Articles by Dennis E. Powell

Dennis E. Powell is crackpot-at-large at Open for Business. Powell was a reporter in New York and elsewhere before moving to Ohio, where he has (mostly) recovered. You can reach him at dep@drippingwithirony.com.

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Oct 27, 2023

How Halloween Was

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 10:00 PM

Next Tuesday is Halloween, though holidays are now moved all over the place. No doubt plans are underway to desecrate Christmas, New Year, and Thanksgiving, but moving Halloween all over the place is especially inconvenient, in that it involves strangers coming to our homes, so we must be there, and if it’s spread out over many days . . . well, you can see. Or will.

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Oct 18, 2023

No Better the Umpteenth Time

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 10:14 PM

Have you ever re-watched a sad movie, hoping that this time the outcome will be different? Welcome to the world today. Only it’s not a movie.

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Oct 11, 2023

Time to End This

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 3:34 PM

Babies. They beheaded babies. They are proud of it. It is particularly troubling when acts are so horrific that people of good will are sad that they are not there to personally kill the offenders. But that was my instant, immutable response to a video I saw on Saturday.

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Oct 04, 2023

Here's News You Haven't Heard

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 8:56 PM

The bill is coming due, and it will get paid one way or another.

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Sep 27, 2023

Hospitals Are Dangerous Places

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 9:57 PM

My grief-stricken niece, a nurse, this week had to explain to her 7-year-old son that his daddy would not be coming home from the hospital. That heartbreaking duty followed a stressful month.

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Sep 20, 2023

Protect the Sinister!

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 11:04 PM

In our group-based-grievance society, one minority has been almost entirely ignored and is constantly discriminated against. It makes up about 11 percent of the population. It is not something its members choose, but its effects reach into every aspect of their lives.

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Sep 13, 2023

World, We've Got a Problem

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 7:18 PM
There used to be a rule among reporters: the likelihood of a secret being kept is the inverse of the number of people who know that secret. The rule still exists; it’s the reporters who disappeared, replaced by demographically selected persons hired to preen before television cameras or write stories intended to maintain the woke *bona fides* of themselves and their publications.
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Sep 06, 2023

A Treatment for Bad-mood

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 10:40 PM

There was a time when respite was available, when for a couple of hours each week one could wipe his brow and smile. The restorative power of two hours of happiness is not to be underestimated.

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Aug 30, 2023

This May Be Why Television's Parting Contestants are Never Seen Again

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 11:45 PM

The shampoo was cheap — as in $1.49 for a half gallon — but, hey, it was a name brand, so why not? When I used it I was rendered nearly unconscious by the amount of perfume in it. I’m not talking a nice scent, either, but rather the sort of thing you’d expect to find on the last-resort utility shelf at a mortuary, for use when the departed is past his bury-by date.

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Aug 23, 2023

Hellagana

By Dennis E. Powell | Posted at 10:51 PM

Much has been written in the last 75 years about how the U.S. gained an edge in the Pacific in World War II when the Japanese code was broken. In recent weeks it turns out I may have been trying to recreate that feat, and have begun to understand the challenges those skilled codebreakers faced.

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