When you stay at hotels around the country, visit a bar or restaurant, find yourself in some public place where there's a tv, you're more than likely to see on that tv either a commercial for Dulcolax or Fox News. The...
In the aftermath of this year's election, I was in the midst of throwing out all the books in my bookshelf that contained the word "sense" ("Sense and Sensibility", "Common Sense", "The Sixth Sense - Novelization", "Senseless   -...
I had received this phone call three times before. At about one in the afternoon my phone rang. I wasn't expecting anyone to call and I thought it might be just another telemarketer or maybe a wrong number. Looking back,...

Acronymia

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Now I like hot breakfast cereals and drugged kids as much as anyone but there's one thing I don't need and that's more acronyms! There are way too many and they're just not funny.
Remember that Monty Python skit where the Texas movie producer gets a bunch of screenwriters in a room and badgers them all until they are reduced to hiding under the table? The Texas producer actually reminds me a lot...
There's been a campaign going on around the blogosphere for awhile, advocating that MSNBC ban Pat Buchanan from appearing on the network. Buchanan is a political analyst, who, in the wake of the tragedy in Norway, wrote an editorial, which...

Sgt. Bergdahl

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As far as Sgt. Bergdahl is concerned, I think he should be given the benefit of doubt. We don't know what he witnessed to make him walk off into the enemy territory. Some soldiers are more attuned to combat while others are less so. I feel that he was overcome by his experience.
1961’s West Side Story is hailed as one of the greatest movies of all time – certainly in the musical genre – so Steven Spielberg had some huge shoes to fill when he set out to re-adapt the iconic Broadway show. Here is where his version stands out.
A Cop Rapes a Woman at Gunpoint. An 11-Year-Old Rape Victim is Smeared. KBR sues a rape accuser for $2 Million. What is it with our inability to find justice for victims? If events of the last few months have sent any...
Greed seems to rule when it comes to coal, oil, fracking, and the nuclear industries. Renewable energy sources are available and if the big corporations would put some of their obscene profits into solar, electric cars, wind, and geothermal energy we could start to reverse some of the harm done.

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