Bus Monitor Millionaire

Posted on August 6, 2012 by B. Trout

How would you like to earn $70,300.00 a minute?  If you’re as famous and talented as Beyonce Knowles or Mariah Carrey, you’re in that category.  It’s gonna take some time, hard work and talent . . . or you could sit your fat ass on a school bus for 10 minutes and get orally Continue reading →

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Go Green!

Posted on August 4, 2012 by B. Trout

Say “Go green!”  Say it again, “Go green!”  Now say it like you mean it . . . “GO GREEN!”  Feel better?  Continue reading →

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Bully for you!

Posted on July 31, 2012 by B. Trout

There’s a bully for you, a bully for me, and you and I are a bully for someone else.  Bullying is getting a lot of attention these days, so much so, I feeling a little bullied about it.  Continue reading →

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NCAA – Nazi Collegiate Athletic Association

Posted on July 27, 2012 by B. Trout

The Holocaust never happened, slavery was non-existent in the U.S., and the NASA moon-landing was faked.  There are certain groups of people who attempt to rewrite history by denying events that don’t fit their beliefs or conscience.  It is a  repugnant practice Continue reading →

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Whatever Happened to Nash Bridges?

Posted on July 24, 2012 by B. Trout

Remember disco music, Reaganomics, and the Cabbage Patch Kids?  In a decade that began with the murder of the man who championed “Give Peace a Chance,” the technology and the economic policies of the 1980’s strangled creativity and imagination.  A glimmer of hope arose one starry evening in September 1984 when the world first heard the beat of Jan Hammer’s unique, synthesized Miami Vice theme.  The world was introduced to the character of Sonny Crockett, an ambitious, hardcore vice cop with a bad attitude.  Although actor Don Johnson Continue reading →

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Gee Willickers!

Posted on July 17, 2012 by B. Trout

I used the word “gee willickers” in a recent article and when read by my daughter, she suggested I remove the word, as members of her generation (poor old girl is turning 30 this year!) wouldn’t understand the meaning or significance.  I heeded her Continue reading →

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And Justice For All!

Posted on July 14, 2012 by B. Trout

There’s an age-old adage in football that goes  “What we do here, what we say here, stays here when we leave here.”  The sunny side of this old saw makes perfect sense, as players are Continue reading →

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The Wizard of Floz

Posted on July 9, 2012 by B. Trout

When I was a little boy, it was a big treat to run down to the corner store and buy a Three Musketeer bar and a bottle of Coca Cola.  Continue reading →

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Shave and a haircut, two bits!

Posted on July 4, 2012 by B. Trout

Hair, hair, long beautiful hair!  We all love hair!  There’s something inherently masculine about hair, or even the lack thereof, but hair is incredibly feminine also.  Hair is versatile, varied and beautiful in the right places and kept in the right way.  Who’s more handsome than a young man with a thick frock of hair, or a middle-aged man sporting a carefully trimmed, salt-and-pepper beard?  On the feminine side, it’s the long, flowing strands or carefully braided tresses that divert our attention.  Yes, hair can be a beautiful and desirable thing.  But whether you’re blonde, Continue reading →

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The Undiscovered Country

Posted on June 27, 2012 by B. Trout

Klingon Chancellor Gorkon lifts his glass of Romulan ale in the air, looks across the table at carefully placed Star Fleet and Romulan dignitaries and toasts, “To the undiscovered country!”  After a short pause and bewildered looks, he exclaims, “To the future!” Continue reading →

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