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Jacquielynn Floyd

12/03/2008

If you are appalled by Sean Avery's comment, you're not alone
Before you write off my grossed-out revulsion for Sean Avery as girly squeamishness, consider that I’ve got a lot of company.

12/01/2008

Don't go off half-cocked regarding 'open-carry' law for guns
I don't think the cops ought to be able to kick the door down and take guns away from you. But I don't think they ought to be viewed as a standard piece of equipment, a handy tool like nail clippers to tuck in everybody's Christmas stocking, either.

11/28/2008

Let's don't black out 'Black Friday'
If, after preparing a Thanksgiving meal for two dozen people, making strained conversation with distant relatives, entertaining a squabbling tribe of whiny housebound kids and making up the guest room for stragglers, you wish to rise at 4 a.m. to stand in line for a Guitar Hero game, be my guest. I'm sleeping in.

11/27/2008

11/25/2008

It was once true love with malls, but now we've grown apart
This will be a hardscrabble holiday, we keep hearing, and with good reason.

11/20/2008

Missing woman’s fate shouldn’t have been so cruel
Like so many other Alzheimer’s sufferers, Margie Dabney wandered. Her death might have been avoided had just one person noticed her and taken the time to ask her a few questions.

11/18/2008

Gays renew vow to fight for marriage
Local protests against a gay-marriage ban in far-off California are odd phenomena when you consider there was less of a fuss when Texas authorized pretty much the same ban three years ago.

11/11/2008

The law worked in Schlosser case; that's the problem
In terms of strictly disinterested odds, Dena Schlosser probably poses less of a public safety risk than a teenage driver with a new license and a fast car.