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Coffee pots and other lethal kitchen gadgets

BILL HALL

Published May 18th, 2013 - 12:05AM

How bizarre it is that a prime instrument of a mother’s love for her children — one of her pots and pans — has become a creepy instrument of death.

Preserving a piece of the past for future generations

BILL HALL

Published May 11th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Like so many of you, I never got to meet all four of my grandparents. But Alexander Graham Bell has reminded me how the grandchildren of today can have a better idea of their grandparents, even if they have never met them in the flesh.

America: Don’t let rats take you for a ride

BILL HALL

Published April 27th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Come clean, you dirty rat.

That admitted lawyer is covered in cookie crumbs

BILL HALL

Published April 20th, 2013 - 12:05AM

An international airline with computer troubles was compelled to cancel hundreds of flights for thousands of passengers, but it apologized.

The wristwatch method for rating movies

BILL HALL

Published April 13th, 2013 - 12:05AM

I was sitting in a theater watching the last few minutes of a movie when it dawned on me that, technically, the movie was very long. But I hadn’t even noticed.

We need a food joint built for early eaters

BILL HALL

Published April 6th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Like most Americans, I am neither 100 percent capitalist nor 100 per cent socialist. I not only support the blatantly socialistic public schools and fire departments but I also support the transparently capitalistic espresso bars, grocery stores, commercial cat food companies and manly man hardware stores.

Odd, isn’t it, how the immortals die unbelted?

BILL HALL

Published March 30th, 2013 - 12:05AM

A newspaper report on a traffic accident told a familiar story: “The vehicle rolled, and she was ejected.”

Come out, come out, wherever you are, children

BILL HALL

Published March 23rd, 2013 - 12:05AM

We are deep into a new era of social acceptance in which some of life’s clouds have parted and the son has come out.

A cup of Joe still tests relationship’s dynamic

BILL HALL

Published March 16th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Until recently, coffee was part of the glue that holds couples together.

Dead cats can cure sneezing, says this anecdote

BILL HALL

Published March 9th, 2013 - 12:05AM

Some years ago, I went through a period of incessant sneezing. If you lived near me, that’s what that sound was that used to keep you awake.

Heroes are found in classrooms – not in the Capitol

BILL HALL

Published March 2nd, 2013 - 12:05AM

It’s easy to tell heroes from the rest of us.

Think of the world we’re handing our descendants

BILL HALL

Published February 23rd, 2013 - 12:05AM

I heard something the other day that made me start worrying about the old age of my unborn great-grandson.

The fury over the sound quality of movies

BILL HALL

Published February 16th, 2013 - 12:05AM

If you build a better mouse trap, the world will beat a path to your door, but not if your mouse murder device is no better than the traps already on the market.

Within all of us, there beats the heart of a farmer