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Who’s picking on Faux News?

UncategorizedBy John YoungOctober 28, 2009Leave a comment

  Ever since it became a boil on the face of news gathering, I’ve been waiting for someone, anyone, to truly and convincingly defend Fox News — Faux News to those of us who defend news gathering as a craft verging on a profession.    I keep waiting and waiting. But at every opportunity the apologists…

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Not my idea of ‘Texan’

UncategorizedBy John YoungOctober 23, 2009Leave a comment

    I remember being at many enjoyable places with my grandfather, M.K. Young. But I knew his favorite place, regardless of locale: the fence line.    Wherever he was, he went to the stranger next door. Whatever the circumstance, he struck up a conversation. In the campground. In a son’s neighborhood. At a roadside stop.…

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‘Didn’t go there to fight a war’

UncategorizedBy John YoungOctober 14, 2009Leave a comment

   This nation still can’t decide if war is a joint responsibility we all share, or if it’s something we hire out, like catering.     Eight years in Afghanistan, six in Iraq, and we still treat warfare as just one of many service industries.     The Bush administration ban on photographing coffins returning…

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The high cost of decomposing

UncategorizedBy John YoungOctober 7, 20091 Comment

  I still prefer to be barbecued. Or broiled —  however it is that my remains can be reduced to the kind of dusty nutrient that makes fields and ravines grow greener.   If it can’t be the Viking way — by floating pyre — let my bones retire the cremation way.   That doesn’t…

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Help for all those Audie Murphys

UncategorizedBy John YoungSeptember 30, 2009Leave a comment

     A book from my childhood about Medal of Honor winners has a chapter about him: “Too Young to Fight.”      The Texas boy lied about his age at 17, his face and physique betraying him to the Marines and Paratroopers who turned him away. Enlisting in the Army at the stroke of 18,…

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Under ‘accountability’: Blame the bricks

UncategorizedBy John YoungSeptember 23, 20091 Comment

  What to do with a “failing” school:    Summon a demolition party with torches? Convene priests and exorcize it of pedagogical demons?    Convert it to a prison, the destination to which we assume students are bound due to the building’s failure? Yes, the building’s failure.     All of the above fit neatly into…

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Why keep playing Reagan’s game?

UncategorizedBy John YoungSeptember 16, 20092 Comments

    Scanning the ranks of the noble Tea Party protesters — exiles of conscience, taxed into penury without representation — it’s hard to ignore one impression:     For oppressed people, they haven’t missed many meals.     Also: Apparently they had their attentions turned to the buffet table throughout the Bush administration.     …

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Waste of a perfectly good radio

UncategorizedBy John YoungSeptember 9, 2009Leave a comment

When my hands held it again for the first time in decades, I felt the electricity that made it such an exciting gift for an 8-year-old. A radio I could hold in my hand — pop music, sports, news — all at my command in a genuine leather holder. By appearance, that radio — a…

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Border wall is eco-catastrophe

UncategorizedBy John YoungSeptember 2, 2009Leave a comment

   PRESCOTT, Ariz. — “It’s no wasteland.”    No, not this mountainous berg where seemingly everyone over 65 wants to live.    Sergio Avila is talking about the U.S.-Mexico border, which bobcats, ocelots, jaguars, mountain lions, black bears and so much more inhabit.     Avila, a biologist with the Sky Island Alliance, is a…

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Discourse to make you (sea-) sick

UncategorizedBy John YoungAugust 25, 2009Leave a comment

Public policy in America has become a tale of two ships. The first, set on a deliberate (“bipartisan”) course, has no idea where it’s headed, and is determined to get there. The other ship is steaming, literally. On board, various strains of airborne illness (talk radio) are shared between passengers, ping-ponged back and forth like…

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