ARTICLES The Glory Days are Over Yep. It’s finally happened. Five decades. Half a century. The Big Five-Oh. Last week I punched the clock on “middle age” and crossed the threshold of that final decline that ends… well, we all know where it ends. No sense getting morbid about it. I remember back in ’79 when my dad reached the same hallowed plateau, how much teasing I heaped upon him. Boy, did I have fun pointing out every gray hair (where there was hair), the thickening midriff, and those wonderful “senior moments.” Oh, how the worm has turned. [READ MORE] Camping with the Missus Summer affords men the opportunity to combine two of their favorite pastimes into one fun-filled week: marriage and camping. Hey, it’s no fun to rough it in one of the area’s many fine parks without someone there to prepare breakfast while you’re off trekking through the woods in search of Bigfoot. Obviously, bringing your mate along necessitates a change in plans to a certain extent. Now, you must bring two sets of underwear, not just the one that would have suited you just fine all week long (after all, if you’re going to be in the woods with the game, you might as well smell a bit gamey yourself). You must also add to your “must bring” list sundries such as soap, toothbrush, and toothpaste. Women? Their lists are definitely different. While I did go camping with my entire family exactly once many, many years ago, I base this claim on a new piece of information. Just last week, a co-worker found a “camp shopping list” dropped by some unsuspecting woman. [READ MORE] What's In a Name? Image is everything… at least in the world of marketing. And that’s why I’m stumped as to how Ford Motor Company let a real doozey of a name slip past their PR people. I was watching the International Car Show a few weeks back, when a new Ford concept car was shown. Not only was it ugly, its name left quite a bit to be desired. Called the SYNus (pronounced SIN ewe ess), I wondered if Ford was making some type of comment about America’s morality. But when the name flashed across the screen, it jumped out at me as SINUS. Just imagine calling your local repair shop, should Ford stick with this name. [READ MORE] . American Courts Fail Terri Schiavo Terri Schiavo is dead… and America should hang her head in shame. Long before the court ordered her feeding tube removed for the final time in order to euthanize Terri—what other word fits here besides, perhaps, murder—this entire nightmare could have and should have been stopped based solely on two time-honored words in American jurisprudence: reasonable doubt. Suspected double-murderer O.J. Simpson walks the fairways of golf courses across the nation today because of reasonable doubt. “If the glove doesn’t fit,” intoned lawyer Johnny Cochran, “you must acquit.” And what of Terri? [READ MORE] .

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