LET’S GET IT RIGHT ON 9/11
On September 11, 2007, it will be have been six years since the terrorist attacks.
Call me picky, but can we please not hear that date referred to in speech as “nine one one”?
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NEW MONOPOLIES
I never thought I’d say it, but I’m starting to miss the cable companies.
Whipping boys don’t grow on trees, you know.
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OPEN MIKE NIGHT AT TOWN MEETING
Q. What did the Canada goose say at Town Meeting?
A. I just flew in from the Common, and are my wings tired!
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SUPPORTING THE TROOPS?
As we approach another Memorial Day with our country at war, it will be interesting to watch the attendance at events around the country. We often hear from those in the anti-war ranks that they oppose the war but “support the troops.” And yet, when I attended last November’s Veterans’ Day observance in my hometown of Wakefield, Massachusetts, the level of support that I saw for our troops and for our veterans in general was disappointing at best.
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GRADUATION SPEECH, 2006
Well, that time of year is once more upon us, and again my commencement day speech has been written, re-written, polished and rehearsed. I am, in short, prepared to impart the following pearls of wisdom to any class of graduates at any school that will have me.
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WAS JANEANE GAROFALO HERE?
Wakefield Tonight, 20 Years Later
I know what got me thinking about “Wakefield Tonight,” the weekly live cable TV comedy/variety show that I produced on Wakefield Public Access Television twenty years ago, from late 1985 through the end of 1986.
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CAT TRAINING
It is generally believed that dogs are easier to train than cats. That’s probably true if you are looking for a pet to fetch the newspaper or sit up and beg. For complex reasons of evolution and breeding, dogs are by nature more eager to please than cats are.
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Mark Sardella 