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I decided to stop writing for the Reader Weekly when Yes or No!  No Ifs, Ands, or Buts! was bumped.  I first thought OK, the editor has his reasons, but then I thought the article was too timely to wait a week.  Besides, if I'm retired why do I have to keep showing up for work, that is, meet a deadline?

I posted Yes or No!  No Ifs, Ands, or Buts! on my blog.  The downside is that instead of over 151 fans reading each article, I may only get three or four.  I hope you will encourage your friends to visit my blog.  If readership increases, I may go to writing something every two or three days to writing at least one item a day.

Recent Reader Weekly articles uploaded include:

Straight talk on taxes, October 23, 2008
Complain not that taxes are too high or too low.  Ask yourself and politicians if taxes are appropriate for what needs to be done.

Politics makea for strange contradictions, October 9, 2008
Politics is really shades of gray. Our putting politics in black and white often leads to contradictions.

Once upon a lake, September 25, 2008
Once upon a time there was a city on a lake founded by French fur traders.  They called it Toulouse and it grew to a regional center over the centuries.

Into the maw of the American health care system, September 11, 2008
"Finest health care in the world"?  You judge.  My recent visits to the emergency room.

What have you done for your education recently? September 4, 2008
Are you prepared to make informed decisions in November?

Too bad the plural of panda isn’t pander…, August 28, 2008
Government of the pandered,  by the panderers, and for the pampered

Gas crisis?  What gas crisis? August 14, 2008
You wouldn’t know there is a gas crisis if you drove any distance.

You can speak foreign languages, July 31, 2008
You know more than you think you do.  Here's a small sample of all the foreign words and phrases you know.

Latest picture is "Little boats and big ships", Duluth, Minnesota.  You can see more of my pictures on Flickr.

Homonym Homilies - Examples of why it is sure difficult to be a good speller (Sept. 16, 2008)  One of these days I'll change this to Absurd Words.


Missing articles added

Talking about walking about, January 25, 2001
Walking saves energy, but it is one of the last things encouraged with tax dollars.

The paradoxes of tax cuts, April 10, 2003
We want taxes cut but we don't want services cut, except for other people.

It's a new year, time to get out of that proverbial box, January 4, 2001
Let's get some innovation, new thinking going in politics and governance.

Ebenezer Scrooge lives on, December 21, 2000
Ebenezer Scrooge lives on in many forms with no hope of redemption.  There is the Scrooge who dislikes the “commercialization” of Christmas, the Scrooge who thinks Christmas celebrations are exclusive, and the Scrooge who thinks any solstice celebration is sacrilegious.

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