For What It's Worth: An Old Fart's Ramblings

I've recently entered the afterlife of retirement and want to use this blog to record my observations, reflections, reactions, musings, and whatever else might strike my fancy, personal, cultural, political -- nothing, dear reader, you should be interested in or waste your time with. Que scais-je?

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Cursive

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My home state of Kansas is discussing the place of cursive handwriting in the education curriculum. That they are also discussing the plac...

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Celebrating the War Machine

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I seem to be one of the few people concerned about the militarization of the United States. This weekend – wrapped around Veterans’ Day – h...

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

An Historic Election

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This year was an historic election. At least for me. In forty years of voting, this year was the first in which every candidate I voted for...

Monday, November 5, 2012

Car Compications

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It was about 30 years ago when I first encountered the hell of modern cars. I wanted a new car (Honda, I think), but when I went looking th...

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

All Hallows' Eve

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Should you want to reduce the number of trick-or-treaters who besiege your house on Halloween, do what we do: Instead of passing out gobs o...

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The Fuel of War

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Listening to the presidential debate last night on foreign policy, with the bellicose rhetoric and promises of a strong military (and milit...

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J.L. McClure: After teaching college composition and literature for 37 years, I've taken early (semi-)retirement. One of my retirement activities is to write, and I thought this the perfect medium to keep me active in thought and word. My only reason for publishing my thoughts online is that it might be of some interest to someone, perhaps family and friends. And if not, then there's no harm done.

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