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Feb 1, 2012, 10:36 pm
When I was a young boy, many years ago, the lamps in our street were run on gas. I would enjoy staring out the front window of our house at dusk, watching as the old lamplighter arrived on his bicycle at the street lamp outside our front gate.
I don’t know how old he was, but to me he seemed as a... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2012, 10:17 pm
Recently I wrote of the media indignation when images came to light of US marines urinating on Taliban corpses. US television news channels were aghast at the very idea that this nation’s ‘heroes’ could be capable of such behavior.
Back in 2005, when the horrors of the massacre in the Iraqi t... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2011, 12:58 pm
Pay a visit to the ’100-Acre Wood House’ and savor some more titbits of rural life on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It’s only a ‘click’ away.
The 100-Acre Wood House
I’d love to meet the Chinese gentleman whose only identity, to those of us in the West, is ‘L22′. I’d love to kick... Comment - Like
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Apr 15, 2011, 1:25 pm
No doubt we all remember the weeks of turmoil in Madison, Wisconsin, when the governor, Scott Walker, tried to take away the bargaining rights of teachers, firefighters, police officers, and other public sector workers, ostensibly to save money for the state.
Finally, Scott Walker admits what we al... Comment - Like
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Apr 12, 2011, 9:35 pm
Question: What happens to a country when the education system is left to rot for a few decades?
Answer: The population grows ever more ignorant of matters it should really be cognizant of.
Take America’s so-called ‘national debt’, as an example.
For years, both Democrats and Republicans hav... Comment - Like
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Apr 1, 2011, 1:20 pm
There is a meanness spreading like a plague throughout America. It is a meanness fed by cold-hearted, uncaring, American people who allow their twisted, out-of-step, principles to take precedence over the most basic forms of humanity.
Examples abound, from the lunatic right-wing who would completel... Comment - Like
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