Sunday, April 27, 2008

You'll Never Hear This on NPR

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Mack Hall You’ll Never Hear This on NPR In an unsettled time when some discount stores will sell a customer only 100 pounds of rice a week (...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Art by Kennkarte

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Mack Hall The Denver Center Theatre Company, founded in 1978 by visionaries seeing the possibilities in an abandoned downtown stage, has enj...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Conscription? Armchair Heroes First!

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Mack Hall A surprising number of people – people who are never going to have to risk dying in the dust of Iraq – are proposing a return to m...
Sunday, April 6, 2008

Down With Big 'Phone!

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Mack Hall Studies show (hey, if radio personalities boasting questionable doctorates can resort to such vapid lead-ins as “studies show…,” w...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Versin' on th' Chain Gang

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Mack Hall A woman in California has started a company specializing in greeting cards for prisoners. Let us unlock the possibilities, and loo...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Typical White Passport

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Mack Hall The typical American can only be deeply offended and hurt by the insensitivity of the State Department in snooping through the pas...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Saturday Morning Thoughts Over Coffee With Other Old Geezers

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Mack Hall Saturday Morning Thoughts Over Coffee With Other Old Geezers If American money is so worthless, why does our government tak...
Sunday, March 2, 2008

Change. Maybe

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Mack Hall Downtown Beaumont is a great place for photography. Many buildings there are survivors of a happier architectural age and display...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Humans -- Chock Full of Vitamins and Other Essential Nutrients

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Mack Hall In Hawaii a tiger took a walk on the mild side last week, escaping its catdominium and strolling around the human parts of the zoo...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

House, Nursing Assistant

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Mack Hall House is a reasonably intelligent television show featuring the eponymous lead as a Byronic hero who is never sacked despite his ...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Jesus' Carbon Footprint

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Mack Hall The (Anglican) bishops of London and Liverpool want you to cut back on carbon for Lent. Senator Obama’s supporters, shoaling from ...
Sunday, February 3, 2008

A Mugging in South Park

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Mack Hall Last week we learned that 21% of Lamar University students are working their way through school; the other 79% voted to spend some...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

Blame the Welder

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Mack Hall The first smoke had barely risen from a famous no-tell in Las Vegas before someone said that the fire was probably caused by – sur...
Sunday, January 20, 2008

Huckabee and the Squirrel

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Mack Hall Mike Huckabee ate Rocky the Flying Squirrel! Okay, he really didn’t, but he did state while campaigning in Las Vegas that when he ...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Chariots of Plastic

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Mack Hall Seventy-something years after Germany invented The People’s Car, India has reinvented it. The Tata Group (I’m not sure what a grou...
Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Is Primary Voting Primarily for Primates?

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Mack Hall The non-system of primaries and caucussing is fascinating, possibly because, like John Kerry’s self-invented war record, it is a g...
Thursday, January 3, 2008

White Lung Syndrome

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Mack Hall Trying to understand the writers’ strike is genuinely problematic. There are only about 10,000 entertainment writers along the Ne...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Send Out the Clowns

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Mack Hall Send out the clowns. No, this is not a piece about the candidates for the presidency. Imagine, if you will, a film in black-and-w...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

It's Not Over Until January 6th

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Mack Hall Every year some folks take up their crayons and write querulously to the newspapers to demand that Christ be returned to Christmas...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Drug Testing at Valley Forge

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Mack Hall Last week the most recent drug scandal took everyone’s attention away from lead-painted Chinese Christmas toys, and no wonder. W...