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  1. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    An acquired taste. A very easily acquired taste.
  2. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Pfeffernusse cookies on Christmas Eve were always a treat in my house when I was growing up.
  3. ChiTownScion

    My New Aero D1 Shearling Jacketm

    Hope your D-1 gives you as much pure joy as my ANJ-4 has given me. I really look forward to winter because of it!
  4. ChiTownScion

    Aero black FQHH -- Nickel or Brass zips..?

    My opinion? Go for the brass.
  5. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Anyone who tries to pull the "more patriotic than thou" act and is not a World War II combat vet. Because no World War II combat vet I have ever encountered stooped to that level.
  7. ChiTownScion

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Schenck v. United States. 249 U.S. 47,63 L. Ed. 470 (1919) Nearly a century later that standard of Mr. Justice Holmes still rings true: The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. [...] The question in every...
  8. ChiTownScion

    This or That

    Unwrap it completely. It's more civilized. Christmas present for three year old nephew/ niece: toy drum or toy horn?
  9. ChiTownScion

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    It's peculiar ground, commencements. It's supposed to be for the students, "their day," in recognition for a difficult goal achieved. I could have had the law diploma mailed to me, but for so long that image of donning the doctoral robe and walking up an aisle kept me going when it would have...
  10. ChiTownScion

    1930's Style Animation Selling a 21st Century Product

    The big guy with the beard bears an astonishing resemblance to a friend/ lodge brother of mine.
  11. ChiTownScion

    Is nothing sacred? Remaking Casablanca.

    I had a conversation with a dear friend that commenced with her remarks about, "that scene where the German officers are singing a Nazi song." I loved pointing out that the song, Die Wacht am Rhein was written long before Adolf Hitler was born, and that its lyrics ("Dear fatherland, put your...
  13. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Lobster isn't the sort of thing that's usually available in the Midwest, and when it is, the price of prime rib or a decent steak is usually less. Nevertheless, when I get up to Boston I usually try to partake in it or some other variety of seafood, usually on my own while my wife is attending a...
  14. ChiTownScion

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    My granddad in his teens was a lifeguard who worked with another teenage lifeguard by the name of Johnny Weissmuller- who later became better known for swinging through jungle trees. So, there was family pressure to learn to swim early. I was at age seven enrolled in a local park district learn-...
  15. ChiTownScion

    My New Aero D1 Shearling Jacketm

    Nice jacket!
  16. ChiTownScion

    1930's Style Animation Selling a 21st Century Product

    Some sort of app, from what I gather.
  17. ChiTownScion

    1930's Style Animation Selling a 21st Century Product

    Saw this earlier this year and thought it was extremely cute:
  19. ChiTownScion

    New WWII Flick: Anthropoid

    Saw it last night: it pulls no punches.
  20. ChiTownScion

    The End of the Era ...

    He of such patriotic virtue who avoided military duty in two world wars, of course.
  21. ChiTownScion

    The End of the Era ...

    ^^^ And never lose sight of the fact that it was a Republican and former 5 star general who warned us of that military industrial complex.
  22. ChiTownScion

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    Very true. Not only college educated parents who try to push a four year degree program on a kid who has no inclination nor abilities to that end, but uneducated working class parents whose own preconceptions of what higher education is about may be reality challenged. "She's a GIRL. Why does...
  23. ChiTownScion

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    I had an online discussion with that sort regarding corporal punishment in classrooms the other day. What I found was that while I relied upon statistics, scientific studies and other evidence supporting the argument against it, the opposition relied upon anecdote and the expected, "They did it...

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