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Big Chicken

I lived in the Atlanta area in the late 1980’s.  More specifically, I lived in Cobb County which is just northwest of the city.  If you ask for directions to anywhere in Cobb County, the reply you receive will invariably include The Big Chicken.  The Big Chicken is a locally-famous

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Crazy Like a Liberal

It seems like more and more often, I find myself shaking my head and wondering how anyone can think the things that some people think.  I’ll admit, my political views tend to lean a bit Conservative, so most of the time the people whose thinking I’m thinking about happen to

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Coronaphobia

There’s something about me that most people don’t know.  I hate palm trees.  OK, I guess I don’t hate them.  It’s more like they give me the willies.  I didn’t see one in real life until I was in my mid-twenties but even before then, there was something about them

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Corrective Lenses

If I were born in the fourteenth century, I’d have died a long time ago.  Wait, that didn’t come out right.  Let me rephrase.  If I had lived in the fourteenth century, I wouldn’t have lived as long as I have.  Ah.  Much better. You see, I have really poor

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Guns N’ Noses

I’m sure everyone has been hit up by various organizations asking for your political opinion.  The ones I hate are the ones that ask a question like: “How good of a job do you think the governor is doing?”.  Then, they only allow you to choose from one of the

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The Beginning of the End

This was a huge week.  If you only listen to mainstream media, Twitter and Facebook, you might not realize it.  But it was.  The United Kingdom, France and Ireland all announced this week that they’ll drop most, if not all, of their COVID restrictions and mandates. It’s about time that

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Broken Hearted

It used to be that a story about an athlete dropping dead on the playing field was big news.  Now it happens so often that it’s starting to become background noise.  Think about it.  Two years ago, we might hear one, maybe two stories a year about people dying while

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