20070912 This week in The Tentacle

This week in The Tentacle

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Jack Molesworth touched many lives

Kevin E. Dayhoff

Ever since John E. "Jack" Molesworth, 80, a Western Maryland College graduate, accomplished Frederick and Carroll County area football coach and educator, died August 31 at Frederick Memorial Hospital from injuries from a fall, accolades and tributes have poured in from community leaders about the life accomplishments of this great man.

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Media Guru

Roy Meachum

Whatever just charges can be made of ineptness in the current White House, nobody doubts the president has displayed genius in selecting his media gurus. Whoever currently holds the job is performing in the bedazzling tradition of his predecessors.

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Monday, September 10, 2007

A Political Manifesto - Part One

Richard B. Weldon Jr.

Who am I? This is a rhetorical question, but also an important exploration of philosophy, a political self-assessment in the face of aging, maturing, and awareness.

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Friday, September 7, 2007

"Remember Me"

Roy Meachum

The realization first popped up in Rome, in 1968. An Italian-American Marine lance corporal hijacked a TWA flight in California. In what turned out to be the longest hijacking in history, Raffaele Minichiello diverted the jet to the land where he was born 20 years before. He broke the law. No question.

Halloween 2008 Nightmares

Edward Lulie III

This is over a year early but here are two separate nightmarish dreams for Halloween 2008, one for the political left and one for the political right.sweet dreams all.

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Thursday, September 6, 2007

R.I.P. Jack Molesworth

John W. Ashbury

William Shakespeare once wrote "The evil that men do lives after them, / The good is oft interred with their bones." That won't be the case with Jack Molesworth.

Michael Vick - A Perspective

Patricia A. Kelly

Make no mistake. Michael Vick was wrong. Raising dogs under cruel conditions, torturing them as they are trained to fight, killing them painfully when they fail to live up to expectations.It's wrong.

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Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Mount Airy: The Little Town That Could

Kevin E. Dayhoff

In the early morning hours of last Sunday, the town of Mount Airy was rudely awakened just past 4 A.M. to a three-alarm fire. Hardly anything strikes fear in the heart of a community as does a major fire.

The Great Barrier Reef

Tom McLaughlin

Cairns, Australia (pronounced cans), is located at the very top of the eastern coast also known as the Gold Coast. A resort town, it is the jumping off point for explorations on the Great Barrier Reef or "the reef" as known there.

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Tuesday, September 4, 2007

And Still They Go

Roy Meachum

Writing two weeks ago I listed the more prominent departures from the White House, but I strongly pointed out the men and women should not be compared to "rats deserting a sinking ship." I may have been wrong.

The Path to Change

Farrell Keough

The paradox of white blindness and an inability to acknowledge minorities as people is one of the real life problems set forth in the book White Guilt - How Blacks & Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele.

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Monday, September 3, 2007

Breaking Ground

Richard B. Weldon Jr.

Last week's mail included an invitation to a ground-breaking ceremony. This isn't a small event. This ceremony, designating the beginning of a major construction project, signals the most significant change in the history of my hometown.

The Barber of Seville

Tom McLaughlin

It's like the Grand Canyon, the Sistine Chapel, or the Madonna. You just have to see it. You can't describe it, put it on postcards or watch it on television.