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May 14, 2012 – 2:44 pm | 7 views

Last Tuesday’s Republican primary in the State of Indiana represented a sad day for America, and yet another step forward for the ultra-conservative Tea Party movement.  Richard Lugar, a thirty-six year veteran of Congress, known as being one of the last  remaining moderate Republicans in the Senate, was soundly defeated by Tea-Party backed candidate Richard Mourdock.  Ironically, the political virtues …

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BLOGGERS VS NEWSPAPERS

October 5, 2009 – 10:00 am | 21 Comments | 1 views
BLOGGERS VS NEWSPAPERS

On September 16, 2009 I wrote a post entitled, “The Lemonade Stand: I DID A BAD, BAD THING.” Within the post I listed of number of topics which I thought were worthy of concern and addressed each one to some extent. The response was terrific. I had a lot of fun creating the premise and the back and forth with …

Recurring Nightmares?

August 26, 2009 – 1:36 pm | 16 Comments | 2 views
Recurring Nightmares?

I guess we all have them, these recurring nightmares. The one I have most frequently is one in which I am back in college and late for one of my English Lit. classes in the ivy-covered building of Old Main. I can see the wide wooden steps which lead from the formal foyer in Old Main to my classes on the …

Laments From the Third Tier

June 16, 2009 – 8:49 am | 15 Comments | 1 views
Laments From the Third Tier

Sinatra sang, “Regrets, I’ve had a few but then again, too few to mention.” We all have regrets in our lives but sometimes there are smaller things to lament. They don’t rank as high up as the top rung, so I denote them as being third-tier laments. No, this is not my “Bucket List” because most of these items cannot be done or …

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