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Category Archives: Political Correctness

One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of Children and My Eight Minutes of Fame

October 21, 2018

Forty-two years ago this month, our first book: One Potato, Two Potato: The Secret Education of American Children was published by …

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This Is The Day The Lord Has Made. Let Us Rejoice And Be Glad In It. Psalm 118:24

September 23, 2018

FIRST CUP OF COFFEE After the sun was up and my coffee drunk, I checked my favorite blogs. Alas, the …

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How We Learned To Be Snobs

August 31, 2018

Snobbery is the basic cause of our nation’s present troubles. Sadly, we have been encouraging it for many years, I …

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Dumb and Dumber and Kipling

July 23, 2018

First Cup of Coffee I have done a lot of dumb things in my 87 years, especially when I was in …

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Flying Backwards by Herbert Knapp
Beating a Dead Stick by Herbert Knapp
Did You See This? by Herbert Knapp
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Miracle on Fourth Street
One Potato, Two Potato
Red, White and Blue Paradise

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