Month: March 2012
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The Sun Finally Sets on Britannica
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The World Book was a Ford Pickup compared to the Britannica’s Rolls-Royce. World Book could help you with…
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Transylvania, Arkansas
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There’s something jarring about looking around on a beautiful Spring day and seeing teenagers roaming the sunlit streets…
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Not quite lost in the weeds
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Without maintaining interests outside of politics, we have no way to place the issues in their proper context,…
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Sing, Baby, Sing
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The consensus seems to be that regulation of the petroleum industry is the source of the problem: with…
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When Destiny Calls…
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One hundred thirty-six years ago today, Alexander Graham Bell called his assistant, Thomas Watson, into his office by…
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The Good Old Days
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The temperature tonight is descending into the thirties. (Single digits, centigrade, for those of you who measure things…
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I heard it through the grapevine
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This afternoon I found myself looking for a specific historical reference to use in one of my incredibly…
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You’ve come a long way, baby…
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Baby? Maybe women have not actually come all that far. Rush Limbaugh’s bizarre tirade against Sandra Fluke generated…
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Basically Bad?
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Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum — and in somewhat less strident tones, Mitt Romney — keep telling us that…
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