I believe that reading poetry is the mark of the truly civilized man. And I’m not talking about just reading the lines and going onto the next mundanity in life. I’m talking about getting inside the poem itself. With a really good poem it’s like standing inside a prism and looking at [...]

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First of all, read the Wikipedia article on the Unabomber–seriously, it’s interesting. Theodore Kaczynski was a brilliant man:
One of his professors at Michigan, George Piranian, said, “It is not enough to say he was smart.” He earned his Ph.D. by solving, in less than a year, a math problem that Piranian himself had been [...]

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I just heard it with my own ears…”A smoking gun to the world, showing that Weapons of Mass Destruction exist in Central Asia and will justify the build up of our military presence there. This will guarantee the flow of oil into our country for the next generation.”
I love it because it’s true. [...]

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I couldn’t agree more with JD on this post he wrote today. Remember the footage of the Nazishanging from the gallows after the Nuremberg trials? This is exactly what you have to do with people who murder human beings like animals.
You have to kill them right now because you are not an animal [...]

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I just read about Bob Woodruff, the ABC News reporter being severely injured and maybe even killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Iraq.
Our media is the biggest weapon we have in this terror war. The Western media is capable of shining a social spotlight on an individual with the luminosity and heat and [...]

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…is because it’s the most intense form of storytellling there is.
Look, even the worst fiction writers inherently understand that conflict is the essence of all reader interest in the story.
And the PostSecret postcards which are scanned into JPEG image files and posted to the PostSecret web page are CONFLICT nuclear bombs on a web [...]

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I’ve been reading about it on All Things Beautiful, but I haven’t been able to write about the Hamas victory in Palestine in the election of January, 2006 because of my immense disappointment in the absolute ignorance of the Third World mind. And yes, I’m speaking in generalities but its not as wide a [...]

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I persuaded my wife to watch the entire series of Firefly before watching the movie Serenity. the show only ran for 14 episodes before being cancelled under a cloud of supreme idiocy by the Fox television Network (the same one which brought you Ally McBeal and When Animals Attack).
This show had everything that the [...]

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Click here to watch this hilarious short clip.
I would have had to just stomp the reporter’s toe until it was a mashed and bloody mess.
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The once great show Friends has learned nothing from Seinfeld’s example of stepping out when it was on top because not only did it go two seasons too long, IT IS COMING BACK!
eminal sitcom Friends is returning to television after each of its six stars agreed multi-million dollar deals to star in four one-hour specials.

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