A blog by Tom Sheepandgoats (aka Tom Harley)
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Who’s Messing with Charlie Brown’s Christmas!?
Two dogs are pecking away on their keyboards, very intense. One says to the other, with much enthusiasm, “On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog!” Yeah! That’s the trouble with the internet. You never quite know where anything is coming from. A laureate or a liar? A psalmist or a sorehead? A philanthropist or a philanderer? It’s hard to tell. Maybe that’s why…
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Jim Boeheim and Joe Paterno
By now, Joe Paterno must be down at the community center, spending his days over hands of euchre and cups of coffee with the other geezers. A month ago he was head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions, but no more. His downfall was sudden and spectacular. I thought he got a raw deal and said so last post. Having got that off my chest,…
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JoePa Gets Fired
You watch. Now that they've canned Joe Paterno, they'll pull the statue down at Penn State. And once they do, moralizing media folk will up and stomp all over it, just like the Iraqis did to Saddam Hussein. What is it that rankles me about Penn State firing the 84 year old Nittany Lions head coach? Why should it even register? I don't know anything about college…
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Inside Job ….the Movie
“Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Matt Damon wants to interview me. ME! He'll autograph one of his pictures, and (blush) he'll probably want one of my own. After all, he's reached the top of his field and I've reached the top of mine.” But wait! Matt Damon is interviewer for a movie called Inside Job. About root causes of the 2008 financial collapse! Aren't…
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Why do Bad Things Happen? Revisted
Sometimes it is necessary to “Skip a bit, brother.” This is what the Monty Python monk said to his fellow who was getting bogged down in the Book of Armaments. Same here. You may have to skip a bit because this is a very undisciplined post. Fortunately, I’ve divided it into three sections to make that easier to do. Skip right to section 3 for…
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“Because Then You Will Find the Culprits”
In late 2008, trashing bankers was the way to go, what with the huge economic breakdown….a breakdown which has lately rekindled, this time with Europe the flashpoint. I have no great love for bankers, so I hopped aboard. “Hi. We're speaking today about a group of people no one likes,” I began my house-to-house presentation. “Bankers.” The householder replied: “I'm a banker.” “No, no, no,…
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“Mentally Diseased” and Political Correctness
You know, Joel Engardio's words seem more prescient each day. I wrote once that he was an apologist for Jehovah's Witnesses. He wrote back to say he wasn't. Still, his words seem more relevant with each passing day. Through his film KNOCKING, Mr. Engardio offers Jehovah’s Witnesses as an excellent example, perhaps our last hope, of how groups with strongly polarized ideas can yet coexist…