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The Making of a “Classic” wordbasket.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-... My student got a discussion rolling over what works were considered “classics” in high school English classes.

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Sorry, Dad, I Can’t Do Politics Anymore wordbasket.blogspot.com/2025/03/sorr... This week’s unfolding events demonstrate why I could never hold elective office.

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Nobody checked who was on the group chat before blasting out national security details. We would find that lack of diligence unacceptable in a coworker planning a surprise birthday party. We certainly wouldn't trust them to plan the next party.

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Radium, Capitalism, and America wordbasket.blogspot.com/2024/03/radi... Radium paint appeared in wristwatches, dashboard instrument dials, and other technical processes. The women who hand-painted those dials were paid well.

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“Honor Thy Father and Mother” Means YOU wordbasket.blogspot.com/2020/03/hono... Any society without elders is a society without a past, without long-term philosophy, without depth of understanding.

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Call me old fashioned, but blasting out national security info to glossy magazines seems way worse than her emails.

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I read a book recently where a man was called a "giant" and employed as a circus freak because he stood 6'4" and weighed 230 pounds. I stand 6'4" and weigh 224. I look forward to my spandex suit and job offer any day now.

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The Stains of Politics Don’t Wash Off wordbasket.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... Before the Sixties, party loyalty had more to do with community and geography than issues and platforms.

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And the Truth Shall Set You wordbasket.blogspot.com/2022/03/and-... Brown’s memoir of interactions with White people and Whiteness includes events that are sometimes frightening, but most often heart-wrenching.

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Why Ostara? wordbasket.blogspot.com/2025/03/why-... Multiple factors contribute to why Christianity, and its myths and practices, are fading in Western Civilization.

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"Grant Park"

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It looks like my Facebook account has been shut down, no explanation given. I'm still in my other Zuck-owned platforms, but who knows how long that will last. Probably because I made a flippant comment about the pervasive effects of social media.

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My Lament For Fred Phelps wordbasket.blogspot.com/2014/03/my-l... Westboro Baptist Church existed for over thirty-five years before Phelps’ loathsome “God Hates Fags” campaign commenced.

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Happy First Day of Spring to those who celebrate.

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A friend posted an Easter "origin story" that began with "The story goes that the fertility goddess Ostara..." We know literally nothing about Ostara except her name. Nothing. No mythology has come down to us. I support reclaiming authentic history. But don't just make stuff up.

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Dear fellow motorists: I appreciate careful driving; heaven knows I've angered enough tailgaters with my own cautious driving. But if you're so afraid of a slight sheen of snowmelt that you're reduced to going 40 in a 65 zone, maybe just don't drive today. Sincerely, A Commuter on a Deadline

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One Day In an IKEA Showroom wordbasket.blogspot.com/2017/03/one-... The IKEA showroom isn’t, fundamentally, a store. Within the first few displays, it becomes clear you’ve entered a museum.

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You can take your colonic irrigation and SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!

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Chatterbox Jazz and the Victim Complex, Part Two wordbasket.blogspot.com/2025/03/chat... When all news is media manipulation, in other words, then all injustice, no matter how severe, no matter how authentic, becomes equally small.

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Chatterbox Jazz and the White Victim Complex wordbasket.blogspot.com/2025/03/chat... American conservatives, especially the MAGA variety, love trying to enter themselves in the oppression Olympics.

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Our Lady Mary Magdalene of Ireland wordbasket.blogspot.com/2019/03/our-... The Magdalene laundries started out as places prostitutes and other “fallen women” could rebuild their lives.

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Hell yeah, I'm a little bit Irish on St. Patrick's day! I'm drinking whisky, watching it rain, and complaining about the imperial powers that continue fecking up my country and my world!

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We've Gone On Holiday By Mistake wordbasket.blogspot.com/2016/03/weve... Richard E. Grant plays “Withnail,” a self-destructive tornado of malice who schedules his entire life around ways to maintain his alcohol flow.

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I admire people who are dedicated enough to wake up the first time their alarm goes off.

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Law & Justice in the Other New York wordbasket.blogspot.com/2023/03/law-... Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky built their career around following people that the media world gawks at without bothering to understand.

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Not to be all judgmental, but shouldn't Stacey's dad pull his head out of the sand and pay attention to what's happening in his own house?

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How To Invent a Fake Pop Culture wordbasket.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-... Much of the “San Francisco Sound” of 1966 to 1973 consisted of riffs and jams on the “Sally” motif.

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The Truth About America’s Rural Poor wordbasket.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-... Poverty, Smarsh asserts, doesn’t just inexplicably happen; it comes from powerful people making deliberate choices.

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Everyone Loves a Dragon Queen wordbasket.blogspot.com/2024/03/ever... Younger viewers, unburdened by prior experience, will probably enjoy this movie, simply for MBB’s character.

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Doobie Newbie Blues wordbasket.blogspot.com/2015/03/doob... The distinction between which drugs are prohibited, and which remain lawful, has mainly moral rather than medical foundations.

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Piers Morgan, and Why Nothing Ever Gets Better wordbasket.blogspot.com/2021/03/pier... Morgan, a master of coded language, has frequently used his highly-rated breakfast news program to pooh-pooh Meghan Markle.

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The fact that you can't go to most bookstores anymore and buy a thesaurus off the shelf makes me very... um... sad.

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Nebraska: might go broke Blue-state Dems: "Tough luck, your own fault for voting for Trump" The 40% of Nebraskans who didn't vote for Trump: "Thanks for letting us know we can't trust you when the chips are down"

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Jesus: "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in..." (Matt. 25:35) TV Preachers: "He didn't mean us"

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The Great Exploding Rocket Debacle Continues wordbasket.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-... SpaceX has proven what 1980s SF writers said, that a successful privatized space program requires avaricious ego and casual disregard for consequences.

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Jesus and the Talmudic Tradition wordbasket.blogspot.com/2022/03/jesu... Despite being Orthodox Jewish herself, Dr. Amy-Jill Levine has spent her career mostly at Christian seminaries.

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Time For the 28th Amendment wordbasket.blogspot.com/2025/03/time... How old were you when you discovered that the right to vote isn’t protected in the United States Constitution?

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"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." —Booker T. Washington

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A New Classic Philosophy of Philosophy wordbasket.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-ne... Why do we consider certain ideas obvious and true, rather than their opposite? Why do we do our jobs specific ways? Why do we spend our time on such-and-such?

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"The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase." —William F. Buckley, Jr., 1962

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If your britches have holes in the knees, people assume you did it on purpose and they call you fashionable. If your shirt has holes in the elbows, people assume you're destitute and ask if you need help with groceries. Interesting.

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Sean Connery On Age and Dignity wordbasket.blogspot.com/2020/03/sean... Though only in his forties, he retired from playing James Bond, allowed himself to go bald onscreen, and took roles playing men facing the reality of age.

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I just recently discovered that Whataburger is a real chain, and not an SNL satire of the very concept of fast food. In case anyone wonders what I mean when I say "I can't even tell whether you're kidding."

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Get in, loser, we're going to hitch our 8-bit Conestoga to an ox and head west before we die. www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

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Boston Murder Supernova wordbasket.blogspot.com/2017/03/pete... By replaying single events through multiple frames, author Peter Swanson demonstrates the difficulty of truly understanding anything.

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Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. —Ezekiel 16:49

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Economics, Moral Rot, and You wordbasket.blogspot.com/2023/03/econ... This disaster’s photogenic nature, with its biblical pillar of cloud looming over a chronically neglected town, creates inherent contradictions in Ohio.

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