Category: Gary D. Gaddy Columns
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Crime and pun-ishment: There oughta be a law
This week's column is taken straight from local agency reports. Orange County police blotter UNC campus police report that a graduate assistant doing a large-scale experiment with caustic liquids was…
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Think you have problems? My wife left me for a younger man
A FEW WEEKS AGO my wife left me for another man. (I know what some of you who know her are thinking, but no, it was not Earl Scruggs –…
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A real emergency in North Carolina mental health
NOT LONG AGO, I was at the North Carolina General Assembly as part of the Coalition 2000 Advocacy Days looking for legislators to lobby about improving the current sad state…
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Pick your apocalypse; don’t wait ’til it’s too late
WE LIVE, I WOULD CONTEND, in the era of the apocalypse, meaning the end of life as we know it. Whether one will soon come to pass, of that I…
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High class, low class or no class: A quiz
The high-class, low-class or no-class quiz, also known as the Chapel Hill, Carrboro or Northern Orange County location test, is presented today to help my readers assess their social standing…
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Viagra and blue M&M’s in unprecedented joint recall
McLEAN, Va. — In an unprecedented joint-recall announcement Mars and Pfizer Incorporated have requested that consumers return to the place of purchase all blue M&M's and Viagra® tablets bought between…
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Cisco/Crisco merger to produce slickest high-tech yet
SAN JOSE, Calif. and ORRVILLE, Oh. — Cisco Systems®, the leading supplier of networking equipment and Crisco® Oils and Shortenings, a spin-off from the J.M. Smucker Company, announced today the…
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Cuba’s Castro undergoes deathbed conversion, reports say
HAVANA and MIAMI – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has become a capitalist, close aides report. Lying on what appeared to be his deathbed, the former communist dictator reflected on…
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Wins and losses: The woos and woes of “going pro”
NOW THAT BASKETBALL PLAYING SEASON is over (no, the NBA doesn't count), for fans of the top teams, it is a season of sadness and helplessness, as the college basketball…
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Puff (the Magic Dragon) busted on possession charges
LONDON — Puff (the Magic Dragon), who had disappeared from the public eye following the last Peter, Paul and Mary Reunion Tour, re-appeared in a London courtroom today. Puffy, as…
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