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Dick Cheney should be waterboarded. And I will explain why.
I used to be an executive at a company. As an executive, you make executive decisions. Many of these decisions are secret and confidential.
You could walk out of a meeting and you see...
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Cola lovers are divided into two- the Pepsi people and the Coke people. The same way, late night TV lovers are divided into two- the David Letterman people and the Jay Leno people.
I happened to be a Jay Leno guy.
In the last ten years, I must have...
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I visit Craigslist daily.
I have had cause to do business on craigslist. Not the personals type.
On Craigslist, like other online business transaction sites, you worry about fraud. You want to pick up purchases in a public place. You want to pay...
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Sex is an American.
That is the view from outside. Nothing the Americans do sexually will surprise anyone looking at America from outside.
Coming from a society where no TV station will air an episode of Friends because of the sexual content, I am...
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April is National Poetry Month. I went to my files and saw this piece I wrote at London Bridge on a cold Sunday morning in 1994. I was a recent immigrant trying to make sense of the British society I saw myself in. Happy Poetry month.
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In front of...
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There are more nut cases in Texas than in any other state in the United States.
Texas produced David Koresh of the Branch Davidian; Mark David Chapman, who murdered John Lennon; Belle Starr, a famous bandit queen; Charles ‘Tex’ Watson, a member...
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Yesterday, I attended a reading and a workshop by Anthony Swofford, the author of Jarhead, at my University, the Western Connecticut State University. Swofford was a Gulf War veteran who wrote the best selling book that also became a movie of the same...
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I went to the DMV yesterday.
I know. That is enough to elicit sympathy for me.
Yes. For those who do not know what the DMV means, it is an abbreviation for the Department of Motor Vehicles.
It is where you register your vehicle and take a driving...
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Some people are having great difficulty in finding a painful way to disrespect President Obama.
I will help them out.
Folks at the University of Notre Dame are challenged beyond belief. They invited Obama to come and give a commencement speech and...
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Pirates are glorified criminals.
The life of a pirate is packed with danger. But the myth about pirates only celebrates the loots.
There is nothing romantic about being a pirate. The sea may be their playground but it is also the burial ground of...
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