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A couple of months ago, I was shredding a bunch of old material. I found an annual summary of my expenses on my first airplane, a 1965...

I still remember a skit I saw on the old "Dean Martin" TV show in the '60s. Dean and another man (George Jessel?) were dressed as...

Certainly true. But the *Agencies* involved were dissolved...those specific Federal programs were dismantled, the bureaucracy broken...

Whole lot of depression-era stuff from the '30s. Civilian Conservation Corps, for one. Civil Works Administration, Works Progress...

Very true... just about the definition of capitalism. The question is whether such action is good for society as a whole. The...

Little wooden cars? Pfffftttt..... Similar to the Pinewood Derby, scouts would take a block of balsa and carve a "rocket," with a...

As long as long-term effects are understood. Cutting the budget by ~50% sounds good, but if it's only executing 33% of its needed...

Two landlines, one listed, the other not. Give the listed one out freely...don't answer it, just let it go to an answering machine...

I get calls all the time asking if I want to sell my property on West Street. I tell them I don't own property on West Street. It's...

Having worked at a company using a new-to-me technology where we started working remotely first and eventually got an office, I can say...

Lowes. Intermatic Model ST01 Self-Adjusting Wall Switch Timer. They're $56 on Amazon. It's kind of complicated to set up, but works...

The one I remember the most was a dusk-to-dawn Clint Eastwood marathon. Me and a buddy had early Willys Jeeps, we took the tops down...

Cars with headlights out. Sure, you see it occasionally, today. But not to the degree it was in the '60s. Haven't replaced a...

But it's the rich people who are going to work for DOGE for free that *own* those office buildings. Of course they're not going to...

Used to pay $1.25 for a haircut. Twenty-five cents per side. :) Ron Wanttaja