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Oh Man! Kids These Days 2021-12-02 OhMan 6148 Cherry Tree

Oh Man! Kids These Days

Clare Briggs February 21, 2022
George Washington and the Cherry Tree Edition.
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Sunday Morning! “How I Became One of the Invisible” by David Rattray David Rattray

Sunday Morning! “How I Became One of the Invisible” by David Rattray

Rufus F. February 20, 2022
David Rattray believed that poetry is a mystical language and the poet is a coyote smuggling us...
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Golfing Down South 2022-02-20 Golf 5145

Golfing Down South

Clare Briggs February 20, 2022
That guiltiest feeling
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Kim Potter Verdict: Justice is About Accountability Not Punishment kim potter

Kim Potter Verdict: Justice is About Accountability Not Punishment

Dennis Sanders February 19, 2022
In many people's eyes, Kim Potter was yet another white police officer getting away with murder. Except...
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Saturday Morning Gaming: Games for Math Club Kids vs. Games for Theater Kids debate

Saturday Morning Gaming: Games for Math Club Kids vs. Games for Theater Kids

Jaybird February 19, 2022
"Debatable" is a party game that targets an underserved population. Well, underserved in the gaming world, anyway.
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Republicans Want to Oppose Trump on This Issue. Let Them. voting rights

Republicans Want to Oppose Trump on This Issue. Let Them.

Eric Medlin February 19, 2022
Democrats have now shifted to a confused strategy of focusing on inflation and pushing Joe Manchin on...
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Danny Dreamer vs The Baby 2022-07-09 Dreamer 0087 (1909-07-11)

Danny Dreamer vs The Baby

Clare Briggs February 19, 2022
Danny tries his hand at babysitting
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POETS Day: The King of Sandusky, Ohio and RIP PJ O’Rourke PJ O'Rourke

POETS Day: The King of Sandusky, Ohio and RIP PJ O’Rourke

Ben Sears February 18, 2022
PJ O'Rourke wasn’t a favorite author. He was a doorway to understanding what thinking could be and...
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Thursday Throughput: The Trailing Edge of Omicron Edition omicron

Thursday Throughput: The Trailing Edge of Omicron Edition

Michael Siegel February 18, 2022
Does Omicron waning mean that COVID restrictions were wrong all the time and we damaged our country...
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Weekend Plans Post: Taxes Steam Autumn Sale

Weekend Plans Post: Taxes

Jaybird February 18, 2022
Ugh. Taxes.
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The Daring Smoker 2022-02-11 Sport s117 Daring Smoker

The Daring Smoker

Clare Briggs February 18, 2022
The days of real sport.
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Nicholas Kristof, We Hardly Got To Know Ye Nicholas Kristof, We Hardly Got To Know Ye

Nicholas Kristof, We Hardly Got To Know Ye

Burt Likko February 17, 2022
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An Interesting Development in the San Francisco School Board San Francisco school board

An Interesting Development in the San Francisco School Board

Jaybird February 17, 2022
A backlash against a San Francisco school board that was more interested in performative displays than actually...
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Maybe Culpa: Adventures In Outrage Email outrage email

Maybe Culpa: Adventures In Outrage Email

Ben Sears February 17, 2022
The email stylings of Neil Young, Whoopie Goldberg, Joe Rogan, Clay Travis, and Joy Ried on the...
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Something in the Soup 2022-02-10 Golf 5172 Chairman VI

Something in the Soup

Clare Briggs February 17, 2022
Chairman of the House Committee
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Wednesday Writs: DNA, Databases, & Incriminating Sexual Assault Victims database

Wednesday Writs: DNA, Databases, & Incriminating Sexual Assault Victims

Em Carpenter February 16, 2022
The San Francisco Police Department crime lab had been using the database to "attempt to subsequently incriminate"...
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P.J. O’Rourke (1947-2022) P.J. O'Rourke

P.J. O’Rourke (1947-2022)

Michael Siegel February 16, 2022
Today, while the news circulated, I saw libertarians, conservatives and liberals all citing P.J. O'Rourke's work and...
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A Cinder in the Eye 2022-02-16 Friend f083 A Cinder in the Eye

A Cinder in the Eye

Clare Briggs February 16, 2022
When a feller needs a friend
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Durham Filing: Read It For Yourself Capture

Durham Filing: Read It For Yourself

Andrew Donaldson February 15, 2022
The long-running investigation filed a motion that set social media on fire. But what is actually in...
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Top 10 Films of 2021: A Funny, Sometimes Infuriating, Year At The Movies top 10 films of 2021

Top 10 Films of 2021: A Funny, Sometimes Infuriating, Year At The Movies

Garrett Stiger February 15, 2022
No matter how I came to these top 10 films of 2021, whether through the big or...
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