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| | Politics and Pavlov’s dog
09/24/2008
The current presidential campaign has me thinking a lot about Ivan Pavlov’s dog.
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| | Rearranging the Monopoly board
09/17/2008
Real estate experts will tell you that when it comes to determining the value of a piece of property the key factor is “Location, location, location.”
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| | Readers share memories
09/10/2008
My grandson "skips." Yes, when he's out for a walk with me, in his own little world, he skips. It's not walking, it isn't running, it's... what?
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| | How the ’64 Convention paved the way for Obama
09/03/2008
Since history is not only the story of past events but an evaluation of their significance, it is difficult to know when you are present at the moment history is being made. Like the time in late August 1964 when I attended the Democratic National Convent
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| | Olympic drumbeat
08/27/2008
I don’t know about you but I found those 2008 drummers beating their “fou” drums in perfect synchrony to open the 2008 Beijing Olympics a bit intimidating.
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| | Rain or shine, ‘Have a happy’
08/20/2008
I see that the Weather Channel – which I wouldn’t have given you a plugged nickel for when it made its first appearance on cable in 1982 – has just been sold to NBC for $3.5 billion. Shows you what I know.
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| | Whatever happened to the old front porch?
08/13/2008
Time was when everyone would try to escape the hot breath of a scorching August evening by lingering outside as long as possible, awaiting the first hint of a cooling nighttime breeze once the sun’s fire had been banked below the horizon.
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| | The theory of planned obsolescence and me
08/06/2008
We bought a new refrigerator last week. We didn't really want to. Our old one wasn't really that old, less than five years, but apparently they don't produce appliances that last as long as they used to.
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| | My memorabilia from magic moments
07/30/2008
Sometimes it seems that much of my life has been spent preserving things for posterity that posterity finds of little or no interest... memorabilia of magic moments long past; the flotsam and jetsam left behind in the murky backwaters of memory.
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| | The summer I caused a financial crisis
07/23/2008
It was the summer of 1940, vacation time between my junior and senior years at Dumont High School. I was 17 and, like just about every boy in those days when the Great Depression still held the nation in its grip, I had a summer job.
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| | What color is China?
07/16/2008
Sometimes I forget what a deprived childhood my generation had. No plastics, no TV, no computers, no electronic games.
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| | George Carlin's legacy
07/02/2008
As John Donne wrote, "Any man's death diminishes me," and so I mourn George Carlin's death at the too young age of 71.
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| | Jimmy Carter had the right idea
07/02/2008
Sometimes I wonder who's most to blame for many of our nation's problems, the politicians who treat the voters like fools or we voters who prove them right by acting as if we really are.
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| | Heat wave? What heat wave?
06/25/2008
One of the problems with writing a weekly column is that if you decide to comment on some current event the chances are that by time your column gets read the event won’t be current anymore.
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| | When's the last time...
06/11/2008
... you saw boys playing stickball in the street? Or saw girls jumping rope, and who remembers those singsong ditties they would chant? "One potato, two potato, three potato, four?"
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| | Readers' "Moments to Remember"
06/04/2008
The following is another column in which Ed Flynn's readers share their own "Moment to Remember" with other readers.
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| | Who's that knocking at my door?
05/28/2008
The other evening when my wife and I had settled down in our favorite chairs in the family room to watch the evening news we heard the somewhat surprising sound of the front door chimes.
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| | I have a secret but I forgot what it is
05/21/2008
When you get to be my age you tend to forget a few things like what you had for lunch yesterday or where you put the car keys or sometimes even to put your teeth in in the morning.
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| | Take me out to the ballpark… before they tear it down
05/14/2008
I guess you know that you’re getting old when they start to tear down the baseball stadiums that were built in your own lifetime, presumably because they are considered too decrepit for a major league team and its fans.
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 | About a boy and a tree
05/07/2008
We planted the tree in the spring two years ago, my great grandson Carter and I.
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| | Readers’ ‘Moments to Remember’
04/29/2008
I recently invited readers to share one of their “Moments to Remember” with other readers. Here are a few of the first ones I received:
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| | Do you know where your credit card is?
04/23/2008
When I received the phone call from someone who identified herself as a representative of my credit card?s Fraud Bureau I was immediately suspicious.
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| | The Sunday Drive gets expensive
04/16/2008
I hope that the price for a gallon of gasoline doesn?t reach the point where my wife and I can't afford to fill the tank for our regular 'Sunday Drive.'
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| | Taking electricity for granted
04/09/2008
It was about 6:30 in the evening when the electricity went off, just beginning to get dark enough to turn on a few lights.
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| | A reader’s ‘Moment to Remember’
03/21/2008
One of the fringe benefits of writing a column is the mail you receive. I try to answer every letter as long as the return address is readable and in the future I thought I’d occasionally share some of them with other readers.
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| | ‘Idol’ not an American original
03/21/2008
I don’t watch “American Idol,” but I couldn’t help but notice in the news that there’s a minor controversy concerning one of the current contestants on that popular television program.
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| | Time for another Kennedy-like commitment
03/12/2008
Watching the shuttle Atlantis glide gracefully back to earth last week I couldn’t help but wonder how many Americans were aware that it had even been in space.
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| | An underdog becomes top dog
02/27/2008
I guess you could say an underdog finally won the dog show when a beagle named Uno garnered Best of Show last week at the Westminster Kennel Club’s competition in Madison Square Garden.
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| | When Giants roamed the Polo Grounds
02/20/2008
Ed Flynn takes a look back at the Polo Grounds.
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| | Be my Valentine
02/13/2008
Do they still exchange Valentine’s Day cards in school? I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that in this new age of enlightenment when every child apparently wins an award in every competition, the practice has either been discarded or drastically rev
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| | Campaigning for Herbert Hoover
01/23/2008
Being a political buff I’ve been watching the Republican and Democratic primaries with the same intense interest as a football fan watching the playoffs and wondering who is going to make it to the Super Bowl.
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| | Don't look it up, Google it
01/02/2008
I know I write a lot about “the good old days,” but the truth is, of course, that they weren’t necessarily always that good and, for that matter, many things today are both better and easier. Consider, the search for knowledge.
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