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Umpire O’Loughlin says Players are Slow, Especially the Pitchers jack

Umpire O’Loughlin says Players are Slow, Especially the Pitchers

Clare Briggs May 1, 2025
Umpire O'Loughlin had the nickname "Silk"
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Weekend Plans Post: Found a New Dinner to Add to the Rotation

Jaybird May 1, 2025
It wasn't a depressing bachelor meal like I thought it would be, but something you'd think you...
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He’s So Adaptable With Children

Clare Briggs April 30, 2025
When a Feller Needs a Cousin
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Cats Are The Best: An Annotated List

SarahStook April 30, 2025
If you have a cat and you put a picture of it online, it’ll likely get more...
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Captain Chance’s Polar Expedition

Clare Briggs April 29, 2025
The map is not the territory.
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Somebody is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life

Clare Briggs April 28, 2025
Get a cigar on the way home.
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The Deportation Cases, in Verse Form The Deportation Cases

The Deportation Cases, in Verse Form

Michael Siegel April 28, 2025
Adapting one of the most insightful pieces ever written to wade through a truly confusing situation: Dr....
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Gender Critical: Legally Defining Sex Gender critical

Gender Critical: Legally Defining Sex

David TC April 28, 2025
The actual way this definition is going to be used is the way all groupings are used...
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Pop Culture Quarterly Report: Quarter One 2025

Russell Michaels April 27, 2025
In the first three months of 2025, I saw forty-two movies in theaters. Only one of which...
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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

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

Clare Briggs April 25, 2025
The Days of Real Sport
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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

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

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

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

Clare Briggs April 22, 2025
We want a pitcher, not a belly itcher.
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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

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