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Allen, John's mother's name was Jackie Kukec. Maybe you did meet her. By all accounts, she was quite a gal.

Considering the fact that the woman is 82 (or thereabouts) I think she's amazing. And her campy humor is great.

My late Aunt Eleanor and Uncle Barney had an all-electric double-wide that they purchased after years in a grim farmhouse. Eleanor spared no expense when it came to decorating: She went to Montgomery Wards in Omaha, and bought big foufy drapes, tapestry printed furniture, overwrought...

John's mother was a group travel planner for Amtrak, who got hired away from Holiday Inn in the very early days of Amtrak. She worked out of the Santa Fe building in the beginning, and then out of another building in downtown Chicago later on. She also handled private car movements, so she knew...

So much for the myth of the free market.... Socialism for the rich. The rest of us are out of luck.

Terry, the appliances are pretty traditional in their musical taste. About the only stuff they wanted to listen to was the "Music for TV Dinners" disc. http://www.amazon.com/Music-TV-Dinners-Various-Artists/dp/B000000IAW

Ready for her close up.... and in her evening make-up. Truly the star of the party! Everyone was sucking up to her (but she knew what time it was)

It was standing room only tonight as the Sunbeam Automatic Control Panel made its debut in the kitchen! The crowd, while consisting largely of members of the Sunbeam family, also boasted members of such exotic clans as Saladmaster, General Electric, Oster and West Bend. Even the lovely but...

Wealthy people can have as many houses and jets and home theater systems as they want. All I'm saying is that they (and corporations) should pay a bigger chunk of the costs of running our society, since they control the society. We are, after all, all in this together. There's no such thing as...

Oh, and by the way.... If you had bothered to read that Marxist screed from Forbes, you would have learned that corporate taxes are 35% - not the "average 40%" you apparently pulled out of somewhere down south. I, Marxist/Socialist that I apparently am, would actually agree that 35% might be...

Don't forget about the Zephyrettes! There's a great website about the California Zephyr that has some personal accounts of women who worked as "Zephyrettes": Hostesses on this legendary train. All of their stories are great, but I especially like the story about Nellie O'Grady. (John worked...

Peter, you're so campy! Where DO you get your talking points from, now that Ray Cohn is dead? :-) Was it my citing an article from a magazine owned by that old "Fellow Traveler" Steve Forbes that got you all upset, or was it the assertion that everyone should pay their fair share to keep up...

Well, her husband's first name IS Evelyn..... ;-)

The reason why companies leave is not because of taxes, it's because of lower wages overseas. Interestingly enough however, when they start making shoes in China instead of Portland, the prices for the shoes don't go down, even though the production costs are much lower. In times of our...

Pullman Porters had a tough row to hoe: Up to the 50's or so, they had to sleep in the men's room in their car, and used a different color blanket than the passengers so people would know they weren't getting a blanket that had been used by a black person. They also had to pay for any breakage...

It turns out that the Schlockey Mom who is just like us wore a Valentino jacket the night of her big speech that cost $2500. I'm pretty sure they don't sell couture at Wal-Mart, so maybe Cindy lent it to her? So much for her folksy schtick. Are they so contemptuous of us that they feel they...

McCain's mother has not, to the best of my knowledge, had four bouts of cancer. Nor does she have a history of mental and emotional problems. And she doesn't have a big weird lump on the side of her face that no one wants to talk about. But other than that....

Rob and Laura Petrie

Peter, really. Marxist? How melodramatic can you get? Do you even know what a Marxist is? Which of the nine distinct schools of Marxist thought does Obama subscribe to?

For someone who was raised rather vigorously Catholic (albeit of the Jesuit variety) I was never censored in my TV viewing, or anything else, for that matter. My dad was on the library board, and made sure I had an "adult" card when I got my library card, and I have many fond memories of sitting...