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By DAN MACKIE

I have never had much interest in gambling, other than in matters like eating dicey leftovers from the fridge. “I have an iron stomach,” I tell my wife and chief risk assessment officer, Dede, who does not always approve.As for sports gambling, which...

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I think I know how to save America: Bring back the station wagon.That’s a bold statement, but stick with me. When America ruled the world, station wagons ruled the road. Roof racks were common and could hold half the nation’s GDP, hopefully strapped...

It feels like I have been writing about age a lot lately. It may be topical, or perhaps I have reached the age when I can’t help repeating myself.Either way, we saw “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” in Hanover last weekend and I popped online...

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Maybe you have reached the age where the massive array of candles on your birthday cake could heat a small apartment or, even worse, contribute to global warming. The cake-top inferno signals that age is not just a number. It is THE NUMBER. There is...

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I have read quite a few self-improvement books in my life but when I finish them I seem to be much the same person I was on page one. “Awaken the Giant Within!” “Be Rich Now!” “Be So Full of Yourself That You and Everyone Else Will Hardly Be Able to...

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This column was written by a human. It may be among my last, because sources close to the Valley News have told me that the newspaper is developing artificial intelligence to replace some of the writers who currently inform, amuse and/or irritate...

By DAN MACKIE

I am more of a wise guy than a wise man, but I have picked up a little wisdom along the way. The great thinkers drink deep; I took in the learnings of the ancients with a sippy cup.Too little time was spent on the meaning of life. Too much on “how...

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Shockingly — SHOCKINGLY — I haven’t heard back from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas about my offer to put him up for a week or two for an Upper Valley vacation with certain, albeit limited, luxury elements.He has been kicking back with...

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Dear Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas:You’ve been in the news lately for taking swanky vacations provided by a billionaire Republican. The secret getaways on superyachts and private jets admittedly make me a little jealous.I’d have to win on...

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On a recent night as we watched the NCAA basketball tournament, I blurted out to myself and the universe, “Now why didn’t I play college ball?”It was an ironic lament, about the road not taken, the ball not dribbled.My wife, Dede, lowered her knitting...

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The canary in the coal mine was an egg in the supermarket.   One night, not very long ago, I was picking up a couple of groceries. I grabbed some milk and bread, and perhaps something sweet, or maybe for once I was being good.I made the turn to the...

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I’m starting to think that this digital life is going to be the end of us. It’s only a matter of time until ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence thingamabob that all the cool columnists are writing about, will be bossing us around, making us run its...

By DAN MACKIE

Last Saturday we had the most senior moment ever in White River Junction.No, not the senior moment where you can’t remember the name of an old star like Jackie Gleason or his sidekick (it will come back to you in a minute or two or a day or two.) Or,...

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If the weather predictions have come true this week, it is, as you are reading this, minus-70 degrees out, too cold even for snowmen and polar bears.Cars won’t start. Dogs won’t go out. Water won’t boil. It’s so close to absolute zero that icicles are...

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I feel some sympathy for George Santos, the new U.S. congressman who made a few missteps on his resume. Who hasn’t fudged a few details when blinded by a selfless desire to enter public service? I have shared much of my life with readers, but not the...

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Right as 2022 was ending (on a locally sleepy note), the news dropped that Lebanon may get a casino on the Miracle Mile.What timing! It just so happened that I was dreaming up fantastic scenarios for the New Year when this whopper dropped in my lap....

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The great question of our time isn’t whether the Russian army will slink home by Halloween, COVID will fade by Christmas or Donald Trump will wear a prison jumpsuit in the New Year (please, please), it’s right here in the present: What’s going on with...