If you owned a roadside billboard, what would it say?
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What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?
I’ve been considering the concept now for a little over 80 years, but I think I should continue to examine it for another 10 or 20 years to reach an informed conclusion.

Can you provide a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?
It would seem to be difficult to provide a negative example – unless we’re talking about the choir loft at the Catholic Church.

Who are your favorite people to be around?
People with longer arms, and deeper wallets than me.  I wouldn’t say that I’m a cheap bastard – because it takes more space on the screen, and those little electrons aren’t free.

Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.
Babyhood.  I didn’t develop the necessary language skills for several years, and by then it was too late.

What is your last learned skill?
I am finally able to listen to Theists seriously describe their religion, and their particular Deity, without bursting into laughter.

What activities do you lose yourself in?
Nature hikes

You’re getting a tattoo.  What does it say and where do you put it?
Where?  Trump’s forehead
What?  DNR
Return to sender
Convicted felon
Chester Cheeto
Objects may be dumber than they appear
I’m with stupid – and put the matching one on Musk

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If there are 6,400 unpaid tax accounts in the city, then 14% of homeowners are not paying their fair share.  What are these people going to do when their properties are reassessed, ask for more pity?  List now, before property taxes return to normal, so that people who can afford their homes can pay their fair share, increase Regional coffers and reduce financial pressure on the rest of us.

Op-Ed letter printed Boxing Day, Dec. 26/24 while I could still hear Ebenezer Scrooge saying, ARE THERE NO PRISONS?  ARE THERE NO POORHOUSES?

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As a response to Trump’s threat to impose tariffs, a newspaper article featured a local restaurant owner who was promising, and urging others, to “buy local.”  The name of his restaurant??!  “A Taste of Brazil??”  There are not many cocoanuts or bananas grown nearby.