Dusty Nix
If we think this is OK, we're the problem
It's the kind of story that ought to make every American's blood boil. It apparently doesn't, which is why such reprehensible authoritarian abuse will likely go unchecked.
Dusty Nix
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DUSTY NIX
‘Sucker Index’ shows underside of state-run gaming
This is the side of the lottery business everybody knows about, but you won’t see it on those clever ads with people sipping fruity umbrella drinks on the private island they got by hitting the right six numbers.
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DUSTY NIX
Some preseason reflections on The Ted
Baseball is still more than a month away, but it’s never too early to start thinking and writing about it. Actually this isn’t so much about baseball as about a baseball place and a baseball person.
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DUSTY NIX
Just who does The Donald think ‘we’ are?
There’s an ancient chestnut of a joke that everybody above a certain age has known for years.
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DUSTY NIX
Our precious freedom of stupid, tawdry speech
Last weekend, somewhere between another round of Falconless NFL playoffs and “Big Bang” reruns, a gravelly voice came from the TV set reciting lines from Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
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DUSTY NIX
Thanks, and pre-emptive apologies, to all our sponsors
Over the Christmas weekend, our college-age daughter got out a vintage VHS tape we had recorded in her childhood of “I Love Lucy” episodes on Nick at Nite.
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DUSTY NIX
A law many would support, and frequently violate
Maybe this is what they call “cognitive dissonance.” Or maybe it’s just plain old hypocrisy. But up to a fairly obvious point, the proposed law against using cell phones while driving is something nobody can rationally or credibly dispute.
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DUSTY NIX
Merry Christmas, Cratchit -- time to pay your gruel tax
Come on, Georgia Republicans. Let’s hear some of that righteous conservative indignation about “redistribution of wealth.” I dare you.
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O Lord, deliver us from the presumptively devout
Count me among those pulling for Tim Tebow. Frankly, I don’t think the former University of Florida star now playing for the Denver Broncos has much of a chance at long-term stardom in the NFL, at least not as a quarterback. But right now he’s winning, and he’s exciting, and...
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DUSTY NIX
You say you want a revolution? It’s in your pocket
Not long ago a friend made an interesting observation over the poker table: He said the most significant technological advance of his lifetime might well be the iPod.


