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Another week, yet another act of verbal self-immolation that is absolutely and breathtakingly lacking in even a modicum of self-awareness of the blatant racism being spewed. This time, "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams finds himself square in the cross-hairs of outrage with hundreds of newspapers that syndicated/reprinted the strips dropping "Dilbert" from their funny pages. Truth be told, it was hard not to be shocked that there apparently are still hundreds of newspapers in circulation in…

Every now and then, I find myself wandering over to "The Globe and Mail" website for a bit of news from the Great White North. It seems so ironic mourning the passing of Gordon Pinsent who delightfully played Constable Benton Fraser's deceased father Robert on the series "Due South". "Due South" had the distinction of being the first Canadian-produced show to have a prime-time broadcast slot on a major American television network (CBS). It was…

For the first time in over 30 years, I found myself in a college classroom this morning to take the NC Secretary of State’s required course to become an official North Cackalacky Notary Public. The course and the examination one has to sit afterward has a reputation for being one of if not the most stringent and toughest in the nation requiring 80% as a passing score prior to being able to make application. As…

For the last few days, a Chinese balloon the size of three buses with a instrument package with solar panels dangling below it has been drifting over the continental United States and has made it's way from Montana to Missouri and is now hovering over western North Carolina. There seems to be a lot of anxiety surrounding this balloon that Beijing initially denied existed at all and then finally has admitted was their balloon but…

I know it's going to seem somewhat shocking that as much time as I've spent behind the camera lens through the years, I have rarely had any desire to be in front of one. In fact, were it not for the trove of pictures and slides I unearthed from my father's garage, there really wouldn't be all that many pictures of me in my younger days compared to how many I've taken of the kids…