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Butler went on vacation, and all he left us were his favorite things - THE AMAZON LINK: There are now two ways to get to Amazon and support this site. Old: Click on the “Buy it from Amazon” link on any review and go
Butler’s 500th - Butler's 500th Careful what you wish for --- I asked for suggestions for the 500th review, and several hundred of you had at least one. I read,
Butler’s taking two weeks, but not leaving you empty-handed - These are tricky times. A grinning maniac is driving the clown car of his administration at top speed into a wall --- or is it that he's preparing us for
Charity: Adopt a Soldier - Adopt A Soldier http://www.cornbreadshow.com/Soldier/adopt.htm Head Butler has steadfastly resisted discussing politics on these screens --- but you'll have to admit it's weird to be talking about things to give and things
Charles Nolan (June 3, 1957 – January 30, 2011) - I rolled off the plane, clicked the New York Times and there, on the main screen, was Charles Nolan --- dead. How could this be? I knew Charles had been
Chris Dickey (1951 – 2020) - The news that Chris Dickey had died suddenly in Paris sucked the air out of me, as it did for a number of my crowd. People who do words for
Chromecast Media Player - The temperature drops to minus 15 degrees in Duluth in December. I know. I was there. Why would anyone go to Duluth in the winter? Marriage, of course. When my wife was
Doubt -
Father’s Day 2005 - There isn't a tie you could stand to buy Dad this year. Seriously. Have you seen what they're calling neckwear this season? Strips of gaily colored industrial-strength silk, woven together
Father’s Day 2008 - I have the usual grievances about a “day” for me: Am I retiring? Dying? Will there be a postage stamp? This year I have a new gripe. Money. It's not that
Father’s Day 2010: Words & Music - Whatever objections I once had to Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are gone. Life seems harder now. Parents seem smarter, maybe even wiser. And I, in turn, am a bit
Father’s Day 2017: Give Daddy the big piece of chicken! - I’m having a hard time focusing on Father’s Day. It’s not me. It’s him. The President. For better or worse, the Father-in-Chief. What would you give him? What he
Father’s Day, 2013 - Oh Dad, poor Dad, women are leaning in and you look so bad. It’s true. Book after book tells us women are shut out from the C-suites (and they are)
Father’s Day, 2015 - I used to write for a home decorating magazine --- the term of art is “shelter magazine” --- that went kit-crazy. Everything had to be some kind of ingredient for
Father’s Day 2014 - I loved last year’s gift from the young person --- a card with a pen glued to it and a note: “This is the pen I used to write this
Father’s Day 2016: Just because Dad is male doesn’t automatically mean he’s a jerk - If you judge by the headlines, 2016 hasn’t been a good year for men. Start with the Presidential candidates. Move on to the cowboys who believe that the government
Father’s Day, 2012 - In an episode of “The West Wing,” one of the president’s men is having a drink at a bar in the Midwest. He strikes up a conversation with a man
Gifts for Difficult Recipients - GIFTS FOR DIFFICULT RECIPIENTS It's not that these folks are hard to please. It's that they don't fit easily into a neat demographic. (In fact, nobody does. But many people have been
