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  • A Double Standard?

    In South Florida you can ostensibly get fired for marrying someone in the porn industry. Scott Janke was fired “without cause” for just that. In the same way he’s been for years in both Florida and Alaska, he was the town manager of Fort Myers Beach, a town of about 6500. Last October he married…

  • Adjusting Our Priorities

    California’s $26 billion budget deficit has been well publicized. It’s being resolved by cutting many programs. Most of the cuts affect education, the elderly and the disabled, low income people like home health aides and people on MediCal. $1.2 billion is also to be cut from prisons. Some of this includes releasing low priority offenders…

  • On Valuing Life and Death

    Sir Edward Downes, the well-known British conductor, and his wife Joan flew to Switzerland recently, registered at an assisted suicide clinic, paid the $6,000 and some fee, drank a white liquid and died. Joan was 74 and had terminal cancer. He was 85 with failing eye sight and hearing and though he had no terminal…

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