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Guns, Booze and the GOP Mindset | Marginalia
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Observations From The Cheap Seats. News and Random Rants. Guns, Booze and the GOP Mindset. Chris and Candace are two bartenders in their 20s who rarely have time for politics – until now that is. Once I told them their safety may be jeopardized in a big way, they suddenly started paying attention. The news that startled them to such a degree? A significant number of Republican lawmakers here in North Carolina want to let people carry handguns into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. It’s not surpris...
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10 | April | 2013 | Marginalia
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Observations From The Cheap Seats. News and Random Rants. Guns, Booze and the GOP Mindset. Chris and Candace are two bartenders in their 20s who rarely have time for politics – until now that is. Once I told them their safety may be jeopardized in a big way, they suddenly started paying attention. The news that startled them to such a degree? A significant number of Republican lawmakers here in North Carolina want to let people carry handguns into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. It’s not surpris...
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22 | April | 2013 | Marginalia
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Observations From The Cheap Seats. News and Random Rants. The deal was set to go down at 11. We would meet in the far reaches of a supermarket parking lot, away from the prying eyes of snoops. She would arrive in a nondescript black truck, me in an equally innocuous Ford sedan. She made sure to let me know her husband would be coming along; the implied message being she would have protection if things didn’t go down as planned. Her husband hopped out of the truck. You got it? I find it best to meet peopl...
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09 | February | 2013 | Marginalia
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Observations From The Cheap Seats. This Is Not Me. I Have Met The Enemy And It Is ‘The Other Steve’. To paraphrase a very wise cartoon character, I have met the enemy and we share the same name. To be fair, I’ve never spoken to The Other Steve Wissink, better known in the database of TV drivel as The Guy Who Chose Girl No. 2 On A TV Game Show. Steve and Dating Game girl in Kenya. Posts, I can tell The Other Steve likes assault rifles, hates the president, and belittles those who don’t speak his language.
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The Creepy Photog At Walmart | Marginalia
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Observations From The Cheap Seats. News and Random Rants. The Creepy Photog At Walmart. The hunt was on. Armed only with a blind email address, I wanted to track down the middle-age creep who approached a friend of mine from the coffee shop while she shopped at Walmart. He asked if she wanted to make a few bucks posing for pictures on adult-oriented web sites. But he handed her his business card and when she recounted her story, she passed the info on to me. And You Have Been Scouted. Step Two: Send an e...
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Craigslist Crazies | Marginalia
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Observations From The Cheap Seats. News and Random Rants. The deal was set to go down at 11. We would meet in the far reaches of a supermarket parking lot, away from the prying eyes of snoops. She would arrive in a nondescript black truck, me in an equally innocuous Ford sedan. She made sure to let me know her husband would be coming along; the implied message being she would have protection if things didn’t go down as planned. Her husband hopped out of the truck. You got it? I find it best to meet peopl...
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Divorce And The GOP’s ‘Tarheel Taliban’ | Marginalia
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Observations From The Cheap Seats. News and Random Rants. Divorce And The GOP’s ‘Tarheel Taliban’. Quick, someone call the hotline at Stop Torture Now. The human rights group needs to sound the alarm over two lawmakers who want to inflict cruel and unusual punishment upon every unhappy couple across North Carolina that wants to divorce and move on with life. These two high-and-mighty-moralists from the ‘burbs of Bubbabville have proposed legislation. From the law firm of Lennon and Koselke. Being the gen...
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More Sizzle Than The Super Bowl | Marginalia
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Observations From The Cheap Seats. More Sizzle Than The Super Bowl. The question raised by my coffee house clique posed a daunting challenge. How does one become the buzz. At a Super Bowl Party, more talked about than the year’s best commercials or the game itself? To make the challenge even more arduous, there was a ground rule. Being caught in flagrante delicto. Grammy Award winner David Byrne. To be the buzz of the party, all I had to do was show up in an old-school suit complete with a pink shirt, a ...
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Observations From The Cheap Seats. My Post Cancer Life. Lessons From The Chemo Lounge. During treatment for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, I often would jot down notes in a journal my daughter sent me as part of a care package. Here are some of the notes I made. They are my keys to living a happy and meaningful life. 1 Life is not a passive verb. Get off your butt and do something that YOU want to do. 6 The beach and woods are sacred places. Both also are great for certain recreational activities of an NC-17 ad...
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Stephen Wissink | Marginalia
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Observations From The Cheap Seats. Author Archives: Stephen Wissink. News and Random Rants. The deal was set to go down at 11. We would meet in the far reaches of a supermarket parking lot, away from the prying eyes of snoops. She would arrive in a nondescript black truck, me in an equally innocuous Ford sedan. She made sure to let me know her husband would be coming along; the implied message being she would have protection if things didn’t go down as planned. I find it best to meet people in public pla...
