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1. about 6 hours ago on Moderately Confused

   You’ve a much stronger stomach than I. : )

2. about 6 hours ago on Pickles

   Will be interesting to read a reply.

3. about 7 hours ago on Frank and Ernest

   Beg to differ. There are a number of real foods that are naturally healthier than many processed foods and are not fads or gimmicks. Vegetables don’t need additives and there are many others.

   Also suggest that if companies whose products are heavily sugared would gradually over the course of several years reduce the amount of that not so healthy additive there might be an amazing improvement in the health of most Americans, especially the young.

4. about 7 hours ago on Pickles

   Suggest there are politer ways to express one’s need for clarity, especially in this friendly venue.

5. about 18 hours ago on Frazz

   Try doing a current NYT puzzle with a mind that spent its first 65 years in the 20th century, then didn’t take up puzzles again for 15+ years. By then, history had changed dramatically and the lingo of new generations was another language entirely. Thank goodness for reprints from the last half century pages, otherwise I would have no fun at all with puzzles.

6. about 18 hours ago on Non Sequitur

   He’s there to sell time shares

7. about 18 hours ago on Jeff Stahler

   There is no answer to this kind of conflict.

8. about 19 hours ago on Moderately Confused

   Our school had a great ‘industrial arts’ program that took students through all the building trades and a printing shop that included a foot operated printing press on which was printed the school newspaper. In later years, they added an automotive section, and, not surprisingly not only gained the interest of previously indifferent students but also reduced some of the discipline situations among that group. Amazing change in just one year.

9. about 19 hours ago on Frank and Ernest

   If they only carried foods that were truly healthy, they would need a lot less shelf space.

10. about 19 hours ago on Pickles

    70 years ago, at age 18, I started a job as orderly in a ‘convalescent home.’ [In that time, those were like hospices but were really places to put family members who were too great a burden for families, or in some cases, just inconvenient. Some were in there for years.]

    I walked into a ward with 12 men of varying ages and conditions, who were sitting on their beds, just looking at the floor, and, for the time I was there, most continued to do that without moving except during meals or to go to bathroom [those who could do so on their own]. I recognized men who I thought had died. To say I was shocked is to say the sun is a light.

    At that precise moment I was looking at my possible future and the next few months engraved those images into my memory. I have never forgotten that time and I still remember more of their names and faces than of the students I taught until 1997.

    So, kid, you better make good use of your brain and pay attention because you’ll get there if life allows it.