Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan In Defense of Death A recent column by David Brooks in the New York Times should be of special interest to many of our readers here at Lakeside—and for that reason we make bold to try and summarize Brooks’ outstanding article. Brooks writes about some experiences involving Richard John
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HISTORY 101 Courtesy of Hank Shiver “History is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” John Adams (1776) “Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I might say right here that this is a national loss and
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: I have been coming to this area for three winters. (Oct to Apr) I have picked up a copy of your magazine at various locations. Also enjoy it very much. You have a first-class periodical. On Sept 6th I picked up a copy where I was doing my
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Find Feathered Friends Allen C. Turner, BS. Biology MA, PhD Anthropology Feathered Serpents: Myth or Reality? All birds have feathers, mammals have fur or hair, and reptiles have scales. “But wait!” you exclaim, “what about the pangolin, a mammal with scales?” “And what about Quetzalcoatl, the feathered-serpent of Aztecan lore?” The Biologist replies, “I
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir: We picked up the March copy of your publication and were thrilled to see a quarter page ad thanking our contributors and supporters. My husband and I both remarked how generous that was of you. Imagine, then, our surprise when we saw that you printed the letter that
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The Cuban Motorcycle Policeman By Chad Olsen While in Cuba, we stayed at the Casa Dianna B&B run by Tony and Dianna. Casa Dianna is a beautiful house in an outer Havana neighborhood. It was the home of a Cuban minister, before the revolution, of course. After the revolution, the houses of the Batista
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Havoc In Motion By Jay White The Beneficent Properties of Credulity My mama is like a duck—every morning she wakes up in a brand new world—a world to which, nevertheless, she consistently adapts with grace and wonder. One time when I was stationed at Fort Bliss and Mama came to visit me, I drove
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MEDICARE ADVISORY By John DeWall I will have a table somewhere on the LCS grounds over the next several weeks where I hope to collect signatures from US citizens who qualify for Medicare (i.e. 65 years or older or on disability). Medicare does not recognize claims originating outside the US, even though private US
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Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia By Mary Anne Molinari, RN, MN, GNCS-BC When some people age and become a little forgetful, we commonly joke that they have “Old Timer’s Disease” aka Alzheimer’s Disease. If the behavior worsens we often conclude that the person must indeed have this disease. Unfortunately, there exists the idea that dementia
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WHO WAS GERTRUDE BELL —And Why Might You Want to Know? By Linda and Rob Mohr Was she “the uncrowned Queen of Iraq” whom more than any other foreigner, enabled the founding of modern of Iraq; or “…a silly chattering windbag of conceited, gushing, man-woman, rump-wagging blathering ass!” as her not un-fascinated arch-enemy Sir
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