Feb 13, 2019 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener (This is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.) You had probably just finished reading your last Times of January on Wednesday evening, when I dismissed some mild stomach and queasiness as something I ate. But before long the stomach pains...
Feb 6, 2019 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Here we are now halfway through winter. It just about six more weeks until the first day of spring. We’ve gone through a few days of negative temperatures followed by a warm up and followed yet again by another 6-8 or 10 weeks of occasional bone...
Jan 30, 2019 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener The Indiana legislature, under the guise of saving money wants to eliminate telling you how government spends your money by publishing legal notices in your county newspapers. Their idea is to put the information on the internet. And that could work...
Jan 23, 2019 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener Back in the day (and I think the day was around 1971) a group of Canadian musicians called ‘Five Man Electrical Band’ charted a song named “Signs”. It was a rebellious sort of song blasting being told what to do…”do this, don’t do that. Can’t you read...
Jan 16, 2019 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener (This is an encore column from the Curt Comments archives.) With apologies to Mrs. Lewis, my high school English teacher. Let’s face it. English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in a...
Jan 9, 2019 | Curt Comments
by Curt Kovener We have all read and maybe just glossed over stories of attempts by cybercriminals to spam and scam and otherwise steal our money and misuse our identity. I read and didn’t pay much attention. Now that’s changed. Before the holidays as I was traveling...
