Heirlooms are wonderful things. If you’re lucky you may find that Grandma’s brooch is worth $100,000 on Antiques Roadshow. Or maybe it’s just a keepsake that was passed down through the generations, with no value beyond sentiment. I have a number of keepsakes passed down to me from my ...
We have had a tradition in America, not always but mostly, of trying to avoid the perils of businesses that get too big. The most prominent example in our history was likely the passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act which became law in 1890. Though its primary target, twenty years later, became John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company—its original passage resulted from a growing public concern about the concentration of power in big business, the elimination of competition and the resultant driving up of costs to everyone else. Today, we are seeing big business on a new and ...
There has been a bit of a buzz since President Donald Trump decided to make an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America. Some hard core Trump supporters have been given to calling those who take issue with the renaming of one of the five Great Lakes as woke, Libtards, Dumbocrats ...
It’s no secret Dunkirk’s veterans have spoken out against building the proposed amphitheater in Memorial Park. Many think it will hinder the purpose of Memorial Park taking away from those who have fought and died for our country. It is hard for some to understand how the city can take away from the honor of our veterans when Point Gratiot is readily available. Ample parking, access to city utilities, public bathrooms, and an unobstructed view of Lake Erie seem to be underutilized. “The Point” is that building the amphitheater at The Point Gratiot is an opportunity for the ...
Absurd! Ludicrous! Preposterous! Ridiculous! Beyond the realm of believability! Descriptions of the society depicted in the movie, “Idiocracy”? Let’s reconsider that conclusion. When that film was released, it was 2006, only 20 years ago. It purported to show a society in the year 2505, one that had devolved so alarmingly that it was unrecognizable fiction to viewers at that time. In Wikipedia, the movie is described as “a satirical science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Judge that follows an average man who wakes up 500 years in the future to find a devolved, ...
Nin Privitera, former Fredonia resident, offers some offbeat takes on recent headlines: — Boy oh boy, that trade war between the U.S. and Canada is really getting ugly. President Trump may rename Lake Ontario to Lake America. Oh,oh wait until Trump hears about Canadaway Creek. — If things really get out of hand with Canada, rumors are that Trump may apply the knockout blow; a 400% tariff on hockey pucks. — A Chinese robot named Lightning just ran a 100-meter dash in a new world record time. Unfortunately, the stop button malfunctioned so Lightning should be pulling into Spain ...
