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  1. ChiTownScion

    Changes in Attitude in Marriage & Divorce from the Golden Era to Now.

    In a nutshell: if I were the king of the world I'd end much of the prosecutorial overreach in this area by borrowing from that which we were taught in Torts class. Essentially, by defining duty owed as being predicated upon the same reasonable foreseeability standard which Mr. Justice Cardozo...
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    Changes in Attitude in Marriage & Divorce from the Golden Era to Now.

    My wife and I have a standing joke about my "short list:" women who, if anything ever happens to her, are suitable mates for me lest I remain forever single after her demise. Top of the list is a mutual friend, a gal who finds my jokes funny, and makes the most outstanding pierogi. Humor, and...
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    You Realise Christmas Is Approaching When …

    "Let's all go to the lobby..."
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    In that vein.. we saw, "The Man Who Invented Christmas" last night, an entertaining exercise in speculation as to what went through the mind of Charles Dickens in 1843 while writing A Christmas Carol. There's a scene when he's touring America in 1842, on a stage while the orchestra is thumping...
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    Changes in Attitude in Marriage & Divorce from the Golden Era to Now.

    If the definition of a contract remains as, ".. an agreement the performance of which the law recognizes as an obligation and the breach for which the law provides remedies," then marriage is, by definition, a contract. If everyone entered into marriage with the same premeditated, deliberative...
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    Vintage trains

    This is my model of the Broadway Limited consist of April, 1953.
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    Changes in Attitude in Marriage & Divorce from the Golden Era to Now.

    After 30-plus years doing criminal defense work as a public defender in the largest unified circuit court system in the world, I retired and decided to hang out the shingle, essentially taking cases as they came with the hope of building a practice. My pension and my wife's salary provide us...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    And what is also interesting is that when it was given, there were a number of good conservative religious folk who deemed the rhetoric ("You shall not press this crown of thorns upon the brow of the working man! You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!") to be downright blasphemous...
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    Old gas stations

    As a kid, Field's and the Fair were the best places to see Santa in Chicago in the 1960's. The Marshall Field Santa was hands down the classiest act in town, but the Fair always set up small carnival rides on one of their floors at Christmas time, and that was unique. A mini "Mall of America,"...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, that's him.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Fascinating place. I remember crossing Independence Pass to get there in the middle of August, and encountering a snowstorm. The history of that town, including H.A.W. Tabor and his wife Baby Doe, is really interesting.
  14. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I had a boss who was deeply offended by the suggestion that she enjoy a few weeks off. ("Do you think that I need a VACATION? Why do you think that I need a vacation??") She was a great boss, the most generous of individuals, and she always seemed to enjoy seeing photos that I brought back from...
  15. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    I think that we're both pretty damned fortunate to have been able to have paid our own freight. Things were better then, in that it was affordable if you were willing to work for it- and jobs were out there that made it possible. It's a lot harder for kids these days. I suppose that now that...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    In so many ways my life began at 20. Graduated from community college and was finally able to go off to university on my own terms. If I had been able to call the shots I would have liked to have been sent to a boarding school or even a military school when I was as young as eight. It was a less...
  17. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Goodbye Christopher Robin. The son of author A.A. Milne was employed as a fictional character in the Winnie- the- Pooh books, and it resulted in a highly abnormal childhood for the kid. Milne the father was a survivor of the Battle of the Somme and had witnessed enough of the horrors of war to...
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    The Gender Thread, vive la difference!

    I've seen that sort of remolding of a character outside of the man/ woman dynamic as well in sitcoms. And even with the same actor. Sometimes a character is a bit of a heavy, but the audience takes a shine to him and so they remake him as a likeable (if somewhat rascal- ish) "good guy" to keep...
  20. ChiTownScion

    "New" D-Day footage re-emerges

    My dad hit Utah Beach on D+ 3, and lived through the Bulge. While I was growing up he loved to watch documentaries about the war and some of the better movies on the subject (The Longest Day, Patton, The Great Escape) with me, and was never shy about noting when Hollywood got it right or wrong...
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    The Gender Thread, vive la difference!

    And finally..
  22. ChiTownScion

    The Gender Thread, vive la difference!

    I can only speak as a dad who adopted two older kids (8 and 11, when we got them) from Russia. Some damage that is done to a kid at an early age can never be undone, no matter how many thousands of dollars and how many hours are spent in therapy or other remedial attempts. Substance abuse and...
  23. ChiTownScion

    The Gender Thread, vive la difference!

    The wording on that Cagney meme of mine really originated as a teasing bit that a friend of mine pulled on his wife- to her mild annoyance. He said that he envisioned "some old time movie star" saying it, and I immediately thought of Cagney or Bogart... but decided that Bogey was always more...

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