Marc Munroe Dion

Fall River

Columnist and Reporter at The Herald News

Herald News columnist and reporter. Jumping into the electronic digital future like you'd jump into a swimming pool full of porcupines

Articles

The Fifth Estate

1 week ago | arcamax.com | Marc Munroe Dion

If you've been a reporter long enough, you learn that when people say you're a "member of the Fourth Estate," they mean to insult you and to let you know they read a book once. The only exception is lawyers, who use the term the same way they use Latin, as a way to remind you that they've read a lot of books.
The Fifth Estate, by Marc Dion

1 week ago | creators.com | Marc Munroe Dion

If you've been a reporter long enough, you learn that when people say you're a "member of the Fourth Estate," they mean to insult you and to let you know they read a book once. The only exception is lawyers, who use the term the same way they use Latin, as a way to remind you that they've read a lot of books.
Send In the Marines!

1 week ago | dailyherald.com | Marc Munroe Dion

Marc Munroe Dion Send in the Marines! There! That sounds tough. Say it. Just say it. Yell it into the silence of your living room. “Send in the Marines!” When you yell that, you automatically make a fist. From the halls of Orange County. To the shores of Redondo Beach. America hasn't really won a war overseas since 1945, so I guess we figured we could win one at home. If nothing else, you don't spend as much money getting the troops to the war when it's at home.
Send In the Marines!

2 weeks ago | arcamax.com | Marc Munroe Dion

Send in the Marines! Damn! That sounds tough. Say it. Just say it. Yell it into the silence of your living room. "Send in the Marines!"When you yell that, you automatically make a fist. From the halls of Orange County. To the shores of Redondo Beach. America hasn't really won a war overseas since 1945, so I guess we figured we could win one at home. If nothing else, you don't spend as much money getting the troops to the war when it's at home.
Send In the Marines!, by Marc Dion

2 weeks ago | eks.creators.com | Marc Munroe Dion

Send in the Marines! Damn! That sounds tough. Say it. Just say it. Yell it into the silence of your living room. "Send in the Marines!"When you yell that, you automatically make a fist. From the halls of Orange County. To the shores of Redondo Beach. America hasn't really won a war overseas since 1945, so I guess we figured we could win one at home. If nothing else, you don't spend as much money getting the troops to the war when it's at home.
Six things I did before the apocalypse

2 weeks ago | dailyherald.com | Marc Munroe Dion

Marc Munroe Dion Old guys like me always believe the world is getting worse. You're young and strong and you're hell in a fistfight, and you figure if you lose your white-collar job, you can just go tend bar somewhere until you get another job. Yeah. That's beautiful, but it doesn't last. If you're not careful, in your later years, you start being nostalgic for things that either didn't mean anything or weren't very good. Penny candy. Pay phones. Stick shifts. Really open racism.
6 Things I Did Before the Apocalypse

3 weeks ago | arcamax.com | Marc Munroe Dion

Old guys like me always believe the world is getting worse. You're young and strong and you're hell in a fistfight, and you figure if you lose your white-collar job, you can just go tend bar somewhere until you get another job. Yeah. That's beautiful, but it doesn't last. If you're not careful, in your later years, you start being nostalgic for things that either didn't mean anything or weren't very good. Penny candy. Payphones. Stick shifts. Really open racism.
6 Things I Did Before the Apocalypse, by Marc Dion

3 weeks ago | creators.com | Marc Munroe Dion

Old guys like me always believe the world is getting worse. You're young and strong and you're hell in a fistfight, and you figure if you lose your white-collar job, you can just go tend bar somewhere until you get another job. Yeah. That's beautiful, but it doesn't last. If you're not careful, in your later years, you start being nostalgic for things that either didn't mean anything or weren't very good. Penny candy. Payphones. Stick shifts. Really open racism.
Abe Lincoln and the penny

3 weeks ago | dailyherald.com | Marc Munroe Dion

Marc Munroe Dion The penny, which costs more to make than it's worth, will be going away. That's a shocking reversal of government policy. Usually, the government doesn't stop producing anything that's overpriced or just plain worthless. I'm just about old enough to remember little pieces of candy that sold for a penny at a little wooden-floored store near my house called “Mac's.” The man behind the counter was, of course, Mac. If there was a woman behind the counter, it was Mrs. Mac.
Here's a tip on taxation

4 weeks ago | dailyherald.com | Marc Munroe Dion

Marc Munroe Dion There are two things some of us know about taxes. The first is that taxes are unfair because, “Hey! I earned that money.” The second is that if we didn't pay ANY taxes, then every government service would be free because if you don't pay for something, then it's free, right? This is the kind of math that keeps the lottery in business. The people running the lottery don't use that kind of math, but the people buying the tickets do.