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by Kevin Burton I’ve tried twice now, and I won’t be back here again, to “get” the whole Taylor Swift thing. The first time around came when Swift started dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and started getting mega-coverage by watching Chiefs games from luxury suites. I said, Oh my …
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by Blake Bachelor CNN (Blogger’s note: Yesterday we ran the first part of a BBC story explaining why many Americans, especially retirees, are leaving for other places. Today reporter Blake Bachelor gives details of just where to go and how best to thrive there.) Here are five countries that are well-suited for retirees. …
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by Blake Bachelor CNN Drawn by sunshine or a lower cost of living, a growing number of Americans are choosing to live their golden years outside the US, in the hope that it will better suit their financial or lifestyle needs and wants. While official numbers aren’t available, companies and organizations that specialize …
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by Ellie Cobb BBC When Emily Hill, a novelist from Everett, Washington, heard about the recent changes to Canada’s citizenship-by-descent rules, she immediately wondered whether a family connection might make her eligible. “I felt like I’d been struck by lightning,” she says, explaining that her grandmother was born in Montreal. “This possibility was …
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by Madeline Halpert BBC Kristy Gammon used to travel to the US from Canada at least once every other year, taking ski trips at Lake Placid in New York and traveling to Baltimore, Maryland, for her husband’s favorite Orioles baseball games. But those trips are now over, she said. This year, the Nova …
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by Kevin Burton I say “Jane you ignorant slut,” and you of a certain age know exactly what I am talking about. It’s an old Saturday Night Live bit from the 70s, Point/Counterpoint, a sendup of the political opinion shows and a similar segment on 60 Minutes. Jane Curtin spoke in favor of …
by Kevin Burton You fearful and despairing, you weary of mind and heart, comfort today from The Bible, with help from a French novelist. “The more things change, the more they are the same” is the best-known quotation of Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808 –1890) a French critic, journalist, and novelist. You’ve probably heard …
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by Kevin Burton Look, I’m not bragging, I’m just sayin’ .We have a source. No, not giving up my source, go get your own. I’m not saying the eggs we get are cheap-cheap, not like before. But they’re not 70s gasoline-lines expensive either. You know where else eggs are not expensive …
by Kevin Burton God knows this, so you might as well know it too. Right now, you could call me a “check please” Christian. You get the reference, right? In American situation comedies there is this line that writers use. I’ve seen the line delivered over and over in any number of …
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by Kevin Burton On the night of the first full day of the return of the American Nazi Party to power in the United States, I watched the first ever episode of the Carol Burnett Show and of Laugh-In. I needed a laugh. Badly I did this via Amazon. Before that time …
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