Incredibly bent Hate to be keep complaining about this, but it’s getting really tough filling this space when all the news is about one thing and all the news is bad. I’ve been looking for alternatives for this column space in the interest of keeping the three people who read it entertained. I’ve suggested that […]
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Coronavirus has turned ordinary Americans into snitches
The snitch culture is a side effect that is far more terrible than anything coronavirus could ever do to us.
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Mark LaFlamme: Now we have to worry about murder hornets?
Murder hornets! All right, dawgs. That’s it. I’m out. If you need me, I’ll be reporting from our bureau in northern Canada, close to the Arctic, where it’s too cold for any insect, let alone a gigantic, belligerent hornet with a three-inch stinger. I mean, seriously, 2020? It’s like somebody tapped into my own personal […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Fun in the produce section
Masque of the dread shopping trip So, we’ll all be required to wear masks now when we’re out shopping for bacon, cucumbers, American cheese and whatever else was on that stupid list my wife gave me but which I totally lost when I stopped to pet a stray dog. It’s really a shame that Halloween […]
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Mark LaFlamme: The ‘new normal’: Covering crime is now a lonely business
Complain all you want that people aren’t complying with the lingering stay-at-home orders, but that hasn’t been my experience at all. If good old-fashioned police drama in the streets isn’t enough to bring them out, I don’t imagine anything will.
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Mark LaFlamme: Where are the snack settings on Zoom?
Alone again (naturally) So, I logged into Zoom on Tuesday for the weekly Sun Journal meeting. Got the camera adjusted just so. Tested my mic by blowing on it and muttering “Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?” like all the professionals do. Rubbed the cowlicks out of my hair and made sure the crack pipe […]
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Fuzzy wunnit! And other thoughts on coffee
I could see the look of horror in my wife’s face the second I crawled out of bed at the crack of noon. “Now, you mustn’t panic,” she said, easing herself to relative safety on the other side of the kitchen island. “Above all, you’ve got to stay calm.” “Whazza?” I babbled. It’s how I […]
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Talk of the Town: Such sweet sorrow
Teens flee shelter to elope I was kind of swept up in the romance of this news, but if we’re honest with ourselves, we all knew it would never work out. Not these days. Take heart, young lovers. If Romeo and Juliette had lived in the age of surveillance cameras, they would have gotten nowhere, […]
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‘Utter chaos:’ Dispatchers, fire crews in the teeth of a rampaging storm
Dispatchers and firefighters working together in a rampaging beast of a springtime storm.
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The price of freedom: The Covid-19 measures are only temporary. Right?
“The virus is harmful, but the destruction of rights is fatal.” Edward Snowden. “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stomping down on a human face – forever.” – George Orwell, “1984.” I’m having trouble sleeping these days. My nights are vexed by bad dreams. My days, too. The worst of […]