Don Shogren
Oddments and Apprehensions
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And I Heard Him Disclaim As He Rode Out Of Sight…
I don’t watch a lot of prime time TV. Beyond football, I mostly stick to Jeopardy, Wheel, the occasional old movie, and the news. These are the meeting houses where my nervous, distracted and aging demographic, the boomers, finally catch up with me. There are a lot of drug commercials. The annual domestic revenue of…
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I Wouldn’t Hear of Movies These Days
I watch Jeopardy as often as I can. I think it’s good exercise for the file retrieval system in my brain, though it can be a little frustrating when you’re certain something is up there on the shelves if you could just find the damn ladder. I’m great at geography, rock and classical music, pretty…
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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
At long last, the Trump tax returns were made public. While a scramble of usual Democratic suspects focuses weakly on the latest going-nowhere “gotchas”, Republicans are crowing “see, nothing illegal, here” and wailing at the injustice of it all–vowing to make everyone down to dogcatcher turn over their 1040 short forms too (sorry, animal rescue…
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What Kind of Idiot…
In a recent post, I tried to make the point that the National Weather Service would serve us better if they were a little more timely with trimming their dire forecasts and warnings when later data indicates they should. I also posted a comment on the local NWS Facebook site to that effect. The issue…
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Ignore This At Your Own Peril
In the Swedish film epic The Emigrants, a settler saves his young son from a Minnesota Territory blizzard by sheltering him in the disemboweled carcass of an ox. It’s a powerful scene Fast forward to this morning, where tens of thousands of women and at least a few hundred men all across southern Wisconsin, many…
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