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Calhouns Can(n)ons: May 2015
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Sunday, May 31, 2015. Parting Shots: The Penultimate Papers. I Need a Nap. A friend sent me a copy of Tom Brokaw’s “A Lucky Life Interrupted.” (A good read by the way) And I was oddly comforted to read that pancreatic cancer strikes one in seventy-eight men and women. My peeps! It sure must have taken my Docs by surprise. They must feel awful, as in Well, Dang! But then, maybe not. So far, I have refrained from calling them up to say, “I told you I was sick.” That would be churlish. In my case, there wer...
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Calhouns Can(n)ons: July 2014
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Sunday, July 27, 2014. Saturday, July 26, 2014. In a world that finds it so easy to kill - planes shot out of the sky, refugee centers shelled, suicide bombers sending body parts flying everywhere -– our prison system is having a heck of a time executing its prisoners on death row. And that begs the question: Is this sorry S.O.B. worth. Which raises a final question: Is our whole justice system “cruel and unusual? 8221; Then maybe that’s what we should. Joseph R. Wood III. Texas capital punishment cases.
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Calhouns Can(n)ons: Archibald McDog
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Saturday, April 11, 2015. Calhoun's Cannons for April 11, 2015. He had no brakes. Full of wild enthusiasms, he ran at everything full tilt. Two speeds: Zero and Oh, No! Nothing in between. Bang his food dish and in a split second he would ramp himself up into panting Full Crazy. Pick up the leash and he was at the door, engine roaring. He had no manners, either. And didn't speak or understand "Dog" very well, which made every social encounter with other dogs fraught with peril. Oh, look, a squirrel!
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Calhouns Can(n)ons: Your Sunday Photo
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Sunday, May 10, 2015. Sammy, The Snail Male. Sewertoons AKA Lynette Tornatzky. I see lots of water-wise succulents too. Which reminds me, due to the drought, I have not had any snails eating up the succulents in my yard like they usually do (and I am not talking Shoulderband snails, which do not eat your plants, but the common ones you see, or used to see, everywhere). 4:18 PM, May 16, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Was originally published in 1990 in the (now defunct) Morro Bay, CA,. Parting ...
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Calhouns Can(n)ons: March 2015
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Sunday, March 15, 2015. What more can we ask than to never know what to expect. Sunday, March 08, 2015. Thursday, March 05, 2015. When I first read Joe Tarica’s column on our beautiful bridge bear being vandalized, I had a flame of anger. Then I felt a wave of fatigue and thought, Oh, why bother? Thinking somehow that this act of stupidity will improve their lives. Give them some momentary triumph until the sad reality of their looser existence returns. It’s a dull story, retold all around the worl...
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Calhouns Can(n)ons: November 2014
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. It's that time again. Time to grab the kids and head down to PCPA ( http:/ www.PCPA.ORG. For their wonderful Christmas offering, "Christmas is Here Again," a new musical by Brad Carrol and Jeremy Mann. This charmer is a wonderful mashup of Hans Christian Anderson's "Snow Queen," ("Frozen"), Peter Pan, (Clap if you believe in Peter Pan), and the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Fox (played by George Walker, who's worth the price of admission alone). Meanwhile. . . From noon to 4 pm&#...
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Calhouns Can(n)ons: January 2015
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Saturday, January 31, 2015. Screed or a powerful anti-war film. These simple black and white designations always diminish and disguise the complicated reality of soldering and war. The propensity of calling anyone who did their duty a “hero” seems to be a recent outcome of a culture that gives out gold stars and trophies to kids who just showed up so as to not wound their tender sense of self-esteem. In addition, our modern wars conducted by a small cadre of chronically overburdened professional soldiers...
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Calhouns Can(n)ons: May 2014
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Thursday, May 29, 2014. May 29, 2014. As harsh as this sounds - your dead kids don't trump my Constitutional rights.". Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher. That's Joe, "The Plumber.". A few years ago, he was the darling of the right, the poster child of the aggrieved White Guy. His cri de coeur. Comes from his open letter to Richard Martinez, whose 20 year-old son was murdered during the recent Isla Vista shooting spree. Mr Martinez also had a cri de coeur. When will this insanity stop? Wanted to deal with - ...
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Calhouns Can(n)ons: June 2014
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Sunday, June 29, 2014. It started while I was in the nursery staring at this little tree. It was the dead of winter and here was this little tree, the photo-tag clinging to its fragile branch, a photo promising much. promising a dream, really, of warm springs, flowering blossoms, and baskets of crunchy fruits when fall is in the air. Ka-Ching! Went the cash register. More fencing had to be bought. Thus swaddled, success! And apple leaves followed! In no time, wrapped and be-ribboned, my little garden plo...
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