Today, an article by CBS leads with the following statement: Republicans emphatically approved a toughly worded party platform at their national convention Tuesday that would ban all abortions and gay marriages, reshape Medicare into a voucher-like program and cut taxes …
I was born in 1971, so I didn’t get to see Neil Armstrong announce that “the Eagle has landed” until I was nine years old. It’s funny, because this was years after the original landing on July 20, 1969, but …
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It’s low-lying fruit, and everyone else is wailing away at it like little kids swatting at a stuffed piñata, but I’m going to jump into the latest misogynistic controversy involving Missouri Rep. Todd Akin. The Republican nominee for the U.S. …
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8:44 AM. Voices and hands and feet echo and bounce off the walls and I awake to another day in August. I shake off my nightmares and all of their painful psychological detritus. I should have known the nightmares would …
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Yesterday morning, I ran along the banks of Burke Lake. I followed a route that took me through the woods, over tree roots, and through a few cobwebs that had grown overnight. I jogged past the main marina, where young …
When I started this blog, I promised to be honest. Of course, being honest doesn’t mean saying whatever the hell is on my mind, either. If I’m not getting along with someone I love, I’m not going to go public …
I have written about the Code of Silence as it relates to PSU, and in Tuesday’s guest post, my friend and fellow blogger, Dawn Sticklen, has written about how it has affected her community. What I have not written about …
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