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  1. ChiTownScion

    What happened to small towns?

    My best friend from college bought his home back in '78 through such a program. I was a starving law student then- I wouldn't own a home for another eight years. His purchase price wouldn't get you a decent condo ownership parking garage space in many large cities now, but he and his wife stayed...
  2. ChiTownScion

    What happened to small towns?

    We took a hit on both our residence and our vacation cabin. Never underwater or at risk (We own the latter outright: we jokingly refer to it as our ace against the upcoming zombie apocalypse and financial catastrophe.), but we did lose resale value while taxes rose. Things have slowly improved...
  3. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^ The new Maine workforce ripe for unionization?
  4. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The main difference between interpreting the Constitution of the United States and the Bible is that the original autographs of the books of the Bible- in whichever of the eight or so canon of books or portion of books that various Christian traditions have embraces over the last 17 centuries-...
  5. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I've a copy of both Young's and Strong's concordances in my library (unless I've lent them out and never got them back: I'd have to check). They're great for the layperson who wants to do a little study on their own. But I wouldn't give you a nickel for a pulpiteer who claims to "preach only the...
  7. ChiTownScion

    What happened to small towns?

    Understood. Have you appealed the assessment? Nonetheless, the individuals who have done the most to earn my empathy are those who, as result of the 2008 financial meltdown, are still underwater: paying mortgages (if they can) for properties now worth far less than their purchase price. I've a...
  8. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That particular brand of mercenary religionist usually hasn't even attended an accredited college, much less graduated from a seminary. I remember advising a kid who wanted to be "a minister of the gospel" that the most prudent thing that he could do is obtain an undergrad liberal arts degree...
  9. ChiTownScion

    What happened to small towns?

    When you move into a community, you become part of said community. That means that you take on all of the obligations that everyone else has to bear, including the responsibility of educating the young. In my college town, the kids at the local high school did without music, art, and sports...
  10. ChiTownScion

    What happened to small towns?

    How much has the estimated resale value of your property appreciated from your purchase price?
  11. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Love that song. I can remember listening to Ernie Ford's recording when I was a baby, and I think one of the first questions that I ever asked my Mom once I began talking was what a "company stowe" was.
  13. ChiTownScion

    What happened to small towns?

    I have a real attitude about old retiree types who won't vote to raise a nickel of their property taxes to improve education, but want state of the art paramedic services on the public's dime: surviving the big one after decades of junk food and alcohol is their God given right, but a ten year...
  14. ChiTownScion

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    The gals who married the old Civil War geezers got a pension, and Douglas' "child bride" got her way paid through G-town Law and a jumpstart to her legal career. Considering inflation, it's almost a balance.
  15. ChiTownScion

    The Decaying Evolution of Education...

    And we thought that William O. Douglas- marrying a 22 year old college student when he was pushing seventy- was a scandal.
  16. ChiTownScion

    wartime home

    Bear in mind also that rationing continued in the UK well after the end of the war. Meat rationing continued until 1954. As noted: we in the US suffered comparatively little next to what the people of Great Britain.
  17. ChiTownScion

    What happened to small towns?

    This is exactly why my wife and I refuse to retire to a place where there are too many, well, folks like us: old people. Personally, I don't want to be surrounded by a bunch of old crabby people who are always putting down the young ones who are doing their best just to get ahead. I too remember...
  19. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread

    If only Aero would come out with the AN-T-35 shearling trousers that the flight crews wore with the ANJ-4... and the A-6A boots, too! Ah well... may as well ask for my own B-17G Flying Fortress too while I'm at it... right?
  20. ChiTownScion

    Anyone use jackets/clothing to help quit smoking?

    Thanks for the inspiration. What a great jacket alibi! Even a non- smoker such as myself can spin it to advantage: when the day comes- and I'm hoping that it won't be too far off, that I drop the cash on a nice new RAF Irvin I can tell my dear wife that it's a reward to myself for never having...
  21. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread

    Just a matter of personal taste, of course, but I really love it when you feature the flight jackets- especially the shearlings. I'm not a scooter jacket boy and I never will be- although I do appreciate the artistry that so many of them exhibit. For me, the appeal will always be with the World...
  22. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    At my old job at one point they suggested bringing in non- attorneys (obviously, political hacks who had done their part to get the then- county board chairman elected) to supervise courtroom- assigned public defenders. A quick call from the chief judge pointing out that would violate the canons...
  23. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. I've heard her before on NPR's This American Life but it's refreshing to actually read her humorous and fact filled accounts of the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley, and the often quirky personalities involved.

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