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Butch Wants to Cancel ‘Cancel Culture!’

   OK, you old-timers, do you remember when you could express your opinions, state your...

Butch Relates Story of Nice Boy Turned Bad

As a deputy and later on as Sheriff, I was not too concerned with enforcing...

Butch Remembers a Special Teacher

  I have written about a few of my teachers in earlier columns, and here...

Butch Says Thanks to the School Bus Drivers

Each day the lives of our children are placed in the hands of some very...

Butch Has “Childhood Food Regression”

  My wife says that I have strange eating habits. For once she may be...
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Post Election Thoughts & Pres. Regan

Well, it's finally over. I thought the 2024 election campaigns would never end. Perhaps you're...
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Butch Recalls Teaching A Great Group of Kids

After I had returned to Purdue and earned my teacher's license, I began teaching at...
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Butch Says We Need Johnny and Rodney Back Again

   My wife and I watched several TV comedy shows in the good ol' days...
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Jobs That Are Enjoyable . . . and Jobs That Are Not!!

  For many people, work is about making enough money to make ends meet, having...
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Butch Catches Corvette Fever!

The first car that my parents owned was a pale green late 1940s Pontiac with...