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  1. ChiTownScion

    Did you attend a college or university?

    Neither of my parents were college grads, but it was drilled into me from Day One that to get anywhere in life you needed either a journeyman's card in a building trade union or a college degree. Of course, for all of their talk and vicarious planning, I never got any financial aid from my...
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    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    And then there's the longest running radio drama of all time, "Unshackled!" from Chicago's Pacific Garden Mission. First went on the air in 1950, and still going strong. It certainly has its corny moments, but if you're in the area on a Saturday evening, you can sit in the studio audience and...
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    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    I remember (1970's) The Lutheran Hour and Oswald Hoffman. Always seemed like an amiable German uncle kind of a guy- the type with whom you could have a beer or two and solve 90% of the world's problems.
  4. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    Archdiocesan priest out of Detroit, actually. That anti-Semitic crap would have gotten him drummed out of the Society.
  5. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    He started out as a Presbyterian. That he ended up as a Baptist speaks volumes. Of course, Lizzie, as Reverend Maclean (Pat Skerritt) in A River Runs Through It taught, Methodists are, "Baptists....who can read." ;)
  7. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    It is true that complications can arise that can make pregnancy difficult and dangerous. I would hope to avoid the appearance of patronizing sexism by the blanket designation of handicap to all cases.
  8. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    I want to see more of the proposed evidence before I render any judgment. Killing Eddie Slovak during a time of declared war was enough of a travesty, so I'm reluctant to jump on any bandwagon screaming for blood. My own opinion is that military Judge Advocates acting as prosecutors nowadays are...
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    The general decline in standards today

    Another (mainly senior cit.) entitlement gripe: handicapped parking abuses. Classic case was my mother in law. When she was married to my wife's dad (that marriage ended in divorce after 57 years) she was participating in volksmarsches, a walking activity she and other military personnel and...
  10. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    This is why, when I'm old enough to get the free tuition perk at 65, I will attend college classes for credit, work toward another degree, sweat for my "A" like everyone else, and never merely audit classes. The horror stories I have heard from my younger friends regarding seniors auditing...
  11. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    The centennial certainly did rekindle a lot of interest in the Civil War and the modern battlefield preservation movement. The effort to preserve continues through the efforts of such groups as the Civil War Trust and the Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites. They've done...
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    The general decline in standards today

  14. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    Good old San Antonio, home of my wife's family. Spent 20 years there, one weekend.
  15. ChiTownScion

    The $10,000 leather Gladstone bag

    Not for me. If I want a comparable bag made, I have a connection in Kentucky who can make me a comparable bag for less than $1500. Still too rich for my blood.. but arguably, a less extravagant extravagance ?
  16. ChiTownScion

    The $10,000 leather Gladstone bag

    I don't have an eBay account, but I will confess that last year, I paid $2.85 for a tweed sports coat at Goodwill. After making the beeline in a sealed plastic bag to the dry cleaners, it became a valuable part of my wardrobe: perfect for those movie nights when, with a decent pair of khakis and...
  17. ChiTownScion

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Anniversary

    This is the price we pay (actually, the price we expect others to pay) for inexpensive imported clothing. We'd rather spend our money to support goods made in the US, but American manufacturers are becoming fewer and their products more costly. And it's these people in third world nations who...
  19. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Therein lies the problem with dropping the F- bomb as a reflex. It loses its edge- if it ever had one. I find that those who employ it at all tend to overuse it, and those who don't overuse it don't employ it at all. I suppose the worst overuse of I heard was from other boy choristers when I...
  20. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    I always respected him for his role in popularizing commercial and general aviation. And his role toward the end for environmental awareness. But I think that LaRosa affair underscored a venality and insecurity within his character. He certainly wasn't alone in that industry in that regard, but...
  21. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Cursing doesn't bother me per se. I don't care for uncreative maladicta: the standard four letter Anglo Saxon expletives employed carelessly. It's more the laziness than the obscenity that offends me. Cursing can be an art form, if done properly. Very few today master the art, at least while...
  22. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Where we usually go, it's sixty, and I have to confess: when it comes to saving a buck or two from a corporate conglomerate I have few qualms of conscience when my wife asks for discounted senior tickets for us. (And I've learned to never argue with her when she's pinching a penny.) A family...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "I'm OLD ! Gimmee! Gimmee! Gimmee! Gimmee! Gimmee!" Grandpa Abe Simpson

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