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Dick Baynton

STUART REVERCOMB: We Will Greatly Miss The Indefatigable Dick Baynton

EDITOR'S UPDATE:Three days after sending the note that follows (March 17 - his last communication with us) Dick passed away while awaiting the possible surgery he mentions below. Per...

DICK BAYNTON: March Public Service Announcements

Following are two public service announcements that were forwarded to members of the ‘Big Lick...

DICK BAYNTON: Healthcare U.S.A.

The total cost of healthcare in the US was about 18% of GDP in 2019;...

DICK BAYNTON: Life and Death In Idlib Province, Syria

Syria, about the size of North Dakota with a population of about 17 million people...

DICK BAYNTON: Political Sophistry

Recently I heard one of the current band of presidential candidates whine that he had...

DICK BAYNTON: Sanctimonious Sexual Subjugation

A dark cloud of sexual misbehavior has descended over our great republic from sea to shining sea and beyond. This cloud is emitting the...

DICK BAYNTON: The Devil is in the Details

First up in today’s column is the small but important failure of the Air Force to turn over information to the FBI regarding the...

DICK BAYNTON:  Diversity & Divisiveness

Are we a divided country? Of course we are; in fact the entire world is divided! We are divided by gender to the extent...

Dick Baynton: Fiscal Apocalypse: When?

The word apocalypse has several meanings of severity, one being catastrophe. The answer to the title question is that our great nation is already...

Dick Baynton: Celebrate but Recalibrate

We celebrate birthdays and anniversaries. We celebrate holidays. We celebrate victories in sports, business and……in wars. But sometimes, victories are hollow because someone was...

Scandal, Sex and Short Memories

Shangri-La is a fictional valley as described in a novel by British author James Hilton. The year was 1933 and the book was entitled...