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Feb.18.2013
Better World Books has just made it easier to promote literacy as a global goal. Drop boxes are currently available… EVERYWHERE! As part of a tireless commitment, this online book location is innovative in their unyielding efforts.
They donate to Books for...
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Feb.18.2013
What could be finer than a national holiday set aside for citizens to barely notice anything different at all except that the mail doesn't get delivered!! Yay!!!
However, when I was a wee bonnie lass, we actually celebrated Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays in school. We knew when their...
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Jan.06.2013
My new piece on guns. The Good Life
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Jun.12.2011
Well, not my thing, usually. Kept me compulsively reading in much the same way your gaze has to follow the hit tennis ball. Potboiling cliffhanger in its most base form, but that's what works, right? Characters are essentially just names; you root for the good guys because they're...
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Dec.21.2010
continued from the previous post..
Wandering between the mills and their enormous water tanks, I came to the edge of the industrial plain—a cliff overlooking a long stretch of the Ohio River. A hundred feet below, a swampy basin lay strewn with rusty barrels leaking iridescent toxins, tires,...
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Apr.20.2010
The New York Society Library (one of the Big Apple’s oldest locations) found in its ledgers two missing books that were checked out by the Father of our Country. You guessed it… George Washington is delinquent on returning Law of Nations, and a volume of debates from Britain’s House of Commons....
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Mar.02.2010
Today was like driving with all the traffic lights showing a permanent green. It was coasting down Highway 1 with some jazz on the radio and the windows open and a fervent dash to see the sunset. Today was a million smiles that fell onto my face like a welcomed feather down quilt in the dismal...
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Feb.11.2010
Is heterosexuality a sin? What should society do about all the heterosexuals in our midst? A decade into the twenty-first century these questions confront the nation.
Many heterosexuals feel they should be allowed to openly live their lives, marry, raise children, go to Disneyland—in other words,...
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Dec.18.2009
In light of the recent very public marital scandal involving Des Moines, Iowa handyman Hubert Bothem, it seems that the time has come for the Daily Sam to step up and offer some basic tips and guidelines for how to properly have an affair. America has changed since the days when George Washington...
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Nov.11.2009
If George Washington had lost the American Revolution against Great Britain, he and the signers of the Declaration of Independence would have been hung, and crows would have pecked on their corpses. Today, they would have been known as traitors instead of the Founding Fathers of a great nation.
In...
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