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If it isn’t one thing, it’s another. golfing

If it isn’t one thing, it’s another.

Clare Briggs April 26, 2025
First you don't know what you don't know. Then you know what you don't know.
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Saturday Morning Gaming: Blue Prince blueprincemenu

Saturday Morning Gaming: Blue Prince

Jaybird April 26, 2025
Blue Prince is *REALLY* good. Seriously. If your tastes overlap with mine at all, this game is...
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The First Barefoot of the Season 2025-04-25 TDoRS C5118 (04.29.17)

The First Barefoot of the Season

Clare Briggs April 25, 2025
The Days of Real Sport
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POETS Day! Anne Bradstreet Bradstreet Window

POETS Day! Anne Bradstreet

Ben Sears April 25, 2025
Bradstreet shifted to lyrical poetry where once she wrote long form in Du Bartas imitation.
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Series! Recap of World Series of the 1900s 1903_World_Series_-_Boston_Americans

Series! Recap of World Series of the 1900s

Mike Schilling April 25, 2025
The beginning (first modern World Series) and thus the end (as far back as we can go).
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There are Times when Murder Seems Justifiable golf

There are Times when Murder Seems Justifiable

Clare Briggs April 24, 2025
Well, *THAT* escalated quickly.
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Weekend Plans Post: Caffeine Rituals

Jaybird April 24, 2025
Work recently put in new rules and new machines.
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Less Than a Decade Prior to the MPAA ratedr

Less Than a Decade Prior to the MPAA

Clare Briggs April 23, 2025
Most Thanhouser Films were for General Audiences. This one, apparently, wasn't.
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Movie of a Fan Playing the Game catcher

Movie of a Fan Playing the Game

Clare Briggs April 22, 2025
We want a pitcher, not a belly itcher.
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Back When Patriots Opposed Kings Patriots Opposed Kings

Back When Patriots Opposed Kings

David Thornton April 22, 2025
Many revolutions have become dictatorships when leaders come to like the taste of power and find its...
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Somebody is Always Taking the Joy out of Life somebodyalways

Somebody is Always Taking the Joy out of Life

Clare Briggs April 21, 2025
"You know that that's not *REALLY* Hamlet. It's a guy in a frock."
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Pope Francis Dead at 88 Pope Francis Dead

Pope Francis Dead at 88

OT Editors April 21, 2025
Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, a day after public appearances celebrating Easter and...
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Danny Dreamer Dreams of Treasure treasure

Danny Dreamer Dreams of Treasure

Clare Briggs April 20, 2025
Mister Jones is a shockingly good sport.
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Saturday Morning Gaming: Are you ready for Wrestlemania? wm41

Saturday Morning Gaming: Are you ready for Wrestlemania?

Jaybird April 19, 2025
For the record: I am not ready for Wrestlemania. It'll be a good one. Not a *GREAT*...
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Good Use of an Old Barn 2025-04-18 TDoRS C5111 (04.22.17)

Good Use of an Old Barn

Clare Briggs April 18, 2025
The Circus is Coming to Town!
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Canadian Leaders Debate Amongst Themselves Canadian Leaders Debate

Canadian Leaders Debate Amongst Themselves

Andrew Donaldson April 18, 2025
Some thoughts on the Canadian Leaders' Debate, the looming federal election there, the Donald Trump effect, and...
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4th Circuit Court on Abrego Garcia: Read It For Yourself 4th Circuit Court on Abrego Garcia

4th Circuit Court on Abrego Garcia: Read It For Yourself

OT Editors April 18, 2025
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson in an opinion for a panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals...
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Throughput: Telling Women They’re Womening Wrong, But In Space

Michael Siegel April 18, 2025
What should have been an "oh, that's cool" space flight devolved into the internet's favorite hobby: telling...
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Crazy Aunt France France

Crazy Aunt France

Issac Faulk April 18, 2025
For the second time in a decade, France is positioning itself as the European broker between the...
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Easter with Family and Getting the Lamb Right Rosemary

Easter with Family and Getting the Lamb Right

Ben Sears April 18, 2025
We’ll never recreate hers, but this lamb tasted enough like Mom’s without being so close as to...
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