IQ test for Americans

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This is the year the federal government conducts our constitutionally mandated census.  Tens of thousands of part-time workers will soon set about counting noses and asking all sorts of privacy-invading questions.  An interesting exercise for sure, but I am proposing an even more beneficial national measurement – a [...]

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Since my retirement, Mrs. Shambo and I have made a habit of spending at least one month/yr. outside the United States.  It’s fun, it’s exciting and it’s educational.  Just like the man who can’t “see the forest for the trees”, you really need to get out of America once in a [...]

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This is the time of the year when every newspaper columnist or TV talking-head lays out their predictions for the upcoming year.  Or, as in the case of a new decade, the coming ten years.  And, since most of the established print and broadcast media have the intelligence of fruit, I [...]

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Poor ‘ol Tiger Woods.  Seems his whole world has come crumbling down on his frizzy little head.  Too bad he was caught doing the one thing that is an unforgivable sin for anyone famous:
He screwed-up on a slow news day.
Now, of course, you can’t pick up a newspaper, turn on [...]

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Shocking news was released in the latest issue of “Consumer Reports” magazine regarding one of America’s most common sources of protein – chicken.  “Consumer Reports” has been testing chickens for bacteriological contamination since 1998 and reports it’s finding once per year.  This year’s analysis consisted of testing 382 store-bought broilers purchased [...]

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Well, the ‘ol Tiger sure has had his troubles of late.  Seems he has been ‘putting-the-wood’ to more than his drives off the tee.  Even without much of a putting game, he does not appear to be having any problem finding the hole.  In his latest ‘foursome’ he was the only [...]

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For those of you who perpetually don’t pay attention, you probably have not been caught up in the recent interest in the year 2012.   2012 is the year that the world is coming to an end – December 21, 2012, to be exact.  Now this is not a date picked [...]

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Question:  What happens when you mix good intentions with stupidity?   Answer:  A dumb idea.Â
Dumb ideas abound in America, in part because we have a huge base of good-intentioned people.  Regrettably, because we also have abandoned disciplining our children and allowed our education system to become little more than a government run baby-sitting service, we also have [...]

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I received sad news a few days ago.  Professor Cecil G. Johnson, World War II bomber pilot,  Georgia Tech engineering professor extraordinaire, and my mentor passed away last Sunday.  To characterize Prof. Johnson as as an educator would be like saying Mohammad Ali was merely a boxer.  Cecil Johnson was a giant among men [...]

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I hate to complain, but isn’t life complicated enough without all the worthless crap we’re exposed to every day?  How many of us have experienced the annoying sound of a car alarm blasting away with no one lifting a finger to investigate?  Has there EVER been a car alarm that [...]