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ABOUT MICKIE WINKLER
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If you ever agonized about what to call a female mailman in this age of political correctness, if you ever engaged in combat with Comcast, if you ever searched on match.com for a compatible kidney, if you ever wonder why circa 24000 laws are passed each year by the states (no kidding), or why I got a sh*tload of traffic tickets when I was mayor of Menlo Park, check out Mickie Winkler's book of flash humor each anecdote punctuated with a cartoon. https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Police-Other-Earthling-Antics/dp/1645754677 (Austin Macauley, 2020. Winkler's stint in politics inspired her humor--and her conviction that there is no intelligent life on earth. Enjoy!
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THE DOWNSIDE OF POWER From Politics Police and Other Earthling Antics “Hello madam mayor,” the policeman said with a smile. I got off my bicycle to return the greeting and he said, “do you know what you just did? You just crossed the railroad tracks after the gates were on the way down." " Usually,” he continued, “I just give bikers a lecture, but I can make an exception for the Mayor.” And he wrote me a ticket. Crossing the tracks was not all I had done. I had voted against giving a precipitous salary increase to the police unit in our town. More dangerous than standing up to police was standing up to the framers of our heritage tree ordinance. I renamed this ordinance the “Heritage Twig ordinance“ for which I was accused of liking people more than trees. There were the dog owners who wanted to use the fenced in Little-League field for a dog run when the field was not being used by the League. When I warned that the park would become known...
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THE WATERING OF THE DECORATIVE TREE CONSTERNATION I overheard some friends at my house one night saying: "Her tree looks more real than ours." Why was this innocent remark, even compliment, so upsetting? Why did it keep me awake that night? BACKGROUND About six months ago my husband and I decided we needed an indoor tree--for decorative value and to clean the air. We went to The Nursery and picked out a leafy, oxygen-exchanging machine, which according to directions, “would thrive in conditions of semi-light with weekly watering, at which time the tree should be turned.” And we rented a van large enough to bring the tree home unscathed. The tree looked beautiful. As the weeks passed, I did find it to have two unique characteristics. Firstly, after my husband watered the tree, which he did at 9:00 AM every Sunday, I had to take a syringe and suck up the excess water which just seemed to pool in the bottom of the plastic plate on which the tree sat. In my mind, ...