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If You Want to Live, Take Off Your Underwear
I heard the story almost as soon as I rolled out of bed this morning. MSNBC was announcing that WalMart was planning to embed tags in male underwear in order to track these items of clothing for inventory and … Continue reading
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The Mad Scientist and the Poet
I assume everything in the world will soon be coded, indexed, filed and instantly retrievable. I just got an email that my U.S. Letters Patents are now available on line, the latest being www.google.com/patents/about?id=J_c7AAAAEBAJ… Of course, fiber optics and optical … Continue reading
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Sometimes Living Well Merely Involves Surviving Disasters
It is the losing of one’s health That kills; not the loss of one’s wealth. Disasters, like the execution of a sentence to be hanged come the dawn, have a remarkable way of focusing one’s mind. And … Continue reading
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What’s with Purina? Don’t They Know Who Buys Their Cat Food.
I have three Siamese cats who love Fancy Feast, a brand of cat food manufactured by Purina. You can read about it at Purina.com or fancyfeast.com. If you like weird colors. Unfortunately, I am having a hard … Continue reading
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The Best and Brightest
George Burns once observed that it was too bad that the folks who really knew how to run this country were busy cutting hair and driving taxis. Given that tidbit, it’s easy to come up with a little … Continue reading
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Smoke this House
Carol is not only an editor of textbooks from ESL to supplemental science and English, she maintains her critical skills by teaching English to foreign students through our local library and over the years, it turns out that … Continue reading
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Good Help Is Hard to Find
Here is the opening paragraph of a short story that I am thinking about writing. If you feel challenged, go ahead and see what you can do. I would love to read your take. One thing … Continue reading
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Apologia
BP CEO Tony Hayward no doubt intended his “I am deeply sorry” apology to resonate before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday, but it quickly lost its steam with GOP Texas Rep. Joe Barton’s stunning apology to BP for … Continue reading
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Paths
Random footfalls on the forest floor, here Where some lead, some follow, no path’s there Until time and concourse make a new path appear.
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