Tom Waits on Youtube: Amazing.

There is one man who is currently walking on our planet whom, though I have never actually met, will one day tell my great-great grandchildren that I met in a bar in Istanbul over apple tea. That man is Tom Waits. He makes me proud to be an American and I consider it a joy [...]

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Healthcare Perceptions

If you count the number of times that Fox News speaks about Obama’s Universal Healthcare plan, you could travel from hear to the moon on hot air. And yet Obama is not advocating a Universal healthcare system, and to think that he is advocating that, you are sorely deceiving yourself: read the policy for yourself.
Obama [...]

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Reasons to Vote for A “Socialist”

George W as Henry V
So an elitist brother of mine is studying Shakespeare at Oxford and he’s currently reading Henry V and was referred to this article by a lecturer on Shakespearean Criticism.
The election of an “elitist” president has been decried on both sides of the aisle in this absurd quest to appeal to joe-six-pack/joe [...]

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2 Things and the Future

Thing #1:
A while back I went to a L’Abri conference in the depths of a Rochester, Minnesota winter. Ever since then, I have been receiving newsletters from Dick Keyes, a leader and scholar at the L’Abri Southborough, MA. This month’s newsletter was one of the most honestly provocative things I have ever read in my [...]

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There is no constant gardner

In other news, a human trial of an HIV prevention gel administered among a group of 6000 African women proved fairly fruitless. Read about that here

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UK Suicides

I know this is obscure and you probably won’t care that much but apparently there have been a number of suicides in the UK over the last year. Two cousins, aged 15 and 20, are the most recent victims, and you can read about their suicides here.
Anyway, after reading the article, I think I [...]

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Snow Day!

I thought I would pass on to you a few cautions about how you use those iPod earbuds, because we all know that snowy-days call for music and preventative measures.Yes. That’s right. Careful wear you point those things. No wall climbing, heart checking, or lock picking with those designer earbuds from amadana.

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Results Reporter
Out of 23 questions, you answered 14 correctly, for a final grade of 61%.

14 correct (61%)

9 incorrect (39%)

0 unanswered (0%)

So for today’s post I thought I would talk about my score on a practice quiz on imperative, indicative, subjunctive, verb moods, pronoun cases, participles, gerunds, and infinitives. Because apparently my present knowledge of them [...]

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Once upon a Saturday

A Blue Banana
There isn’t much that turns my head more than a blue banana
I think about them most on Thursday afternooners.
This morning I ate one for breakfast
Blueberry-Banana-Blueberry-Banana
Dear Ginger – Your bread was delicious
When I stay up till five and sleep till
eleven
nothing makes me feel warmer, saner, more like a
Wednesday morning in July.
To the Man in [...]

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Ode to a Mexican Flagging the Bus

Your hand was stretched out
from your body – You waved
and signaled, your feet bouncing up and down as you waited
for the crosswalk signal to
change. Your voice was silence, your English – poor.
“Do you want me to hold
the bus for you man?” says the dude with the duffel bag who
stood in the middle of the sidewalk
waiting [...]

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