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Dumping Money in a Hole and Shitting on It

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in May 30th, 2006  
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If you ever needed any proof that the government, all of its branches, were a bunch of lunkheaded wastoids with the sense of three-toed tree sloths, look no further than the recent “effort” to unearth the late (and should have been long forgotten) Jimmy Hoffa. The search involved “more than 40 FBI personnel, along [...]

A Eulogy for Honor: To the Veterans of the Second World War

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in May 29th, 2006  
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Posted in: History, Personal     

This has been reprinted on Memorial Day in honor of all veterans and patriots who have served their country’s best interests. I originally published this in 2002 and it was picked up by a group of WWII vets who read it at their annual meeting in Las Vegas.

We are losing you. You, who boarded [...]

“Stanley Kunitz is Dead: Long Live Stanley Kunitz” Boys Wear Pants on the Death of a Poet

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in May 26th, 2006  
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Posted in: Film, Television, Music and Books     

Most of you have probably never heard of Stanley Kunitz, although you should have. He lived the life of a demure poet although his poetry was everything but demure. Stanely just died on May 14th, 2006; he was 100 years old. He was not a hard-drinking poor me type of poet who [...]

The Rabbit Still Runs: Boys Wear Pants on John Updike’s Upcoming Suicide Bomb of a Novel

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in May 25th, 2006  
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A detonated suicide bomb is both a sucess and a failure in the same act. It’s a success in the sense that it is a completed act of such horror that it cannot be ignored by those directly affected by it and it’s a failure in the sense that any human being would feel [...]

Boys Wear Pants on the Honest Blogger Quiz

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in May 24th, 2006  
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Which political party do you typically agree with?
Libertarian
Which political party do you typically vote for?
Republican
List the last six presidents that you voted for?
George W. Bush (2004) and George W. Bush (2000). I abstained from voting in the 1996 election and was too young to vote in the 1992 election.
Which party do you think [...]

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