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I’ve looked at snow from both sides now

UncategorizedBy John YoungFebruary 4, 2014Leave a comment

  At one time in my life I had no use for it. Hated it.   I hated what snow did to the morning newspaper, how it crimped my driveway basketball dominance, how it curbed mobility in all forms except on skis.   And now?   Love it. Can’t get enough of it. Snow, snow, snow.…

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GOP has terrible niche it must scratch

UncategorizedBy John YoungJanuary 28, 2014Leave a comment

This just in: John McCain — too liberal for the Republican Party. Guilty as charged, and as pronounced last week by state committee members of the Arizona Republican Party. They voted to censure the state’s senior senator, and is anyone surprised? McCain’s crimes: insufficiently pure thought, and collaboration with the enemy. Firing squad to be…

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Putting squeeze on nation’s I.Q.

UncategorizedBy John YoungJanuary 22, 20141 Comment

Football being the fixation of the nation right now, let's employ a gridiron analogy to understand what's become of society's most important pursuit.  The issue: helmets and brain injury. Ostensibly built to protect the brain, impervious to destruction, helmets allow players to use their heads as weapons.   Elsewhere, what are we doing with our heads?…

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A message to johnyoungcolumn.com nation

UncategorizedBy John YoungJanuary 21, 2014Leave a comment

  If Stephen Colbert and Fox News can have a nation, so can we. When johnyoungcolumn.com was launched about five years ago, I didn’t even know an email list function was possible. Fortunately, web designer Josiah Spence did, so we have can have weekly interaction by email. From the start, I’ve never known how many people…

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Disagree with military brass? How dare he?

UncategorizedBy John YoungJanuary 14, 2014Leave a comment

From the moment Lloyd Bentsen uttered it, none could disagree with his televised jab that Dan Quayle was “no Jack Kennedy.” Few remember, however, that in ascending to the presidency, Jack Kennedy had his own damning comparison. He was no Dwight Eisenhower. It took a disaster at the Bay of Pigs, and then resolve in…

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The real reefer madness

UncategorizedBy John YoungJanuary 7, 2014Leave a comment

   Sixteen years on, I can’t forget the joint Will Foster showed me.    You wouldn’t, either.    That joint — the jumble of tissue at the midpoint of his index finger — was so bulbous and discolored as to be screaming to exit his skin.    Foster has severe arthritis afflicting his extremities. But…

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Stepping sanely into a new year

UncategorizedBy John YoungDecember 31, 20131 Comment

   We walk upright. We have a foot up.    At least that’s how it looks on paper.    In practice, I’m alarmed to report that we act like a bunch of gambusia. And they breathe through gills.   Also known as mosquito fish, gambusia have a lifespan of two years. A hiccup. No problem…

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2013: When the conversation changed

UncategorizedBy John YoungDecember 23, 2013Leave a comment

  It was a bad year for the president, some would say his worst.   The nation was divided to the breaking point. It seemed nothing went right for him in 1862.     And yet, Abraham Lincoln, his proxies being pummeled on the battlefield, rose above it to bring about a fundamental change regarding a most…

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Yes, Virginia, Santa Claus is black, and . . .

UncategorizedBy John YoungDecember 17, 2013Leave a comment

   What would you expect from this corner but a spirited defense of Megyn Kelly?    Aside from being blonde, she is paid to convey truth per memo from Fox News management. So when declaring as “verifiable fact” the racial makeup of Santa (and Jesus!) to be white, like Fox News management., she is simply…

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Where discrimination still takes the cake

UncategorizedBy John YoungDecember 11, 2013Leave a comment

  Discrimination is a thing of the past. It’s sooo 1964. Right?   So why did a Colorado judge just make a ruling regarding discrimination and wedding cake?   Because discrimination isn’t a thing of the past. It’s soooo 2013.   The Masterpiece Cake Shop in Denver was more than willing to take Charlie Craig’s and…

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