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...summer while I was growing up, my parents took me to the Jersey shore, where I'd plug quarter after quarter into pinball machines. As a teenager attempting to evade Mom and Dad's sometimes overbearing attention, I'd bike to the local arcade and slam the same games. Even into my 30s, whenever I'd visit my folks, I'd drive to a nearby juke joint and shoot a few pins for old times' sake. But when I became an orphan this year at age 42, I also became an adult. I stopped playing pinball for good...
...even the boardwalk. A few days after the funeral, I drove out to the Jersey Shore to watch the sunrise. Walking on the familiar wooden slats, I passed the arcade that my parents took me to as a child. There were still a few pinball machines left amid the new video games. Somehow, I didn't have the urge to drop in a single coin. But I did imagine a time when I could take my own kids down to the beach and let them play to their hearts' content...
...Even as Chrysler hurries to increase supply, another entry in the nostalgia sweepstakes is on the way. Next summer an incarnation of the classic 1955 Ford Thunderbird will appear. The Thunderbird (so named by a young Ford stylist who was rewarded with a $95 bonus and a pair of trousers from Saks Fifth Avenue) started out as a snazzy two-seater weighing 3,000 lbs. and costing $2,695. It eventually evolved into a giant sedan weighing more than 5,000 lbs. that was finally discontinued in 1997. The new model, slimmed down to roadster size and fitted with familiar...
...state races, the eleventh-hour attacks got even wilder. The fur flew in Georgia as an animal-rights group slammed Representative Bob Barr for opposing legislation to ban fetish videos in which women crush animals with their heels, coining a classic of American political discourse: "Bob, animal crushing is not common sense...
...TRUTH TELLERS SELDOM WIN Most voters don't like to hear unpleasant truths. And God forbid you ever imply that voters are lazy and don't understand the issues. If you insist on telling the truth, at least do it with a smile. Even the press prefers this. Happy warriors almost always trump truth tellers. Which brings us to Rule...