The Great Condom War Of 1932 By Robert W. Sconce(Submitted by the author’s son, Mark Sconce) Psst, buddy! Slip me a can of condoms, will you? This is probably the way I put it to a trustworthy pal who worked at the drug store. That was in 1932 when I was a lad of […]
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson I had a bridge dream the other night. I dreamt that herself and myself were playing against Rick Williams and John Fraser at the Lakeside Bridge Center when this remarkable deal presented itself. Herself, sitting North opened a slightly weak, vulnerable 1 Diamond. Rick, sitting East, made
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OP-ED By Maggie Van Ostrand This is my last column for El Ojo Del Lago. It’s a bittersweet parting because my editor, Alejandro (Alex) Grattan, was the first person to encourage me to turn a writing hobby into a lucrative profession. He did this way back in 1995 by inviting me to become a
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Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez The Mexican-American Soldier When the United States first entered WWII in December of 1941, there were more than two and a half million people of Mexican descent living in the US, eighty-five percent of whom resided in five states: New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, California and Texas. But in
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Letter to the Editor Dear Sir: I often wonder if the Ojo readers would be better served if all political comment were avoided. A lot of what gets printed about political issues falls into the category of “inaccurate,” cheap shot sensationalism and Fred Mittag’s guest editorial in your May issue certainly fits the bill. He
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Joyful Musings By Joy Birnbach Dunstan,MA, LPC, MAC The Devil’s Radio Rumors run rampant here at Lakeside. And false rumors seem to run even faster than true ones. What is it about small-town living that makes everybody else’s business so interesting? In a small community like ours, we are all more visible to each
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UNCOMMON COMMON SENSE By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com What You Know May Not Be Correct! I recently came across the following quote from the British philosopher, Bertrand Russell: “The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very uncertainty. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in
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BRIDGE BY THE LAKE By Ken Masson One of the first adages aspiring bridge players learn is “Eight Ever, Nine Never.” This refers to the best way to play suit combinations when you hold 8 or 9 cards in a suit missing the queen. The theory is that with just 8 cards you should
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A Love Story Love in Action Orphanage started on a mountain in a potter’s shed. It took love and six years to renovate that shed, and eventually move the orphanage in 2008 off the mountain to a bigger better place on Pedro Moreno in Chapala. The building on the mountain stood empty for two
The Brujas of Mexico and California By Fred Mittag Medical marijuana is available in California in dispensaries if one has an easily obtainable certificate of need. Production and consumption have become so entrenched that it would be foolish for the government to try to enforce federal laws. Cable TV recently presented a full-length documentary
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