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Sep.11.2012
It’s 9.20 on a Saturday night and I head for my bed. Some may say what a boring life to be going to bed so early on a Saturday, but I work fulltime and have three children to look after so a social life isn't something I try to fit in.
This Saturday night, a vibration in my pocket tickles...
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Jun.10.2012
Son Guy was up and about early, after his altercation last night with a group of rowdies upstairs.
We are to make a report about the incident.
Son Jason came over to pick up messages.
I completed a run to fix any problems on the computer.
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May.07.2012
This story sounds like it jumped straight off the pages of a gruesome science fiction novel... but it didn’t. It’s true.
If you have a sensitive stomach do not ready any further.
In northeastern China the bodies of dead babies, and possible foetuses too, are being chopped up into small pieces, the...
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Apr.19.2012
Shadow Hobbies
Somebody signing the motel registry
left-handed, someone
else pretending to be my dad or brother. The vodka
from my father's boot
in the pocket of my jeans jacket.
Kneeling, a new kind of cardboard angel.
Bending, and falling
out of windows.
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Apr.09.2012
At the beginning of the 20th century, after 2 bloody opium wars, the hugely profitable worldwide trade in drugs was, according to the UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), becoming ‘a global problem’. In 1909, relenting to pressure wielded by anti-opium activists, a group of foreign...
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Mar.23.2012
Yes, I jumped on the Twitter bandwaggon for this one and said: "I did get high at St. Martin's Press but I thought it was the elevator." Still I did enjoy the tour and the attention and the offer to carry away as many books as I could from their stores. And the views of New York were grand....
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Feb.11.2012
A Harvard professor, Rachel St. John, has just published a useful and comprehensive short history of the western U.S.-Mexico border (meaning from El Paso to San Diego.)
It is a tale that approaches geography as a multiform kind of space: social space, indigenous space,...
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Jan.27.2012
I walk by the house on my way to the beach every day. It's a massive, faceless house but it overlooks the ocean. And here, that means everything.
Last week, I noticed several cars parked in the driveway. Very nice cars. Black, sleek, tinted windows. For diplomats and rock stars....
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Jan.15.2012
I recently read an article about a woman in Indiana who decided to teach her fourteen year old son a lesson about the consequences of lying, drug dealing, and stealing. She made him wear a sandwich board at a busy intersection that said, " I lie, I steal, I sell drug (sic), I don't follow the...
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Jan.12.2012
This commentary is rated MA for mature audiences. It contains some foul language, although honestly, only so much as is needed to get the damned point across. Parental discretion is advised…
Attention to all self-proclaimed liberals and progressives.
I would like to properly introduce you to a...
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