorial Day. More than half didn't have any idea what the day was for. Believe me, by the end of the lesson they did. I think one of the reason we have become so devisive as a nation is that we have commericalized...
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    Your Top 10 TV Shows

    1. Daily Show 2. Colbert Report 3. Boxing 4. Scrubs 5. My Name is Earl 6. Bob Newhart 7. Carol Burnett Show 8. Dick Van Dyke 9. Taxi 10. 3rd Rock From The Sun
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    Elected Position

    Have been involved in helping others run for office several times. It's only as dirty as you want it to be. Too many good people avoid running because it can get dirty and as a result we get what we fear. Personally, I have a deep respect for those who are willing to put their money where their...
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    Memorial Day music

    Each year, I teach my students about Memorial Day and I try to include some music that tries to get the idea across without being maudlin. For the last couple of years I have included The Sands of Iwo Jima by Drive By Truckers. I know it's late but are there other songs that people know of that...
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    Why do I hate the 1970s so much?

    Ok, here's one from the 70's that if you don't like I see no hope: Carol Burnett and Tim Conway. Oh, what the heck, Bob Newhart, too.
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    the retro episodes of shows

    The absolute worst was a Dick Van Dyke episode in which Rob was sent back to the 1890s. It's my favorite tv show but even the cast cringed at that one.
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    Top 10 Comic Actors of All Time

    Listening to the early You Bet Your Life radio shows, I was amazed to find myself laughing out loud. I like Jack Benny and Bob Hope, but taint no one as quick as Groucho.
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    What Are You Reading

    Just finished Up Front by Bill Mauldin. If you want to know what the regular GI thought in WWII, you could do worse than read this. Plus it's short (228 pages). Plus his cartoons are wonderfully sardonic.
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    The Human Mind

    Read somewhere that we like to think of ourselves as a single entity. We see our mind as being driven by a single master, sort of like a person in front of a complicated series of dials and switches. I can't remember the writer but he was eminently respected. He said our brain is much more like...
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    Why do I hate the 1970s so much?

    Absolutely!
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    Why do I hate the 1970s so much?

    Thanks to Mr. Powers, et al, I started to think of what I really did learn from the 70s. A short list: 1) It's probably a good idea to spend at least one day a year thinking about the earth. 2) Even a President should really have to obey the law. Vice President, too. 3) Dancing funny...
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    VE Day announcement

    Was just listening to a news report from VE Day and learned something new (at least new to me). VE Day was announced today, May 7 (in 1945), but it wasn't supposed to have been. Apparently, a reporter by the name of Kennedy somehow got the information that Germany had surrendered through the...
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    A few books on the 1920s

    The 20s were what first attracted me to history. I was so tired of wars and straight politics and then to read Only Yesterday and to see how diverse history could be was wonderful. I think that book and Glory and the Dream by Manchester (covering 1932-1972) helped me to see that history really...
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    Golden Era Adventurers, Explorers and Heroes...

    Yes! Thanks. That's been driving me crazy. :D
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    Why do I hate the 1970s so much?

    I guess my problem is choosing a particular time frame as a whipping boy. I teach in a jail and the stories I hear about today make offering pot to child tame (no, I'm not excusing it, just bare with me). In the 30's and 40's children were beaten and neglected in the name of discipline. In the...
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    Woulda hadda listened

    So which show do you think best defines each of the decades 1930-50? Which ones would you have to listen to if you were magically transported back. For me, 1930: Amos and Andy, 1940: Fibber, 1950: You Bet Your Life. How about it?
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    How Did You Discover Old Time Radio?

    Going to college. Too poor to have a tv. Every Sunday some station put on these shows in Bellingham, Washington. I had heard them before but it was then that I finally understood why people used to look forward to their favorite shows.
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    WomenInWWII.com

    My grandmother was a riverter, too. Building ships in San Francisco, but just the opposite. She always seems a bit embarrassed by it. Talked to her once but she just didn't want to say much. It's not like she is too "lady-like" to want to admit it. [huh]
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    The Great MacArthur Debate/Discussion

    Interesting. I think insecurity is often hidden by adamant certainty. The most confident men seem to be able to be challenged without feeling threatened. And I always sort of felt that Mac was trying to live up to his father's rep and even having surpassed it he never felt himself up to snuff.
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    Golden Era Adventurers, Explorers and Heroes...

    That husband and wife team that flew throughout Africa. Argh, what were their names?

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