Question and Answer mockery of political caucuses and figures
A humorous Q and A piece parodies Super Sunday and Super Tuesday politics. It riffs on Iowa caucuses and named figures like Elway Gephardt Hart Babbitt Kosar Williams and Williams, blending political names with pop culture references in a satirical exchange.
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When Sin is Thought of as Sinful as Doing
Dear Abby weighs in on whether lustful thoughts are as wrong as acting on them, noting that thoughts can lead to deeds but urges individuals to nip bad ideas in the bud. A second reader shares a stale attic clutter problem and Abby suggests practical steps and fire-safety checks. A third letter offers a humorous but serious “door-ectomy” consequence for a teen’s privacy interests.
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Percy Ross columns reveal humanti tarian philanthropy and reader letters
Minneapolis financier Percy Ross writes for readers about giving while alive and sharing wealth. Letters recount requests from a minister, a mother needing breast prosthesis funding, and a would be locksmith seeking a license loan. Ross replies publicly acknowledging need and offering aid where possible.
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Percy Ross
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When I Wanted a Watch and Met Time’s Tricks
A recollection of a girl’s quest for a wristwatch, the long struggle to tell time, and a marriage where the husband relies on multiple watches. The piece mocks modern timepieces as status symbols with built in extras and imagines an ultimate timepiece that does everything from blood pressure to burglar alarms.
Life of anger ends in tragedy on Interstate 77
Juan A. Reyes Jr., 26, died December 2 after being struck on Interstate 77 near East 30th Street and thrown into a Cuyahoga Community College parking lot. Police do not know why he was on the interstate or who struck him.
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Plain Dealer
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Tim Hicks
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