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MY RECENT POSTS
- We've Come a Long Way, Baby
(First Post)
August 09, 2011 11:30PM - How To Raise National Merit
Scholars
April 28, 2011 08:48PM - Will Virginia Stay in the
Union?
April 12, 2011 09:42PM - Winter Interest
February 22, 2011 01:26AM - How We Learn
September 02, 2010 11:54AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “"I didn't really want to
kill myself. I wanted the pain
to
stop."
It's
j…”
November 17, 2011 06:00PM - “I can't take my eyes off
that boy in the tie, from his
gaze.
Who knows, looking
a…”
October 31, 2011 01:57PM - “This is great! You sound
very resourceful, and I'm glad
older
people can learn
na…”
October 27, 2011 08:22PM - “PS (I know what you mean
about the compliments making
you
nervous. But here's
the…”
October 27, 2011 03:46PM - “I want you back, Bryan
Harrison. You're
something
special.”
October 27, 2011 03:39PM
Lainey's Links
Every new gardener enters the universe of flora in the same way: through a narrow path of conspicuous performers. We fall in love with the profusion of color, bright and long-lasting, that annuals provide, and we cover every bare spot with blazing flats of oranges and purples and hot pinks. Then… Read full post »
By November of 2006 Ted Haggard was at his professional peak: pastor of the humongous New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and leader of the National Association of Evangelicals, an organization of 45,000 churches whose mission is to consolidate the influence of American/… Read full post »
Second Update: See bottom of this post for embedded video from wearchange.org for footage of events leading to Luke's arrest.
OK, in a nutshell:
Connie Shultz, the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist (and lovely wife of Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown), wrote about trying to protect newspapers' rights to their reporting. She and a publishing attorney, with the help
I don't notice the competing paper banners until the day is over and I'm exhausted and demoralized. YOU are RESPONSIBLE for your own ACTIONS! goes one, with the lower case letters cursive and blue, the capitals a screaming orange print. And the other, in what the kids call “bubble letters,&rdqu/… Read full post »
Most people overestimate the role that merit plays in their lives, and by “most people,” I mean the vast majority who has seen some measure of conventional success.[1] By corollary, people underestimate chance, evolution, history, government, and culture as factors that influence th/… Read full post »
Daytime and evening phone banks are qualitatively different. On Tuesday mornings I wax philosophical with Strongsville’s universe of undecided voters about the local homeless man who registered 79 times at the behest of ACORN (I assure them that not only was the man not going to vote 79 times,… Read full post »
My childhood friend Janice used to call her brother a slug, and I always took it to mean he was lazy. Now I’m wondering if there wasn’t a hint of the repugnant intended as well. I/
It may not play well here on Open Salon, but I thought I saw a real debate tonight. As the two candidates sparred over tax plans, the economy, and foreign policy, they went back and forth, clarifying issues and positions in a way that
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“‘Bye baby,” a mischievous Emmett “Bobo” Till tossed out to the pretty white woman as he left her family’s small-time grocery store—and then, full of the bravado a fourteen-year-old knows when surrounded by a dozen friends egging him
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