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The Death of Steve Howe
Though I never met him, the death of former major league pitcher Steve Howe last week hit me hard and low.
Read More »American-Canadian Relations: The Carrot And The Stick
If you don't give the donkey the stick soon after the carrot, he might start thinking for himself.
Read More »Chronic Pain: The Illness That Doesn’t Exist
Chronic pain remains an illness that doesn't exist in the minds of far too large a segment of society.
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 54 (Women Bloggers)
Where are all the women bloggers? Well quite a few of them are here, in my weekly "top ten" listing.
Read More »Labyrinths: A Symbol To Share
It's far easier to think you know your enemy than to try and know yourself.
Read More »Shoes, Paper Clips, and Other Ways of Remembering the Holocaust
I worried children wouldn’t understand the significance of the Holocaust. The exhibit of 3,000 tiles by American schoolchildren at the Holocaust Museum quashed that concern.
Read More »Illogical Logic
Logic has become the latest casualty in our world of political expediency. What will be next?
Read More »New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival Opens with 9/11 Film
Starting off the Tribeca Film Festival with United 93 was the right thing to do and now is the right time to do it.
Read More »Oops, She Did It Again? Britney and K-Fed Expecting
This poptart just can’t stay out of the news. If babies aren’t dropping at the Spears Malibu estate, they are popping out, it seems. Spears, last spotted in Las Vegas — reportedly accompanying husband Kevin Federline to his “listening party” — was seen “sporting a red bikini” with passers-by declaring …
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