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What About This . . .? 5.4.2017
By Wayne William Cipriano We’ve only lived here about 30 years. Our kids went to school here but we did not. And, even though this is by far the longest we have lived in any one place, we will always be newcomers. Even as newcomers, however, we have seen quite a few changes around here…
Read MoreWhat About This . . .? 4.27.2017
By Wayne William Cipriano It is not immigration, it is not off-shoring, it is automation that is a threat to those Americans who rely on so many industrial vocations. Have you stood in a long cashier’s line at a grocery store or some other large retailer and looked over at the automated checkout stations? Heard…
Read MoreWhat About This…? 4.20.2017
By Wayne William Cipriano My Mother bought a brand new VW Bug in 1967 for the full price of $1866.00 (taxes, radio, and undercoating included). I remember that so easily because in our entire family history my parents, my brother, and I have only purchased five new cars. The folks bought a 1962 Mercury (that…
Read MoreWhat About This…? 4.13.2017
By Wayne William Cipriano Whenever Rosalie is getting ready for a solo trip she spends quite a bit of time preparing meals for me that only require nuking in the microwave once they are thawed. These meals, usually chili, sandwiches, pizza, sloppy joes and the like, when added to a well-balanced program of cigar and…
Read MoreWhat About This…? 4.6.2017
By Wayne William Cipriano Ah, the simple pleasures of life. So often rising from mere conveniences which themselves may have sprung from necessities. Take water. You gotta have it. It used to be brought from somewhere nearby into the house. Youngsters bucked water and everyone used it sparingly. Water is heavy to tote. Then perhaps…
Read MoreWhat About This…? 3.30.2017
By Wayne William Cipriano It’s getting to be that time again, to pay those membership dues for the United States of America Club, you remember, income taxes? Whether you are a Full-Fledged Member (citizen), an Aspiring Member (in the naturalization process), an Associate Member (holding a Green Card), or even a non-member (refused or never…
Read MoreWhat About This…? 3.23.2017
By Wayne William Cipriano Why are the Democrats doing to Trump exactly what the Republicans did to Obama? Why oppose every single appointment, every single issue brought forward by Trump? Is it simply, as Rosalie so succinctly put it, because it worked? It is just as puerile and frustrating and yes, un-American when the Democrats…
Read MoreWhat About This…? 3.16.2017
By Wayne William Cipriano Like everyone, I’ve visited many different places with many different climates during my lifetime. Unlike a lot of people, however, I’ve lived for extended periods of time (a year or more) in many places as well. Places like Connecticut, New York, Washington, D.C., North and South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Texas,…
Read MoreWhat About This…? 3.9.2017
By Wayne William Cipriano Have you heard about the new – at least it was news to me – innovation of the Internet that provides research almost instantly by simply vocalizing a question? Of course I don’t know squat about it, beyond a television commercial for the device that I saw, but it was wildly…
Read MoreWhat About This…? 2.28.2017
By Wayne William Cipriano Mandatory public education supported by citizen-paid taxes is the most important factor in a democratic republic – even more important than elections by secret ballot or jury trials. My argument for this position is very simple: if we are not exposed to the truth, if we are not trained to recognize…
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