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Ear today, gone tomorrow

I saw a living legend at a local club recently. I don’t go to nightclubs very often, anymore. What was ..


Thinking outside the lunch box

Are school lunches making our kids obese? I don’t know a lot about school lunches because I carried my lunch ..


The Lower 47

It was 20 years ago today that Texas seceded from the United States. At the time, many Texans thought things ..


A really big show of generation gaps

A TV commentator said the other day that with all that was going on in the world today, President Obama ..


The garden I’m eatin’

Here’s how I raised a wonderful, healthy, fresh vegetable garden working on it only 10 minutes a day. I’d ..


I tweet, therefore I yammer

– 9:00:00: I signed up for Twitter this morning to see what everyone is making such a fuss about. This ..


The reports of our decline have been greatly exaggerated

I just got an e-mail from a European friend, an exchange student who spent his senior year of high ..


Invest in gold: little, yellow, different

CNN (Colonial News Network) June 1804 “Nothing has been heard from Lewis and Clark since they left St. Louis in mid-May. ..


Keep the filth on the net and off the streets

A Cook County, Ill., sheriff is trying to bust craigslist.org, the (almost) free, online classified ad Web site, for running ..


Collecting karma

I got a letter from a collection agency representing one of my doctors. One of my many, many doctors. Let’s ..


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