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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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What I’m already missing; what I won’t miss at all

UncategorizedBy John YoungAugust 6, 20091 Comment

It will be a cross between “Beverly Hillbillies” and “Wagon Train” when we head ’em up and move ’em out. Greater Waco will recede in the rearview mirror, Speegleville shouting a last “Ya’ll come back.” Which we will. We’ve still got packing and unplugging to do. Some spots on the floor of the too-small house…

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A tree grows in Waco

UncategorizedBy John YoungAugust 2, 2009Leave a comment

A newcomer experiences several “oh, wow” moments in Waco. Oh, wow. The lake. Oh, wow. The Waco Suspension Bridge against the ALICO. One of my first oh-wow moments came looking out from the top floor of the Hillcrest Medical Tower. “Oh, wow. Look at all the trees.” You may not think of Waco’s trees —…

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To the family that replaces us

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 31, 2009Leave a comment

The too-small house is more cramped than ever. That’s because, for one, the attic is empty. Everything that resided over our heads for years is around our ankles as we prepare for a move, and as the house prepares for a new owner. If you’re in the market, it’s the one with the inch-high plastic…

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John Young: Big as Texas; no, even bigger

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 28, 2009Leave a comment

ARLINGTON — I was touring the new Cowboys Stadium here along with Roger Staubach. He was in awe. Actually, he didn’t tell me as much. He didn’t tell me anything, to be exact. But, really: Anyone with eyes, ears and spatial acuity would be in awe. Staubach has those. And Staubach wasn’t actually beside me. We media…

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Of cyclopses, sideshows and Cronkite

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 24, 2009Leave a comment

The first time TV regularly shared Walter Cronkite’s history-changing voice, he was a clumsy-looking bystander. Not his fault. Everything about CBS’s “You Are There” was clunky. In black and white, it took us to relive moments in history on sets every bit as authentic as Flash Gordon’s spaceship. When Cronkite became America’s preeminent newsman and…

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A pitch for inconsequence

UncategorizedBy John YoungJuly 19, 2009Leave a comment

“Men are so strange,” said my wife, as Barack Obama made the ceremonial first pitch before the All-Star Game. She was remarking on the fact that Obama, so as not to shame himself by winging it up into the stands, had taken a few practice pitches in a subterranean batting cage. “Why would men worry…

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