Saturday, March 31, 2018

Need a Gun? Print One.

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Republic of Doyle is a lightweight Canadian "comedy/mystery" television series that was filmed ...
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Friday, March 30, 2018

Good Guys Win Pair of Epic Twitter Battles

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Twitter is one place where the fun never stops. Senator Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat from Illinois and ...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Psychos with Guns Impact School Curriculum

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by Pa Rock Former School Principal I remember a time nearly forty years go when, as a principal in a large rural high school, I suspende...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Trump's Mueller Options

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The New York Times , the venerable "Old Gray Lady" of journalism and certainly one of Donald Tru...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Sometimes It Takes a Kid to Kick Down a Barricade

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist This past weekend young people and their allies from across America took to the streets to clamor for more...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Monday's Poetry: "The Escape of the Old Grey Squirrel"

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by Pa Rock Poetry Appreciator This coming Sunday is Easter, and I had in mind to share a poem about Easter in this space - but, alas, I ...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

Century Link Pulls a Fast One

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by Pa Rock Aggrieved Consumer For the past several years I have been trying to ween myself off of public communication utilities.  I qui...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

Students March for Their Lives - and Ours

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist According to a news article featured two days ago on HuffPost , at least seventy-three teenagers have been...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Pa Rock Leaves His Sixties Behind

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by Pa Rock Septuagenarian  Ten years ago today was Easter Sunday, one of the earliest on record.  I remember that day well because it wa...
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Thursday, March 22, 2018

In Support of the Proper Use of Language

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by Pa Rock Lifetime Learner I went to a very small high school, but have never felt disadvantaged by that circumstance.   The students i...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Trump Congratulates Putin for his Successful Assault on Democracy

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Vladimir Putin easily won re-election for a six-year term to the Russian presidency last week, running bas...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

It's Spring?

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by Pa Rock Seasonal Rambler Yesterday I ran into an old friend and we exchanged banal pleasantries for a few minutes.  During our mutual...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Monday's Poetry: "Bulletproof Teen"

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by Pa Rock Poetry Appreciator A group of scared and angry young people in Florida have managed to start a political conversation on guns...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Time Marches On, and So Do Old Politicians

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist I've never made a secret of my growing disdain for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.  Having been in...
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Saturday, March 17, 2018

Trump Moves to Wreck a Retirement

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Anyone who has ever held a job from which they planned to retire knows the knot that forms in the belly fr...
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Friday, March 16, 2018

Bone Music

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by Pa Rock Reader Christopher Rice published his first best-selling novel, A Density of Souls, in 2000 when he was just twenty-two-years...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Congress Ignores Students at Its Own Peril

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Yesterday students nationwide walked out of class and took to the streets with a simple message:  they wan...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Enthusiastic Protesters Welcome Trump to La La Land

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Air Force One grunted and groaned and somehow managed to drag its corpulent freeloader all the way out to ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Getting Up to Speed on Twitter

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by Pa Rock Citizen Tweeter While I have been a Twitter user for nearly nine years now, I will readily admit that I am far from proficie...
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Monday, March 12, 2018

Monday's Poetry: "Sweet Baby James"

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by Pa Rock Old Gray Typist A friend commented to me yesterday that March seems to be a month of birthdays, to which I suggested that per...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Jericho

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by Pa Rock TV Junkie Jericho, a small town of a couple of thousand people in northwest Kansas, was under the political control of the Gr...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

The Dirty Dozen Democrats

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist While the country is focused on the dangerous antics of Donald Trump - as well as slow-to-no movement in C...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Florida Legislator Fixing to get Spanked

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Florida State Representative Elizabeth Porter, a Republican, is mad as hell and she isn't going to tak...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Learning to Love Aldi

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by Pa Rock Consumer The small Ozark community in which I live is home to twelve thousand people, and it serves as the shopping mecca for...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Jeff Sessions: Hypocrisy Is Thy Footstool

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist The rights of states to exert their independence from the dictates of the federal government reaches an al...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Members of Congress Wallow in Free Public Housing

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist My congressman, Republican Jason Smith of Missouri's 8th district, touts himself as a simple farmer an...
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Monday, March 5, 2018

Monday's Poetry: "The Peacock Dance"

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by Pa Rock Poetry Appreciator Spring is quickly becoming evident at Rock's Roost, and with its arrival the behavior of the animals i...