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A fast-food lesson

Gee, just think. If I'd stuck with the job I had to make money in high school, I could have had a real career:

A woman in Evansville, Indiana, has been working at McDonald's for nearly 40 years.

89-year-old Loraine Maurer says the reason she's continued to work at the town's very first McDonald's is that she's happy.

The kids are all right

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Penn State scandal -- and there so many -- is this reaction by too many students:

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People who do in-home stuff for us don't think our time is nearly as valuable as theirs, which is why they give us big windows instead of specific times, as in: "Yes, we can have someone there between noon on Wednesday and 2 p.m. three weeks from now." But out time is worth something:

Close to

Forever and ever without any stories concering small, private or "backyard" burials, and today there are two of them. A widow in southern Indiana has buried her husband in the backyard of the home they lived in for 50 years, working her way around a state law requiring all bodies to be bured in cemeteries:

A matter of perspective

Kind readers:

I know a problem has developed with the blog. Only five or six posts are visible, the link to "previous posts" is gone, and the sidebar has disappeared. As far as I can tell, this is only happening in Internet Explorer. Things appear as they should be in either Firefox or Google Chrome. I'm having tech support here investigate, and I hope we can get a fix going.

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Soft economy? What soft economy?

DALLAS — For shoppers seeking a bit — or a lot — of holiday extravagance, the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book unveiled Tuesday is offering options like a $420,000 tour of European flower shows on a private jet and a $250,000 handcrafted mahogany speedboat.

Small blessings

How depressing. There are still four NFL teams without a win -- the Rams, the Vikings, the Dolphins and the Colts. Who'd have thought at the beginning that we'd have to be grateful for even this small crumb?

The Peyton Manning-less Colts are the most likely team to shed the title of "winless" first.

Pack it in

My sister is obsessed with storage. She is forever on the lookout for boxes and bags and bins and all other kinds of containers that will help her catalog and organize and sort and arrange all her stuff so she can put in neatly in closets and on shelves all neat and tidy, out of the way but easy to get to. One of the cable networks actually has a program devoted to storage solutions, and she watches it just like it was the Syfy channel or Fox or some other venue of real entertainment. I don't know where she got this unhealthy fixation. What's the big deal?

The fools can't help it

Sen. Dick Durbin is nominated for the Dim Bulb of the Year award. When Congress was debating the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, he's the one who insisted on an amendment to limit what banks can charge merchants for debit card trnasactions. Critics warned at the time that banks would merely find another way to make up the difference, probably at the expense of consumers. And guess what? Think of it as "the Durbin fee" if you end up being one of the debit card users who has to pay a yearly fee for the privilege:

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