Fandango’s Flashback Friday — May 19th It is four years old and could have been written yesterday. Amazing, isn’t it? One of the iconic scenes in the movie Star Wars, the first one. Episode 4. “A New Hope” is where Obi-Wan… Read More ›
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THE STUPID IS STRONG IN THIS COUNTRY – By TOM CURLEY
A Friday Flashback on Saturday One of the iconic scenes in the movie Star Wars, the first one. Episode 4. “A New Hope” is where Obi-Wan Kanobi is taking Luke Skywalker and his two droids R2D2 and C3PO into town… Read More ›
THE ENEMY OF IGNORANCE – RICH PASCHALL
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all… Read More ›
STANDING ON THE ACHING SHOULDERS OF THE PAST – Marilyn Armstrong
Don’t you absolutely love pithy quotes? They always get me thinking either because I agree with it, or because I don’t. Today I went wandering down the mental pathways of history because someone repeated something I’ve heard a million times… Read More ›
THE STUPID IS STRONG IN THIS COUNTRY – By TOM CURLEY
One of the iconic scenes in the movie Star Wars, the first one. Episode 4. “A New Hope” is where Obi-Wan Kanobi is taking Luke Skywalker and his two droids R2D2 and C3PO into town and they are stopped by… Read More ›
THE ALLURE OF THE UNKNOWN – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Unknown I got a note from a reader about an article I wrote more than five years ago about blood types. I’m a B+ from an O+ mother and an AB+ father, which cannot, in theory,… Read More ›
STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES – BY TOM CURLEY
Stupid is as stupid does. The line comes from the movie Forrest Gump. It’s what Forest’s mother always told him when people would make fun of him for being … well … Forrest Gump. The thing is, I never really… Read More ›
ALL YOU CAN DO IS LAUGH
The other night, we were watching Trevor Noah on The Daily Show. He was going through the résumé of Mike Flynn, ex-general and current conspiracy theory tweeter who was fired (by Obama) from his Pentagon job for incompetence but is the… Read More ›
DOOMED? PROVE ME WRONG!
My mother was deeply cynical. She considered herself an atheist, but I think it was more that she felt God had done such a crappy job, he didn’t deserve worship. I knew a lot of the experiences that had made her… Read More ›
QUOTING THE QUOTE
Since pretty much everyone has a favorite quote, I’m happy to tell you mine. It is both funny and a good reminder to not always assume that someone is out to get me. Never attribute to malice that which is… Read More ›
LOVING HISTORY
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. ” ― Michael Crichton “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” ― Mark Twain “History, like… Read More ›
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