Dick Yarbrough
Discussing current events with Skeeter Skates and friends
I could tell by the way the phone jumped straight up when it rang who was on the line.
Dick Yarbrough, Author at The Post-Searchlight
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Talking political correctness with a bottle of syrup
The scene: A grocery store aisle, one-way, 6 feet from another human being, masked and looking for any available paper products since toilet tissue seems ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Friday, July 10, 2020 3:06 pm
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Some random thoughts on some unsettling times
If you are still watching television news (I rarely do these days), you will notice that the protests across the country seem to be as ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Thursday, July 2, 2020 3:04 pm
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The New York Times owes us an apology
In case you haven’t heard, there is a big stink permeating the offices of the New York Times.
by Dick Yarbrough, Friday, June 26, 2020 3:38 pm
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Remembering Dad On His Special Day
Let us pause a moment from the endless angst and anguish over racial issues, the uncertainty of the status of COVID-19, faulty voting machines and ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Friday, June 19, 2020 2:54 pm
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A Complex Issue With No Easy Answers
These thoughts on the current upheaval in our country come courtesy of an unusual array of sources: The late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy; Larry Savage, ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Friday, June 12, 2020 2:17 pm
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Is there no place these days for thoughtful discourse?
My column last week on a radio commentary by the late Paul Harvey drew a lot of reader response from across the state, all of ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Friday, June 5, 2020 2:19 pm
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Prophetic words from a late and great commentator
I have long been an admirer of the words and works of the late Paul Harvey and his radio commentaries known as the “The Rest ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Friday, May 29, 2020 1:31 pm
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A special group helps repay a special debt
For much of my adult life, I have tried to return to my alma mater, the University of Georgia, a portion of what the institution ...
by Dick Yarbrough, Friday, May 22, 2020 11:15 am
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Some random thoughts on some random subjects
A flag-waving salute to the United States Air Force’s Thunderbirds and the Navy’s Blue Angels who roared across Georgia’s skies in tandem last week, paying ...