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Playing the lottery long shot
I know all the arguments against playing the lottery, starting with the most obvious: The odds of hitting a big winner are ridiculously small. Infinitesimal, ...
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Joe Rogers: The fat dilemma
A friend recently reported that he’d slimmed down from his high water mark of 276 pounds to 212. I felt inclined to congratulate him, but ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, August 28, 2017 8:59 am
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Short takes on long subjects
A column for the Twitter mentality. No thoughts over 140 characters. And none of them presidential: If you could hook the US to an anger ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, August 21, 2017 10:40 am
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Mississippi road trip potholes
My Mississippi road trip is in the books now, and I hope you’ll read about my mostly happy adventures here and in Oxford Magazine in ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, August 14, 2017 11:01 am
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Joe Rogers: Mississippi road trip potholes
My Mississippi road trip is in the books now, and I hope you’ll read about my mostly happy adventures here and in Oxford Magazine in ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, August 14, 2017 8:00 am
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Joe Rogers: The brick wall in my family tree
That handsome, bearded fellow you see there (note the uncanny resemblance?) is the reason I am a Mississippian. That’s Great-great-grandpa Joe W. Rogers, who at ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, July 31, 2017 5:00 am
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Joe Rogers: Optimists vs. pessimists
Psychological theories abound on why conservatives and liberals think differently. One, for example, holds that conservatives are more intuitive, and liberals more analytical. Another contends ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, July 24, 2017 6:08 am
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Joe Rogers: When dragons ate the sun
I’m being tempted by a moon shadow. Moon shadow, moon shadow. You’re welcome, fellow Cat Stevens fans. I’m talking of course about the solar eclipse ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, July 17, 2017 5:40 am
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Joe Rogers: Mama’s “hubba hubba”
If only I could ask Mama one more question… In the days and weeks after her funeral I spent hours sorting through the considerable amount ...
by Joe Rogers, Monday, July 10, 2017 6:08 am
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Joe Rogers: An American pilgrimage
In an early celebration of our nation’s birthday, I visited Washington, D.C., last week. O.K., that’s a fib. I actually visited to celebrate my own ...