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One Last Word: Signs
From Mark Blackmon | Part of the One Last Word series | 04:56
Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. Or just plain wrong. Commentator Mark Blackmon found just such a sign recently for his local Oktoberfest.
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Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. Or just plain wrong. Commentator Mark Blackmon found just such a sign recently for his local Oktoberfest that he thought was funny and weird and wrong. His original intent was a piece poking fun at it — only to discover while writing it that he was the one who was “just plain wrong.”
One Last Word: Signs
From Mark Blackmon | Part of the One Last Word series | 04:56
Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. Or just plain wrong. Commentator Mark Blackmon found just such a sign recently for his local Oktoberfest.
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- One Last Word: Signs
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Signs. They’re everywhere, but do we ever stop to examine them? Probably not, unless there’s something about them that one finds funny. Or weird. Or just plain wrong. Commentator Mark Blackmon found just such a sign recently for his local Oktoberfest that he thought was funny and weird and wrong. His original intent was a piece poking fun at it — only to discover while writing it that he was the one who was “just plain wrong.”
One Last Word: News
From Mark Blackmon | Part of the One Last Word series | 05:12
News. Where do you get your news? More importantly, who do you trust to deliver that news? Commentator Mark Blackmon says he's given up newspapers and TV news for comedy programming. He says it just seems saner.
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News. Where do you get your news? More importantly, who do you trust to deliver that news? Well, according to the Gallup organization's annual Confidence in Institutions survey, no more than 25 percent of Americans say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers and television news. Where does that leave us? Commentator Mark Blackmon says he's given up newspapers and TV news for comedy programming. He says it just seems saner.
One Last Word: Rural
From Mark Blackmon | Part of the One Last Word series | 05:14
Something seems afoot out there; a new movement where gay men are moving to the country. And becoming best-selling authors and reality TV show hosts. Commentator Mark Blackmon says he's not altogether sure he's comfortable with the whole idea, but he does think that the Fabulous Beekman Boys' cheese is pretty terrific.
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Something seems afoot out there; a new movement where gay men are moving to the country. And becoming best-selling authors and reality TV show hosts. Commentator Mark Blackmon says he's not altogether sure he's comfortable with the whole idea, but he does think that the Fabulous Beekman Boys' cheese is pretty terrific.
One Last Word: Garbage
From Mark Blackmon | Part of the One Last Word series | 02:52
Garbage is not generally the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about fuel sources. However, commentator Mark Blackmon says that where he lives, garbage may be the next great, green thing.
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Garbage is not generally the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about fuel sources. However, commentator Mark Blackmon says that where he lives, garbage may be the next great, green thing.
One Last Word: Goodbye
From Mark Blackmon | Part of the One Last Word series | 04:58
After 54 years, the soap opera "As The World Turns" has come to the end of its run. A passing worthy of note? Commentator Mark Blackmon thinks so. He wonders what happens to society when we cease to tell our stories.
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After 54 years, the soap opera "As The World Turns" has come to the end of its run. A passing worthy of note? Commentator Mark Blackmon thinks so. He wonders what happens to society when we cease to tell our stories.
One Last Word — Tomatoes
From Mark Blackmon | Part of the One Last Word series | 03:25
There's a dish of small tomatoes sitting in my refrigerator this afternoon. I think they are the last ones I'm going to get this year.
I don't like this time of year much. This "not-quite-still-summer-but-not-yet-autumn," says commentator Mark Blackmon, who waxes a bit melancholic over what may be his last home-grown tomatoes of the year as summer drains away.
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There's a dish of small tomatoes sitting in my refrigerator this afternoon. I think they are the last ones I'm going to get this year.
I don't like this time of year much. This "not-quite-still-summer-but-not-yet-autumn," says commentator Mark Blackmon, who waxes a bit melancholic over what may be his last home-grown tomatoes of the year as summer drains away.
One Last Word: Rights
From Mark Blackmon | Part of the One Last Word series | 04:08
After the news that the Senate had not passed legislation to end "don't ask don't tell," commentator Mark Blackmon decided that it was time to remind himself — and others — of the language of the founding documents of the U.S.
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After the news that the Senate had not passed legislation to end "don't ask don't tell," commentator Mark Blackmon decided that it was time to remind himself — and others — of the language of the founding documents of the U.S.
One Last Word: Out
From Mark Blackmon | Part of the One Last Word series | 03:15
Commentary on the recent series of videos being uploaded to YouTube in the wake of a round of gay teen suicides.
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Commentary on the recent series of videos being uploaded to YouTube in the wake of a round of gay teen suicides.