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Slim
Randies
HOME COUNTRY
World dilemma
think tank
Both Marvin Pincus and Dewey Decker joined
us for coffee this morning at the Round Table for
the daily gathering of the world dilemma think
tank at the Mule Barn truck stop.
It was an honor for us, as these
two were very busy entrepreneurs:
Dewey as chief executive officer
^ * 0" Environ mental Enrichment
Services" (he supplies cow manure
to local gardens) and Marvin as
5^ M proprietor of the Fly Tying Love
Center, where his advice and the
tying of an appropriate fly hope-
fully sends his clients happily into
relationshipal bliss.
Dewey was one of Marvin's suc-
cess stories, Marvin having tied up
a lead-wire-wrapped woolly bugger
for him and advising Dewey to ask a woman for a
date after showering.
"So how's the love advice biz, Marvin?" Doc
asked.
"Slow, Doc. Everyone seems to be pretty happy
right now. Cold winter doesn't help me much.
They all kinda scrunch together to stay warm."
"Marvin's tying fly earrings now, you know,"
Steve put in.
"Hey, that's right," Doc said. "My wife got some.
They're really pretty, Marvin. How's that going?"
"Better than the love advice part of it, that's for
sure. These women are sure funny when it comes
to flies. You'd think they'd like the kind of flies we
use around here. Adams, black gnat, mosquito,
muddler minnow, stuff like that."
"They don't?" Steve asked.
"Nope. They want salmon streamers. The gaud i -
er the better. I've had to learn to tie Silver Doctors
and Parmachene Belles and buy turquoise feath-
ers and a bunch of gold and silver wire to wrap
on them."
"They're sure pretty though," said Doc.
"Well, yes. But my biggie right now is a stone
fly nymph on a number four. Women wear those
with plain black evening dresses,"
"The big question is," smirked Steve, taking a
sip of coffee, "do they work?"
"Of course they do!" Doc said. "The other day
my missus was wearing hers when she went by
the pond at the library and she came home with a
six-inch rainbow trout hanging from each ear,"
Brought to you by "Sweetgrass Mornings " a
collection of outdoor memories, at wuiw.slim-
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GUEST COLUMN
$40 million elephant habitat
God bless America, and
how's everybody?
The Los Angeles Zoo
opened a forty million-
ollar elephant habitat
on Monday. The
animals thrive
in L.A. They have
thick skins, great
memories for who
screwed them over
and long trunks to
reach across the
room at parties
and snort someone
else's cocaine.
Long Island in
New York joined Los
Angeles and Hawaii
as the first places
with four-dollar-
a-gallon gas Tuesday.
The subway saves you no
money, The three hun-
dred a month you save
on gasoline is replaced
by the three hundred a
month you spend on pep-
per spray.
Charlie Sheen reported
Tuesday that the live stage
show "he'll perform in
Cleveland anc Detroit sold
out in only eighteen min-
utes online at orty dollars
a ticket. He said that one
dollar out of each ticket
sold will gc to Japan. All
the other hilars will go to
Colombia.
Julianne Moore was
signed to play Sarah Palm
Argus
Hamilton
in the HBO movie Game
Change,, which glorifies
Obama's election. S le won
the role in one minute.
The producers asked her
what she thought
of the tsunami
in Japan and
she said she's
had much bet-
ter sushi in New
York City.
California's
San Onofre
nuclear power
plant was cited
by anti-nuclear
protesters for
earthquake and
radiation risks.
The scare-mon-
gering is over the top.
People in Los Angeles are
being asked not to think
of them as nuclear reac
tors, but as really big cell
phones.
Japan'sradiationleakage
Tuesday prompted some
Democrats in Washington
to cite the need for univer-
sal health care coverage. It
was a natural connection
for them. Nothing says
universal medical care like
giving X-rays to everybody
at the same time.
Hillary Clinton flew to
Egypt Tuesday to pro-
mote democracy to the
Egyptians. Their enthusi-
asm for it has been wan-
ing. She's there to explain
to the leaders they can
make a lot more money
off book deals about their
adulterous affairs while in
office than they could ever
make off graft.
WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange told stu-
dents Monday the web is
the greatest spy machine
in 1 story. He's under
house arrest in a London
mansion but under a strict
curfew. If there's anything
a leaker of national secrets
will respect, it's a strict
curfew.
President Obama
unveiled his NCAA brack-
et picks live on ESPN
Wednesday as Libya and
Japan blew up He played
golf all day right after the
tsunami hit. Everyone's
just hoping and praying
that North Korea has the
manners not to attack us
on baseball's opening day.
