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Jun.17.2013
A recent phone conversation:
A good-looking guy on his Verizon car phone riding home from work: “Hey baby.”
A better-looking blonde lady, wearing a revealing nighty, with large breasts, lying on a bed: “Hey.”
Guy: “What do you want to do tonight when I get...
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Jun.17.2013
The best place to start a story is at the beginning. I was born the first child of John William Haslam and Lou Anne (pronounced Annie) Skelton Haslam. They named me John William Haslam Jr. I weighed almost 10 pounds and I was born on a Wednesday night on November 9, 1955. It was in the...
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Jun.17.2013
Chapter 21
Years Earlier – South Carolina
The affair between the young Reverend Bobby Lee Hunt and Sue Beckton lasted about a year. Bobby Lee thought it was about love. Sue Beckton knew it was only about sex.
Each time he visited her he...
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Jun.16.2013
Well today is Father’s Day, and I should write the obligatory column about how much my Dad meant to me, and he did mean a lot to me. I would give almost anything to be able to play just one more round of golf with him. I can’t do that, so I have decided to take another direction, and my Dad...
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Jun.16.2013
I remember the first time I went to work in Texas. It was at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and one of the Texans helping me on the job surprised me when he just blurted out, for no apparent reason, “I wish we would build a fence around Texas to keep the rest of y’all outta here.”...
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Jun.15.2013
Are all politicians naturally stupid, or do they become stupid after they get sworn into office?
This is a question that mortal man may never be able to answer.
One thing I believe on which you will get little to no debate is that politicians are certainly stupid while they are...
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Jun.15.2013
Are all politicians naturally stupid, or do they become stupid after they get sworn into office?
This is a question that mortal man may never be able to answer.
One thing I believe on which you will get little to no debate is that politicians are certainly stupid while they are...
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Jun.14.2013
When I’m not thinking, I am pretty much thoughtless.
When I am thinking a lot, does that make me thoughtful?
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Jun.14.2013
Chapter 20
Saturday Afternoon
The drive from Cincinnati to Knoxville, Tennessee was uneventful for Marcus and Jimmy Rae. They did slow down slightly when they went through the Cumberland Gap region at the Kentucky-Tennessee state line. The mountain scenery was...
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Jun.12.2013
If Hollywood had waited 51 years later to make the all-time great movie adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, and if the setting of the movie could have been in Sylacauga, Alabama instead of Monroeville, Alabama, Director Robert Mulligan would have selected Van Wilkins to...
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Jun.11.2013
If you pay any attention to the weather shows on TV, then you know about the big, giant, red cloud that appeared on the weather radar near Huntsville, Alabama last Tuesday. The cloud looked like a super-cell thunderstorm with a red center and yellow edges.
Y’all know the drill when...
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Jun.11.2013
Chapter 19
Years Earlier – South Carolina
Even at 42 years old, Mae Witherow was a good-looking woman. Although her adult life had been full of disappointment and uncertainty, the years had been good to her. She was born Mae Jones in Moncks Corner, South...
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Jun.10.2013
Chapter 18
Saturday Noon
Officer John Blackman was eating lunch alone in his Batesville, Indiana, patrol car when the manager of the Skyline Chili store came running out to his car frantically waving his arms like a man in trouble. Blackman had his left front...
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Jun.09.2013
“The Ski King is dead . . . long live the new Ski King.”
That is what I said when I heard the news.
One of my mythical heroes died the other day. It happened a couple of weeks ago on a splendid Sunday afternoon, drenched in sunshine with a gentle breeze blowing – truly a day...
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Jun.09.2013
Tuesday is the 50th anniversary of Alabama Governor George C. Wallace’s stand in the school doors at the University of Alabama. In my opinion, it was one of the darkest days in my home state’s history.
I found the article in the link below, by Charles J. Dean, a freelance reporter...
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I would rather climb a mountain than read about someone else climbing a mountain.”
—Good friend Charlie VanValkenburg.
About John
Author of new novel BANK SHOT, John Haslam was born the oldest son in a textile mill family in small town Alabama. He evolved from a wannabe athlete and a fair country student into an award-winning sports writer in his first career. Later, he became one of...
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Causes John Haslam Supports
I support the Constitution of the United States of America.
I support St. Jude's Hospital.
I believe in GOD.
John’s Favorite Books
The Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Prince of Tides, Conroy
Without Remorse, Tom Clancy
The Testament, John...
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