Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams, letter to John Taylor (4/15/1814) This week on the Writer’s Almanac, Garrison Keillor quoted the words above by John Adams. John Adams wrote these words about democracy nearly 200 [...]
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Halloween is just two days away, so how about some questions that haunt us today. Just for fun. By the way – can you answer any of the questions? QUESTIONS THAT HAUNT US! If I have sex with a prostitute against her will, is it considered rape or shoplifting? Can you cry under water? [...]
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One of my posts last week was about our "adopted" son, Chicago Dave (Dave Kenik, to be exact). See here. As a result, one of you, my dear readers, Michelle, sent me the following note afterward: Hey Dee, I was just reading your latest blog post about your Chicago son and something struck me as [...]
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I’m missing our hummingbirds the past couple of weeks. I guess they’ve all flown south for the winter. Our bright red sugar water filled hummingbird feeder hanging from a post on the deck side of our screened in back porch has remained filled. The scraggly hibiscus "tree" next to the feeder, given to us as [...]
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One final funny one for you today. I got this one in an email, too, from a young fire-fighter friend of ours in Illinois – our "adopted" son, Chicago Dave. It’s a long story, but we met him in New Orleans one Mardi Gras holiday when I was in law school. He was down with [...]
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Keeping in line with Greg England’s post on his blog Friday, I’m citing my authorities for this post. Well . . . at least, I’m telling you where I got it. Before that – who knows. My sweet daughter-in-law, Lynn O’Neil (who also blogs and who also has tons of cute photos and videos of [...]
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Let’s have some fun today and scan through some political files . . . uh, make that "Idiot" files . . . and be glad our own gene pools are (hopefully) at least a notch above these. And, to think they walk among us and will probably vote our next president in on November 3. [...]
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I want you to leave here feeling better about yourself than when you dropped by, having either learned something new, thought about something differently or having just had a good laugh or two.
Dee Andrews, Esq.
Attorney, Former Journalist, Author
South Mississippi