Dick Cheney was report-
ed Monday to be writing a
no-holds- arred memoir.
It covers his career from
the Nixon Administration
through both Bush
Administrations. There is
so much gunfire in it, no
one will be allowed to buy
it without an instant back-
ground check.
Moammar Khadaffi's
forces appeared to get the
upper hand on Libyan
rebels Tuesday and began
offering amnesty. This guy
was never going to give up
anyway. No matter how fa r
the U.S. pushes Khadaffi
he will never throw in the
towel because he needs it
for his hat.
Al-Qaeda announced
it's going to publish a
women's magazine to help
further spread the mes-
sage of jihad. It's already
a lit. Everyone loves the
recipes for home-made
bombs and the articles
about how to avoid hav-
ing Thanksgiving ruined
by honor killings.
Kate Middleton began
making world fashion news
Monday during her appear-
ance in Wales before next
month's Royal Wedding.
She appeared in ; brown
herringbone coat with a vel-
vet trim collar by the British
label Katherine Hooker. It's
a sign of the times that the
secret to catching the eye
of a handsome prince is to
wear Hooker outfits.
Argils Hamilton is the
host comedian at The
Comedy StoreinHolly wood
and entertains groups and
organizations around the
country. E-mail him at
Argus@ArgusHamilton.
com.
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GUEST COLUMN
Last Weekend
"Did you have a nice
weekend?" a friend
asked on Monday, before
recounting all the fun
things he and his kids did
over the weekend.
I'm sure I looked at him
as if he had just arrived
from Mars.
"What did you
do for fun?" he
insisted.
I watched televi-
sion last weekend,
something I rarely
do. I woke up in
the middle c the
night to check not
my BlackBerry
for messages, but
my favorite news
sites for the latest
horror. I stared at
the endless pic-
tures and studied
all the interactive models
of how nuclear energy is
produced, how the cool
ing process Works, and
why they were pouring in
seawater and letting out
steam. I shook my h ad
that one of the world's
leaders in technology
— operating plants with
state of 111 art technol
ogy — could be reduced
to pouring in seawater
and letting out steam,
and could be stymied by
a stuck valve.
The pictures of human
suffering coming from
Japan are nothing less
than terrifying. I know,
we saw the pictures from
Katrina and the pictures
from Haiti. The world is
ful of horrible disasters
and unspeakable trag-
edies. You think you're
used to it. But — and I
Susan
Estrich
hope this is a good thing
and will always be so —
the suffering of thousands
of people, t e fear of mil-
lions, is not something
that will ever be routine
for me.
Some of it, to be sure, is
selfish. It is fear about our
own country, our
children and our
safety that makes
it hard to sleep
If Japan, with all
their smarts and
savvy and know-
how. can't handle
an earthquake,
how could we?
What if my son —
student of, of all
things, Japanese
— had been vis-
iting, as a group
from his school
had been planning to do
this summer? What if the
winds bring all that radia-
tion to our country, to the
West Coast, where I live?
And what about the
two plants right here in
California, a state known
for its extensive network
of faults? Why should I
believe the newspapers
when they say it couldn't
happen here? Didn't they
say the same thing in
Japan? Didn't they say
their plants were designed
to withstand earthquakes
and tsunamis, that they
had redundant safety sys-
tems, that the reactors
would automatically shut
down in the event of an
earthquake? The reactors
did shut down, but :he
electrical systems that
were supposed to cool
them did, too.
The easy answer, and
the one I expect many
politicians to jump 011, is
that nuclear power is just
too dangerous. But so is
our dependence on :he
Gadhafis of the world to
provide us with oil. So
are the mines in which
men risk their lives and
health every day to bring
up coal. Does anyone
really think that solar is
the answer t( everything,
that windmills will save
us from dirty and danger-
ous sources of energy? I
don't.
To be an adult is to
know that the world is
not a safe place, that bad
things happen, that no
one can ever say for sure
hat everything will be
fine. When my children
were little, they used to
make me promise each
time I left for a trip that I
would come home safely.
And I would solemnly
promise, knowing it was
argely beyond my con-
trc but refusing to deny
my children the comfort-
able security of child-
hood.
Oh, to believe such
promises could be kept.
By anyone.
Children who watched
television last weekend,
and certainly the children
of Japan, have come to
understand that the secu-
rity of childhood is a fairy
tale that even one of the
most advanced nations in
the world cannot make
real.
What did I do last week-
end? The truth is, I cried.
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