Just for the Hell of It

Maybe They Should be PET&A

August 19, 2005
By Doug Thompson
Maybe They Should be PET&A

We learned long ago that PETA (People For the Ethicial Treatment of Animals) will do just about anything for publicity, even using a semi-nude model to draw attention to one of its campaigns. In Des Moines, Iowa, Katy Robertson, an actress from South Africa, posed topless in front of a sign decrying cruelty to circus...
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You ain’t saying it right

August 18, 2005
By Doug Thompson

An English professor who lives somewhere up north (New Hampshire I think) keeps sending emails complaining about my grammar. “Your improper use of the English language is a disservice to your readers,” he says. “Bad grammar is the mark of an uneducated mind.” You got that right professor. I ain’t all that well educated. Might say...
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Reason Enough

August 15, 2005
By Doug Thompson

The death of ABC News anchor Peter Jennings shines the spotlight, where it belongs, on smoking, lung cancer and the other life-robbing diseases use of tobacco can cause. Like many of my generation, I smoked as a young man. Kicked the habit nearly 40 years ago. Watched my grandfather, a lifelong smoker, die of emphysema,...
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