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We sat side by side in the morning light & looked out at the future together.
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God Says Yes to Me
I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic
and she said, "Yes."
I asked her if it was okay to be short
and she said, "It sure is."
I asked her if I could wear nail polish
or not wear nail polish.
And she said, "Honey,"
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“Daylight saving time was popular during World War I,” people say. “And we brought it back during World War II ( Read more... ) -
The Money Masters
Any 'broad sweep of history' thing, that blames all economic crises on 'fractional reserve banking' is, fundamentally, crackpot ( Read more... ) -
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I don’t have a 9/11 story. It barely happened to me. I mean, it very much happened to me, it happened to my city, I lived here at the time and it broke my heart. But I didn’t work down there, I didn’t know anyone that did, and were I to spin any kind of dramatic retelling, it would be inauthentic as it’s just not my story to tell. I wasn’t even on ( Read more... ) -
Effulgent Tomatoes, Laconic Recipe
The thing I love most about tomatoes other than their effulgent, puerile nature is their beneficience. They take pity on the fact that by the time their cute, little bodies reach their most adorable, juicy and delectable stage, it is already the end of summer, when the air is getting chilly and the leaves have already started to fall. When we have ( Read more... ) -
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If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back.
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John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 - October 24, 2011)
Mr. McCarthy, who died Monday at age 84, brought a mathematician's rigor to computing. "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense," he wrote in a 1995 paper ( Read more... ) -
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I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia. I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture ( Read more... )