"filled with the same platitudes" & Why not? Same speechwriters; different candidate. The only candidate in recent memory who went beyond...
The creation story runs about 2 paragraphs in Genesis: that hardly constitutes a curriculum. I know there's some topic called creation science,...
When I was in Navy boot camp, we had to print everything, including letters home. Wherever there were two "O's together, I drew eyebrows, eyes, a...
It was years ago I read somewhere that 40% of illegal aliens here in States were Irish. Guess cuz England carved up Ireland, just like it did...
Well, isn't it hard NOT to be fooled if campaign ads are produced only by & for lobbyists & influence peddlers? Even independents, so-called,...
"play by their own rules" Many, many years ago, I looked in applying for a teaching position @an exclusive private grade school (K thru 8) in the...
But, really, does anyone deliberately elect a "bad" representatives? They campaign on the same ol' claims. We find out they're bad only after...
You can find a biography of the co-founder of the Green Berets @amazon: From the OSS to the Green Berets. Aaron Bank spent his youth & early...
OTOH, I voted for the first time in 1972: Spock & Hobson on the People's Party ticket. I was never a supporter of Nixon, altho Noam Chomsky's...
Then you'll love this even more: "non-essential" was deemed, apparently, too demeaning, so the congr. & W.H. marketeers & P.R. wonks came up w/...
They like to rant about "team," but they're possessive & defensive about their "turf." There's stuff on the 'Net these days, including from some...
I'm not so sure that phrase can be used even in jest anymore. Seems Mr. Alexis's assignment w/ the HP subcontractor The Experts was to upgrade...
Here is a guy that probably anticipated that would be his last day on earth, & he starts it by coming to work: "Sure, it'll all end for me today,...
Sartre changed his view of freedom during his life: if he'd written an answer to your question he might've said the need for people to work & earn...
Have you seen Antiwar.com? I found it a coupla years ago by accident: someone I worked w/ years back writes a column for it.
I still have both Doors-3some vinyl albums, & they're great stuff: sort of a jazz/Tex-Mex/Norteno hybrid (I've read that Manzarek attended the...
This is interesting, because I heard something similar long ago. There's a guy, Mark Hertzgard, who published a book called On Bended Knee...
The point is that it's a "what" (terror) v. a "who" (terrorists). For the folks that profit well from these schemes, a war on "who" would end...
I'm suspicious about all these wars anyway. We do tend to use militaristic terms to describe our circumstances: wars on poverty, drugs, etc.;...
For years I'd read accounts of how Marx was disappointed that his communist philosophy was so popular in Russia, long B4 the actual revolution...
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