My mother sent me this e-mail and I thought it was historically telling. I haven’t checked the history of all this but it sounds legit to me. I invite anyone to fact check in the comments if something is incorrect.
US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. [...]

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…by leaving my home to go to college. It was my second freshman year, having left the University of Cincinnati a year earlier in a maelstrom quarter life crisis which ended with me breaking ties with my fraternity brothers, dropping out of school and undergoing a spiritual conversion on the level of tectonic plate [...]

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…then we don’t have much at all.
But since when does our country hinge on maybe?
The Democratic Party is no longer the party of Andrew Jackson and segregation. They no longer dress up in white sheets (except maybe Robert Byrd) and turn fire hoses and German Shepherds on black school kids trying to get [...]

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I spend so much time tearing down religious and social institutions on this blog that I rarely turn my hydra-headed attention span to the world of science so excuse me while I fix my sniper scope here. Ok, got it. In the crosshairs today are the astronomers and cosmologists who are searching relentlessly [...]

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The only time I consider the comfort of the homeless is when I let my dog outside for the last time at night, before going to bed. I open the sliding glass door to my home, feel the temperature as I’m grabbing for the chain and imagine how the cool or the heat feels [...]

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I missed the first four shows when this was on television so I deliberately held out until it came out on DVD. I’m glad I did because it sucks waiting for a week for these serial cliff hanger shows like this and 24.
This is one holy mother humper of a great show. The [...]

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Have you ever been verbally accosted by an aggressive Republican? Democrats accost too but not as viciously as Republicans. Well, I used to be one of those nasty shameless Republican voters who confronted everyone I knew about their political views.
I am no longer that person. Now I set traps for them, gut [...]

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One of my favorite things in life is rediscovering a great book. When I sink my teeth into new ideas that are actually reinforced ideas I was introduced to years before, my mind whirs in a way that it doesn’t under any other stimuli. Take, for example, the magnificent chapter in Carl Sagan’s [...]

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I remember the Native American Women Studies class I took my senior year of college, taught by Linda Pertusati at Bowling Green State University who was actually present at the Wounded Knee incident in February, 1972 when the FBI busted in and shot up two AIM protesters, one of them a Vietnam veteran. Linda [...]

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…it would be Robert Downey Jr. You’ve gotta love this guy because he’s like a raquetball–the harder you toss him down, the higher he bounces back up.
He was born in New York and his father was a film director. He joined the cast of Saturday Night Live at the age of 20 but [...]

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