Insomnia Notebook
Friday, January 31, 2014

Lord Dunsany’s Old Brown Coat

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When reading about Lord Dunsany I visualized Downton Abbey , because that was the life he lived as a lord of a manor in Ireland. Beyond bein...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Mort Drucker, Mad genius of caricature

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As described in a Wikipedia biography, cartoonist Mort Drucker is considered “Number one in a field of one” by Nick Meglin, Mad editor. Dru...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

The saddest story

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On January 16, 2014, Lindon, Utah police officer Joshua Boren, 34, shot and killed his wife, Kelly, 32, his mother-in-law Marie King, 55, an...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

Out of this world

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 An ad for a book in the December 2013 Edward Hamilton catalog caught my eye. Wow! A true story of a a secret visit to an alien planet ...
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Monday, January 13, 2014

Tossing the gay marriage football around

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I t is playoff time for pro football teams, yet even before the post-season began, the football game between gay activists and the State of ...
Monday, January 06, 2014

I dream of Mitt Romney

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I woke up this morning after having an extraordinary dream about none other than last year’s losing presidential candidate . I got up and...
Saturday, January 04, 2014

Rob Rogers loves Republicans

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Rob Rogers, who has been drawing editorial cartoons since 1984, and a member of the staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette since 1993, is a...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

Bad Grandpa and the broken angel

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I 'm well aware of the old saying, “fish and visitors stink after three days.” I've been a visitor in Pennsylvania for eight days ...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

How the gay Grinch stole Utah bigots' Christmas

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A story in the Salt Lake Tribune for Tuesday, December 24, means a great Christmas for gay people and their friends, families and supporter...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Only in Utah

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Some recent stories have made the local news that remind me I live in a place which can be a world unto itself. Sometimes we in Utah are mem...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Don Martin’s Great Non-Violent Guns from Mad

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S aturday, December 14 is the one-year anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Twenty children and six adults includin...
Sunday, December 08, 2013

“I wear the chain I forged in life”

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Alec Guinness as my favorite ghost. O f all the Christmas stories I like Dickens’ A Christmas Carol the best. And of the characters i...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Where do lost things go? The Twilight Zone?

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I’ve been looking for five or six days for my eyeglasses, which have a gold-colored wire frame. They are in my house somewhere, I’m 100% ce...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Beep beep and beep beep yeah

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O bituaries for my former high school classmates are coming faster and closer together as time goes on. This obit is for one of my class...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Another voice amongst the many: remembering the JFK assassination

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A s a Baby Boomer I’m just one more of millions who remember where we were and what we were doing on that day Kennedy was killed. For th...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

The prejudiced ear

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A big murder trial wrapped up recently in Salt Lake City. It was one of those trials that capture national attention, and the November 13 e...
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Sunday, November 10, 2013

MAD History of Sex

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Mad magazine takes the whole history of sex, from Adam to now, and compresses it down to a few pages. Funny history, funny subject! Copyr...
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