Tag: culture
group name: noncorformists
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December 19, 2005 03:22 PM EST --
I was cold as hell, frozen in place with a racing heart,
keenly indifferent, and aching to be well.
I was a losing winner.
Or maybe a winning loser.
A monstrous little building ambushed . . .
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March 20, 2006 01:54 PM EST --
After my quick click to accept the invitation to join the nonconformist group, I questioned my qualifications. Would the television remote, . . .
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August 09, 2006 10:06 PM EDT --
Clearly the war on drugs is not working. Did we not learn anything from prohibition? Cigarettes and alcohol are legal, why not pot? It would allow us to focus on securing the boders from . . .
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February 27, 2006 06:23 PM EST --
Here are my suggestions on unconventional ways to stay healthy. I'm also looking for your suggestions.
1) Eat dirt and drink from streams. Living in a sterile world is making us sitting . . .
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March 26, 2006 04:15 AM EST --
I doubt anyone escapes falling in love. At some point, each of us sees another being who evokes passion, generates excitement, encourages a dream of what the pair might become that the individual could . . .
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September 17, 2006 12:12 PM EDT --
This is not so much a crafted piece as a rant. Once again, I've allowed myself to be hooked into conversations about homosexuality and the alleged "sinfulness" of said state of being. I feel . . .
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January 17, 2007 11:31 PM EST --
I used to think there were special people. People who knew what was going on in the world, even the universe. I guess it was only natural to think that someone must understand what is happening, . . .
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July 31, 2006 05:24 PM EDT --
I think churches should pay taxes just like everyone else. Do they not use services such as roads, water sewer and electricity? I know some churches that build extravagant gymnasiums, . . .
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March 27, 2006 06:33 PM EST --
When we get home from work and finish dinner, I admit we plunk down in front of the TV. We watch two soaps we tape during the day (hey, it beats what's offered on prime time these days . . .
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September 11, 2006 09:57 PM EDT --
I have figured out how we can keep "under God" in the Pledge. We can do this two ways. The first is just list all Gods of Americans in the pledge. This could be quite . . .
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September 18, 2006 04:50 AM EDT --
It would seem that many folks consider single line conversation starters to be "articles". I suppose their right in a way, like a sock is an article of clothing. And there's nothing . . .
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February 25, 2007 04:52 PM EST --
In one of my latest runs to the new Asian Market on University Avenue I brought back a few interesting things. I took pictures and tried them out. Here's what I think:
I guess everyone . . .
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March 28, 2006 05:25 PM EST --
I live in this body and know it well. I know how far I can push it, when it needs a tune-up, and when I need to park it for a few days. . . .
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July 26, 2006 01:34 PM EDT --
Many people have all kinds of crazy mixed up notions about thinking. To hear them tell it, it's a tricky business, requiring careful attention to details and laborious comparing and evaluating. . . .
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September 30, 2006 08:30 AM EDT --
There is this "group" see, and they are pretty smart folks. But they are doing something dumb. If I try to tell them this, they will want to hurt me (with words of course). And they are . . .
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October 10, 2006 07:51 PM EDT --
It's quite easy to be a jerk. And it's pretty easy for a jerk to think they aren't. These two things kinda go hand in hand, a match made in hell, you might say. There's a little rhythm . . .
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October 13, 2006 06:22 PM EDT --
The low floodlights come up first, gels of blue, deep red, purple and some muted yellows. Hakim, with his own mini floodlight in the left-hand bass drum takes up the beat, both feet beating out . . .
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September 12, 2006 03:42 PM EDT --
The American people need to know this. WW III will start soon, the question is when. At this point, I wonder if there is anything we CAN do. Radical Islam is going to cause the End to come either . . .
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September 23, 2006 03:49 PM EDT --
William J. Mann (who has recently written a biography on Hepburn) narrows Katherine Hepburn's career (and the continued resurrection there of) into three segments: 1) Getting Rid of the Tomboy . . .
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June 23, 2006 01:49 PM EDT --
In 1975, R&B/country-rock band Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show released Bankrupt, their 4th album containing songs written by Shel Silverstein. Like the previous three, it had a number of songs you . . .
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