Water is serious business, here in Dallas. Not that we are always facing shortages, although that does happen from time to time, but because the management and distribution of said commodity is central to a decent existence in our state. Otherwise, things die, and there is bitterness. You see, it gets rather hot here in...
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Recently, there has been a lot of screaming about “health care”.  Actually, this is a misnomer.  What people are screaming about isn’t “care,” it’s insurance.  It seems that the majority of people these days have decided that the two terms are the same, but as far as this granny sees it, they couldn’t be...
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When I was 18, and just out of high school, I was still in the closet and I had landed the butchest of jobs – retail associate in the china department at Macy’s. I spent my days matching china and silver for eager brides to be, and I don’t know, I guess after all that...
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Lori wrote her final Cruisin’ the Hood profile last week, so that must be why she all of a sudden changed that one policy we had around here, the one where she was the only editor allowed to drive the GayMobile. Yep, last Saturday morning she just tossed me the keys and...
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Oliver Hardy was always blaming Stan Laurel for their troubles. But, of course, it took the both of them to bungle their way into the slapstick fiascos they were famous for. Which reminds me of the United States’ immigration policy toward Mexico. To hear almost any member of the administration or Congress...
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