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br> -- Bill Clark br> Stilwell, Kansas /p> p> Mr. Orlet got the old saying wrong. It is a horse that will work itself to death and a mule that is smart enough to quit when he gets tired or overheated. I loved the article by the way. br> -- Adam Dennis /p> p> AS GOES OHIO br> Re: W. James Antle III's What's the Matter with Ohio? : /p>

I grew up in Cleveland, and like hordes of young Ohioans in the '70s, I couldn't wait to get out of there. Stirrings of youthful adventure? Sure. But it was more than that. Ohio was one of the places Bruce Springsteen described in his songs -- all about blue collar macho and blue collar limitations: tax-and-spend government that was corruption once removed, and the social cost of steel-belt economies circling the drain. In short, a grave of hope and initiative where new ideas were kicked to death in the parking lot. (Fix YOU for thinking , you fairy!) If Steve Jobs or Bill Gates had lived in Ohio, we would still be using IBM Selectric typewriters today, and slide rules too.

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