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A Society of Shame Attached to Everything Shame Attached to Everything

A Society of Shame Attached to Everything

Merrie Soltis January 9, 2025
The problem with nagging people all the time in an effort to better them is that eventually...
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When a Feller Needs a Friend ow

When a Feller Needs a Friend

Clare Briggs January 8, 2025
Folk remedy for nigh-frostbite.
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Induction! induction

Induction!

Mike Schilling January 8, 2025
The years Y = 1, 9, 36, 100, 225, 441, 784, 1296, 2025, 3025 … all follow...
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Donald Trump Mar-a-Lago Press Conference: Watch It For Yourself Trump press conference

Donald Trump Mar-a-Lago Press Conference: Watch It For Yourself

Andrew Donaldson January 8, 2025
Donald Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, and news media and social media reacted. Watch it...
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Moving Picture Showing How Two Men Get Acquainted table

Moving Picture Showing How Two Men Get Acquainted

Clare Briggs January 7, 2025
I don't know if they're at the club or a restaurant or what. Maybe it doesn't matter.
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Don’t Bother Us 2025-01-06 W&P C7860

Don’t Bother Us

Clare Briggs January 6, 2025
Something there is that doesn't love a wall
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The Piketon Massacre Tragedy, Continued The Piketon Massacre

The Piketon Massacre Tragedy, Continued

Em Carpenter January 6, 2025
Jake Wagner's sentencing was expected to be a formality...For the Rhoden, Manley, and Gilley families, it ended...
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The Virtue of Tuning Out The Virtue of Tuning Out

The Virtue of Tuning Out

Alex M. Parker January 6, 2025
Not letting the deluge of news overwhelm and demoralize you is a challenge of this age–but not...
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Re-Open the Asylums: A New Take Re-Open the Asylums

Re-Open the Asylums: A New Take

SarahStook January 6, 2025
It is imperative that we balance compassion with realism and public safety. We must talk about crime,...
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What is happiness? machine

What is happiness?

Clare Briggs January 4, 2025
I swear to gosh, my grandmother had that exact sewing machine.
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Saturday Morning Gaming: Inscryption enscryption5

Saturday Morning Gaming: Inscryption

Jaybird January 4, 2025
From the maker of Pony Island, another game that isn't the game you think it is.
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2024 Year in Review: Movies, Music, and More! 2024 Year in Review

2024 Year in Review: Movies, Music, and More!

Russell Michaels January 4, 2025
Sorry I am getting this to you after the start of 2025, but life has a habit...
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POETS Day! Edward Thomas Edward Thomas

POETS Day! Edward Thomas

Ben Sears January 3, 2025
It’s true that he didn’t enjoy writing much of what he produced, but the needs of his...
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Series! Recap of World Series of the 1930s Recap of World Series of the 1930s

Series! Recap of World Series of the 1930s

Mike Schilling January 3, 2025
I had such a good time putting together the recent recap of 2020s World Series, I decided...
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Weekend Plans Post: Leonard Cohen jealous

Weekend Plans Post: Leonard Cohen

Jaybird January 2, 2025
A little bit of honky tonk puts a cigarette back in the hand of the song and...
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A Suburban New Year’s Tragedy, or What’s the Use? plainwater

A Suburban New Year’s Tragedy, or What’s the Use?

Clare Briggs January 2, 2025
Ripped from the headlines!
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Of Course, You Postpone the Sugar Bowl postpone the sugar bowl

Of Course, You Postpone the Sugar Bowl

Andrew Donaldson January 2, 2025
Postponing the Sugar Bowl for 24 hours is more than reasonable. That doesn't make anyone "soft", it...
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Happy New Year! Briggs

Happy New Year!

Clare Briggs January 1, 2025
Oh Skin-nay! Yoo-hoo-oo! Hap-pay Noo Year!
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A Man on the Inside peaches

A Man on the Inside

Jaybird January 1, 2025
I really liked the show and I think that you will probably find stuff to like in...
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Midnight December 31st jiminy

Midnight December 31st

Clare Briggs December 31, 2024
The last Days of Real Sport of 2024
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