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John Eggerton
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Freelance writer and former senior content producer, Broadcasting & Cable and Multichannel News magazines. All Tweets are entirely mine.
Washington, DCbroadcastingcable.com/blog/BC_DC_Egg…Joined May 2009

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The PGA can hate on the members who defected to LIV. But the players can thank the Mickelsons and DJs for larger purses, no-cut tournament opportunities and other things that spread the wealth deeper into their remaining fields.
Mr. "Buy American" MyPillow pusher Mike Lendell is bragging about using Middle Eastern cotton in his sheets and pillow cases. Guess America doesn't produce any cotton for him to buy. Or is it just substandard?
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15th-16th century Scottish pamphleteer John Arbuthnot has the thought for the day: "All political parties die at last of swallowing [and I would add "choking on"] their own lies."
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I had a close friend whose heart stopped. His wife gave him CPR until the paramedics arrived. He was in the hospital for 10 days, mostly for observation. Made a full recovery and became a volunteer EMT. Hoping for a similar result for Damar.
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The Fiesta Bowl trophy looks like a Trump bathroom fountain. What a monstrosity. As was the officiating. Now, the one-inch line has become impenetrable. That was a Michigan touchdown without the hair-splitting, game impeding replay.
Tommy Somthers joke I found very poigniant given a recent brush with death I had after falling asleep at the wheel: "I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not in stark terror as did the people who were in the car with him."
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I have said it before and I'll say it again: Minnesota is the softest 10-3 team I have seen in almost 60 years of watching NFL (and AFL) football.
This holiday fire ad from Red Cross is a big buzzkill. They should have focused, instead, on a family clearly needing help getting a holiday thanks to Red Cross.
Watson: Holmes, however did you deduce that the guano could only come from a species of bat native to South America. Holmes: Why, process of elimination, of course.
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