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  <div class="message">Three months ago I was vacationing on the coast of my home state, enjoying one of the simple yet too-often-overlooked pleasures of living in South Carolina--its bucolic, bountiful, accessible beaches.<br><br>My first stop was in Charleston, which--let’s face it--is my state’s crown jewel. Its residents certainly breathe rarified air, but they come by it honestly. There’s a kind of buoyant magic in that city, and when you’re there you can’t decide whether you’re moving backward or forward in time.<br><br>I’ve walked the…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/notes/blog/46638/remove-the-flag">Read more</a></span></div>
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    <p class="post-info"><span data-time="2009-10-22T16:25:00-07:00" title="October 22, 2009 16:25">10/22/2009</span></p>

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  <div class="message">My name is Kenley Young, and I just might kill health care reform.<br><br>
Please don’t get me wrong. I’m a liberal, I support a public option, and I’m in love with Rachel Maddow, even though she won’t return my calls. If wanting universal health care for Americans is “socialist,” then Marx me down for it in red ink, comrade.<br><br>
I’m not TRYING to kill the plan to fix health care.<br><br>
Nevertheless, I’m part of the reason it might get drowned in the tub. Why? <br><br>
Sadly, it’s because I’m a white, reasonably affluent male…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/notes/blog/46621/drawing-health-care-straws-would-you-rather-be-lucky-or-good">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">I turn 30 this year. When Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was released, I was 4.<br><br>
So in the hours after his passing, I found myself wondering, "How big of a deal could this sad freak show really be to people?" I mean, when Jackson was Moonwalking, I was learning to tie my shoes.<br><br>
But then I started to scan my memory banks. And, a few hours later, I moved on to Google, where suddenly it hit me like a high-pitched "Scham-on!"<br><br>
If, like me, you ever need proof of how important Jackson's musical legacy is--or if…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/notes/blog/46622/king-of-pop-king-of-obits">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">... Nothing wants to die. <br><br>
OK, so I stole most of that from Tom Waits. <br><br>
Still, the recent TIME magazine cover story on ways to save your newspaper got me thinking. Below is a post I submitted on Facebook as part of an ongoing thread among some fellow newspaper colleagues:<br><br>
The Internet is the only place in existence where the price for everything is exactly nothing. And for anyone who has grown up online, the specter of paying for content--whether it be news, pictures, music, videos or porn--is anathema. …<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/notes/blog/46623/it-s-the-same-with-newspapers-as-with-horses-and-dogs">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">I saw Van Halen last night, suckers.<br><br>
Not Van Hagar. <br><br>
Not Van ... Cherone. <br><br>
But Van Halen, the only way they were ever meant to be seen. <br><br>
With David Lee Roth leading the charge.<br><br>
I'd been waiting a long time for this moment. More than a decade, actually. I quoted Diamond Dave in my high school valedictory speech in 1997: "You gotta roll with the punches and get to what's real, Bulldogs!"<br><br>
Given the band's strife-laden, noxious history, I fully expected to be disappointed. I mean, if past VH reunions are…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/notes/blog/46626/might-as-well-jump-for-joy">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">The Myers Briggs "humanmetrics" test says it can predict your personality type on the basis of your answers to 70 yes-or-no questions.<br><br>
I don't think the test could accomplish that if it asked you 70,000 yes-or-no questions, spent all day with you, bought you an Apple-tini and made sweet love to you all night.<br><br>
I don't believe Myers Briggs can predict human behavior any more than I believe Dick Cheney has human parts. "Humanmetrics" sounds like something out of an L. Ron Hubbard novel. I don't like labels,…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/notes/blog/46628/enfp-r2d2-and-ub40">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">How long have I loved--and wanted to be--Batman?<br><br>
It's difficult to judge. I'm no fanboy, certainly. I can't tell you the Batmobile's horsepower or the number of notches in the guy's utility belt.<br><br>
But for as long as I can remember, I've loved him. Or, more accurately, the idea of him. The Batman myth.<br><br>
The earliest evidence of my adoration lies in a scrapbook at my parents' home. One of the photos is from Halloween circa 1984, which would put me at no more than five years old. In it, my cousin and I are…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/notes/blog/46627/gotham-or-bust">Read more</a></span></div>
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 My 10-year high school reunion was this past weekend, which officially ushers me into my twilight years. The only good news is that I think I can access my 401(k) now.<br><br>
I attended the casual meet-and-greet part of the reunion weekend on Friday, which was a lot more fun than I thought it might be. I'm just glad everyone wore name tags. Of course, once it got dark, I couldn't read them. Still, I had only two or three awkward moments when a former classmate addressed me as "Kenley" and I just called him… <span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/notes/blog/46629/the-secret-of-my-success">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message">So go ahead and add corn on the cob to the list of foods I've recently discovered that I, in fact, love.<br><br>
I know, I know. "Corn on the cob? It's delicious. Everybody knows that."<br><br>
Well, sorry. I didn't know that. At least not until I visited friends in New Orleans a few years ago and sampled some of that city's sumptuous cuisine (alligator cheesecake, anyone?). I realized then that corn on the cob was actually edible and even rose to the level of amazing when butter, salt and pepper were added.<br><br>
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  <div class="message">I'm not often told that I resemble a celebrity, but when I do hear it, I usually don't understand it.<br><br>
Eons ago when I had (long) hair,&nbsp; I got the occasional comparison to Stevie Ray Vaughn, probably because we both have wide noses and play guitar. And except for the fact that he did lots of drugs and women--and could play circles around me even if I severed one of his arms--I guess the two of us bear a resemblance.<br><br>
And once, as I was getting off the light-rail in D.C. several years ago, a male passenger…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/notes/blog/46631/i-m-your-huckleberry">Read more</a></span></div>
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