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December 24th, 2009
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Author: Welcome to the 2009 edition of the Best of Danehy
by Tom Danehy
Looking back on a year that was not as good as I had hoped, but not as bad as I had feared, these are a few of my favorite things: • Best Book (That I Read): It was actually a slow year for books for me. I just started reading Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer; it’s about the death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan. The book I enjoyed reading the most this year was Hunting Eichmann by Neal…
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While Republican legislators should have been dealing with the budget crisis, they were screwing teachers instead
by Tom Danehy
With a few notable exceptions (Abraham Lincoln’s administration comes to mind), America tends to succeed despite its government rather than because of it. So it is in Arizona. President Harry Truman had the “Do-Nothing” 80th Congress. We Arizonans have the Do-Almost-Nothing (and when you do, it’s almost-always wrong) 49th Legislature. Facing a budget deficit in the billions that, by law, must be erased, these people have fiddled while the Grand Canyon overflowed with red ink. The solid Republican majorities in…
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A new movie depicts an instance when sports worked a societal miracle
by Tom Danehy
One of my favorite books from the past couple of years is Playing the Enemy by John Carlin. It’s a straightforward and stirring account of how a fledgling national leader skillfully used sports to help heal a country and quite possibly prevent a bloodbath that could have turned into genocide. During his nearly three decades in captivity in apartheid South Africa, Nelson Mandela spent his time wisely. He taught himself to speak Afrikaans, the Dutch-like language used by the ruling…
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A tale of accidental stuffing ingestion, Crock-Pot shopping and the Marana Police Department
by Tom Danehy
At any stage of life—and particularly at the one I’m currently wandering through—if you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse. I know this to be true, and I try to live my life accordingly. Why, then, did I find myself standing in a 1,000-person line at a Target store in Marana two hours before sunrise? The glib answer is that I had already done my duty at the Kohl’s in Oro Valley, so this was the next stop. A few…
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Guilty White Liberals are running amok with their political correctness
by Tom Danehy
This Thanksgiving, I would like to point out that I’m thankful for Guilty White Liberals. It’s nice to have a big, fat, hairy example to help you stay on the path of true open-mindedness and not have to go through life with a stick up your butt. Guilty White Liberals are everywhere these days, making excuses for people and chastising those of us who still think Blazing Saddles is hilarious. For these people, we’ll use the term GWL, which is…
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Despite the sudden death of his mother, Devonte Malcolm keeps going to school, on time, every day
by Tom Danehy
Devonte Malcolm was on time for his first class of the day at Buena High School in Sierra Vista a couple of weeks back. His classmates normally wouldn’t have thought anything of it. Devonte was always in class and always on time; someone had convinced him of the veracity of that old saying that 90 percent of success in life is just showing up. He was proud of his perfect attendance. His mom would have been proud, too, except she…
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The City Council could learn a lesson from 19th-century Belgium
by Tom Danehy
By the time you read this, the Tucson city elections will be over, and we’ll all know whether Steve Kozachik pulled the upset over Nina Trasoff, if Ben Buehler-Garcia came close enough to put a scare into Karin Uhlich, and if Shaun McClusky pulled even 30 percent against Steve Leal’s anointed successor, Richard Fimbres. Then there’s also that pesky Proposition 200, which would make the city of Tucson safer or bankrupt, or both. I’m writing this the weekend before the…
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Tom is a contender at the Bisbee 1000 Steps—a contender for last place
by Tom Danehy
I did the Bisbee 1000 Steps thing a couple of weeks ago. (See “Stairway to Heavin’,” Oct. 15.) I can’t really say that I ran it; that would be misleading, or, more correctly, hilarious. Neither can I say that I competed in it. “Competed” connotes that others were aware of my presence and had to put forth an effort to stay ahead of me. All I can say is that I did it. I actually finished just ahead of a…
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The Pima County Sports Hall of Fame inducts a voice
by Tom Danehy
If you’ve lived in Tucson for any reasonable amount of time and are not a complete hermit, the chances are good that you’ve heard Dale Lopez’s voice at one time or another. How’s this for a partial résumé? He’s been the public-address announcer for the various Tucson minor-league baseball teams for the past 25 years; he’s also done Amphi football for more than 20 years, Pima College basketball for more than 20 years and Tucson High basketball for more than…
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Ignorance and stupidity are leading too many people to avoid flu vaccines
by Tom Danehy
What I find most troubling these days in the political arena is that complex issues, many involving science, are being argued at a high-decibel level by people who couldn’t even spell “science” if you spotted them the first five letters. For years, many people have denied the phenomenon of climate change, and while most have now accepted its existence, some begrudgingly, many people claim that there’s no way that mankind has anything to do with it. The dunce Sean Hannity…
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