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Wessays ™: September 2014
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Monday, September 29, 2014. 1389 Don't Get Sick. It’s that time of year again… time to start thinking about health insurance for 2015. Open enrollment starts November 15th and runs until February 15th. We can hardly wait for this year’s Healthcare-dot-gov follies. Last year’s not ready for prime time debut was the stuff of legends. Over the past few weeks we’ve been nosing around the various private bureaucracy sites and found most of them as confusing and contradictory as ever. Well, because there is a ...
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Wessays ™: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. 1479 Baltimore: Letter to a Young Old Friend. Across time, I’ve rarely found cause to disagree with your views, but today is different. You’ve posted much on social media about the conditions in Baltimore, condemning racism and I salute you for that. But please hear me out on rioting. I’ve covered disturbances since the 1960s. I’ve seen the aftermaths and they are ugly. Baltimore is no different from Harlem or Newark or Los Angeles. Yes, we have a race problem in this country&#...
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Wessays ™: 1521 So Long to the A&P
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Wednesday, August 05, 2015. 1521 So Long to the A&P. 1521 So Long to the A&P. If dingy were a fashion statement, the A&P would be Coco Chanel. From its lofty perch as a retail pioneer to its long road down to bankruptcy, there’s no more familiar a name than this first generation and possibly actual first supermarket. Mention this outfit and a frequent reply is “oh, are they still around.” Yes. Sort of. When the original owners - mostly a family trust - sold the whole mess to an outfit in Germany, no one ...
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Wessays ™: February 2015
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Friday, February 27, 2015. 1452 Run For Your Lives, It's Inflation! First it was Wal-mart. Then came TJMaxx. Who will be next? These retailers are going to raise wages. Nine dollars an hour for TJ’s and its Marshall’s and Home Goods brand stores. Great news, right? First, let’s do the math. $9.00 an hour x 40 hours = $360. Times 52 weeks (assuming a two week paid vacation) = $18,720 before taxes. Sounds decent, right? Well, not really. But better than now. Now, let’s look at the poverty line:. And even a...
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Wessays ™: November 2014
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Friday, November 28, 2014. 1415 A Murder in Ferguson, Missouri. Let’s get a few little things out of the way first. Peaceful protests do no harm but often little good. The only beneficiaries of a riot are the rebuilding companies and the bill collectors. Then, there’s the old lawyer joke: “Given the will, any district attorney can indict a ham sandwich.”. Michael Brown, 18, was not the kind of guy you’d ask to watch your handbag when you had to use the restroom in the diner. It’s been said in some ...
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Wessays ™: 1519 The Cowardly Dentist
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Friday, July 31, 2015. 1519 The Cowardly Dentist. 1519 The Cowardly Dentist. The Wizard of Oz is an unending source of analogy and metaphor. The Cowardly Lion turned out to be brave, after all. The cowardly dentist who shot Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe is another story. Cecil was raised on a game preserve, a place where you can’t hunt. He was a local celebrity, evidently on the laid back side of lionism, who played well with other lions and was used to people… trusting, maybe even. Plus no 300 yard drives ...
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Wessays ™: August 2015
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Monday, August 31, 2015. 1532 Why Not Tattoos or Arm Bands, Gov. Christie? 1532 Why Not Tattoos or Arm Bands, Gov. Christie? The governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie had a brilliant idea the other day. He came up with a way to “track immigrants.” Bar codes. Christie wants FedEx to design a system similar to the one it uses to track packages, which, by all accounts, works pretty well, barring bad storms, birds in the engines or the presence of suspicious packages. Then how about politicians? It’s ...
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Wessays ™: July 2015
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Friday, July 31, 2015. 1519 The Cowardly Dentist. 1519 The Cowardly Dentist. The Wizard of Oz is an unending source of analogy and metaphor. The Cowardly Lion turned out to be brave, after all. The cowardly dentist who shot Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe is another story. Cecil was raised on a game preserve, a place where you can’t hunt. He was a local celebrity, evidently on the laid back side of lionism, who played well with other lions and was used to people… trusting, maybe even. Plus no 300 yard drives ...
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Wessays ™: 1522 A Ghost's Story
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Friday, August 07, 2015. 1522 A Ghost's Story. 1522 A Ghost’s Story. The following recently materialized on the Wessays™ computer hard drive and is being posted as received:. You have to wonder what's wrong with people. Here I've been “living” peacefully for a long long time and now new people move into the house. I try to scare them off. It's not that I don't like them. It's just that this is MY personal space. They figure the place is haunted. I try to stay away from the little kids because I suspect t...
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Wessays ™: 1520 Coming Down from Olympus
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Monday, August 03, 2015. 1520 Coming Down from Olympus. Okay, take out your pencils and papers, kids, it’s time for a quiz. Just one question today: What’s more mindless than football, duller than baseball, and more boring than golf and tennis combined? Endless days and nights of … nothing. It’s time to rethink this lumbering and useless draining of international resources. What sparks this not-too-diplomatic tirade? Two recent developments, Rio- 2016 and Beijing- 2022. Then there’s the recently an...
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