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If you need a shoulder to cry on, don’t blubber all over mine. I’m crying on my own shoulder these days because I have an injured rotator cuff.

While it’s the moms who obviously do the heavy lifting when it comes to bringing a baby into this world, that doesn’t mean that the dads can’t experience their own euphoria when it comes to the promise of new life. As for the way they express their joy, well, that can come in a variety of ways, from the predictable and clichéd to the downright larcenous.

If you are of a certain age — say, old enough to be president of the United States in 2023 — you might remember the TV sitcom “Here Come the Brides.” (If you aren’t a certain age, you didn’t miss much.)

Joe Biden is an expert on everything and actually knows what kind of car you should be driving. And while it’s bad enough that new cars have been hard to come by and more expensive for some time, you can expect more of the same if Joe has his way. Heck, he might even destroy the auto industry while he’s at it.

We are past due for a review of basic manners and civic responsibility.

When we borrow or use something that will eventually be possessed or owned by someone else, we should give that item back in as good or better condition than when we first got it.

The battle for working-class voters is on, and it could well decide the outcome of the 2024 election.

Deion Sanders has rumbled through the college football landscape this season with the power and tenacity of a Buffalo stampede. In his first Power 5 coaching gig at the University of Colorado Boulder, Sanders has brought back the kind of excitement that was rampant on the Boulder campus during the ’90s before the Bowl Championship Series era.

Surely, I feel blessed, at 72, to be well enough and motivated enough to work. While it does mystify some of my retired friends that seem to find no trouble filling up their days with daily golf, trips to the Y and stops at the Beer Barrel, truth be told, one of my greatest mortal fears is how I would fill my days if I didn’t work. Fortunately for me, the world in which we live seems to embrace the reliability and experience that senior workers provide, especially after COVID, when so many of those who used to work found so many other things to do rather than work.

Even though I can barely make scrambled eggs, which become scrambled when I try to make fried eggs, I am more than just a flash in the pan.