| Going Out Guide: FInd something to do this weekend
The following is the Going Out Guide, found weekly inside the GO! section of the Hamilton JournalNews and Middletown Journal. To report an upcoming event, click the entertainment link on this Web site, then click "Submit Your Event."
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Bluntly put, governor’s motives are a mystery
The most frequent question I got last week: What's the real story behind Gov. Matt Blunt's astonishing about-face on running for re-election? And here's the honest truth: I don't know. I've tried to find out. I've dialed more digits in the last four days than a desperate politician in search of campaign dollars. I've reached a conclusion: No one knows. No one, save for Blunt himself and immediate family members. But given the length of the skid marks Blunt applied to his fast-moving re-election bid, there are lots of reasons to believe that some other explanation exists beyond the rationale that Blunt laid out Wednesday. That rationale, you may recall, was this: I've accomplished all that I set out to do. I look forward to having more time with my wife and toddler son.
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Missed opportunities dominate my list, which I call "An Unspecified Number of Places I Want to Go Before I Cross Them All Off and Start a New List." In 1990, as I've related before in these pages, I was all set to visit the storied Vale of Kashmir, but canceled the trip when a bomb went off in the Srinigar marketplace. I figured I'd give things a year or two to cool off and then rebook. Eighteen years later, I'm resigned to the fact that they may never cool off, at least not in my lifetime. Then there was the trip to Burundi to see mountain gorillas. We had to call that one off when the genocidal rage of Rwanda spilled over the border, and now my wife Jeri's beleaguered immune system has forced her to permanently cross that part of the world off her list. For a couple of decades now I've had Turkey's Mount Ararat on my "watch list." It's a colossal, snow-covered volcano in far eastern Turkey, near the borders of Iran and Armenia.
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