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On the article With Morristown, With Patch, It Always Was Personal
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On the article Sandy Central On Patch
Dw. Dunphy
11:23 pm on Sunday, October 28, 2012
It is important to worry about the garbage. If people leave it out with the false impression it will somehow be picked up, that garbage will likely be washed into (and clog) storm drains. That will make flooding even worse. Short version - please everyone, secure your trash and do not put it out.
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On the article Hurricane Sandy: Trash on Tuesday Suspended in Twp.
Dw. Dunphy
11:14 pm on Sunday, October 28, 2012
ReplyAs can be expected, both wind and heavy rain may have the potential of carrying objects as heavy as a filled trashcan, so it is important people secure these well. Loose trash can wash into storm drains, clogging them and making flooding that much more possible. This will already occur because of fallen leaves, as well as the leaves that will be ripped from the trees in the high winds.
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On the article Did Negative Feedback Contribute to 'Snooki & JWoww' Reversal?
Dw. Dunphy
8:13 pm on Thursday, August 2, 2012
ReplyI don't believe citizen dissatisfaction had anything to do with it. In fact, citizen dissatisfaction would have provided the narrative MTV was looking for. If anything, production costs would have been too much.
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On the Blog Post My Unabashedly, Unashamedly Biased Goodbye to Zebu Forno
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On the article Zebu Forno Closing Doors on Tuesday
Dw. Dunphy
7:11 pm on Monday, July 16, 2012
ReplyThis is not a dump on Starbucks but an observation I need to make -- Zebu Forno had the casual feeling I used to experience from actual coffeehouses, versus Starbucks where the sofa can be used but the owners don't expect you to stay on it too long. Zebu Forno seemed like a great place to go after a concert at the Mayo. You could sit a while, drink a coffee, decompress, talk about the show (maybe sober up a bit, too) and you never had the impression the clock was ticking over your head.
Mr. Oliver may be depressed by this turn of events, but he should be proud that he (for the largest part) got it right. He achieved that friendly, slightly bohemian vibe and never made the customers feel pressured. Mostly, his enemy was the ever-lingering pallor on the economy. Morristown is not the only town where businesses are coming and going at a breakneck pace, sadly.
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On the Blog Post ANIME'NIA
Dw. Dunphy
9:22 pm on Monday, June 11, 2012
ReplyI don't think I could call myself otaku, but I do know that when Japanese animation is good, it is very good. Aside from the unassailable Miyazaki (who for me ranks right there with Kurosawa -- who cares what their methods are; they're both great filmmakers) you have Serial Experiments Lain, Akira, and several other projects that dared to treat animation as something other than a children's medium. Oh, there are some nasty, not-so-good aspects of anime just as there are some bad-taste and poor judgment projects in traditional filmmaking, but few American animation companies are seriously trying to break that "cartoon" tether.
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On the article POLL: Stop Kids From Tanning Indoors?
Dw. Dunphy
8:51 pm on Tuesday, May 29, 2012
ReplyLook, the tanning beds have to go. Yesterday, as hot as it was, I saw people heading into the tanning salon. It clearly has a negative effect on the adults, so spare the children that glorious joy of Baby's First Biopsy. Chemotherapy is a grown-up thing: can't we keep it that way?
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On the article Rex Ryan Relieved Dodgers Not on Jets Schedule
Dw. Dunphy
2:17 pm on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
ReplyRex needs to hush up and get to work on his team. Stunts don't get you a championship and August is only four months away.
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On the article Judge to Birthers: Obama Can Run for President
Dw. Dunphy
7:23 am on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
In the spirit of bi-partisanship let us then ask the question of why there isn't equal and opposite moral outrage regarding Mitt Romney's current refusal to release all his tax returns. Is there a bigger issue that he has been scrupulously delivering those that pertain to the years he ran for president, and the rest have fallen by the wayside?
In that, is the Republican party set to nominate someone who has been paying less tax than he is supposed to by law (never mind the tax breaks that are afforded his bracket, the loopholes of income from investments versus unearned income)? After all, the whole Tea Party ethic is based around (purportedly) the issue of taxes, Taxed Enough Already, and so forth. Yet these Tea Partiers are prepared to hold their noses and deliver Romney to the general election, all for the disdain for Barack Obama.
I am not saying there should be the seething, angry outcry for Romney to reveal. I am saying that those who are so vehemently demanding Obama's birth certificate should, under their own codes of belief and liberty and such, be commensurately outraged by Romney's actions, yet are not.
It leads the logical and reasonable to believe this has nothing to do with being the watchdogs of justice and morality and the law. It has everything to do with only burning the witches you want to burn. There's nothing Christian or moral or just about that.
Dw. Dunphy
8:50 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Why don't you take over? I'm sure when you're running things no one will ever disagree with you, love everything you say and, OH WAIT, THE INTERNET DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.