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CANTERBURY TALES

By Richard Day on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 9:46pm |
e             Portrait of Chaucer from the 17th centuryLo, such it is when watch and ward do cease, And one grows negligent with flattery. But you that hold this tale a foolery, As but about a fox, a cock, a...
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YAKITY YAK, BRING NUKES BACK

By Richard Day on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 8:59pm |
gePresident Barack Obama:  Today, the Cold War has disappeared but thousands of those weapons have not. In a strange turn of history, the threat of global nuclear war has gone down, but the risk of a nuclear attack has...
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A REENACTMENT OF THE CIVIL WAR

By Richard Day on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 6:21pm |
ks How much do we have to pay to get out of doing all these things twice? B.Dylan Since his inauguration in January, the Republican Gov. of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, has been busy transforming the Southern commonwealth into a...
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Eli Eli lama sabachthani?

By Richard Day on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 5:06pm |
s Job 19   1: Then Job answered and said, 2: How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3: These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make...
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THE GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING

By Richard Day on Tue, 04/06/2010 - 8:39pm |
ks                                           Girl with a Pearl Earring The Dutch Masters, such as Johannes Vermeer, who were hired as painters in the 17th century, were known for their magnificent attention to detail. It has been widely speculated that they made use...
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CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME

By Richard Day on Mon, 04/05/2010 - 7:43pm |
ks                     Charity by William-Adolphe Bouguereau I have discussed some problems relating to Freedom Alliance, a right wing 'charitable organization' fronted by Fox News and its employees . Freedom Alliance was founded in 1990 by Oliver North, who now serves...
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A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND THREATS

By Richard Day on Sun, 04/04/2010 - 12:38am |
ks I was meandering through the 'web' today. I was trying to get a grasp on what was going on five years ago.  Five years ago we were in the depths of despair. W Bush had been reelected even though...
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THE MISTS OF AVLON

By Richard Day on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 10:27pm |
nks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k34COolbdmY I am a left winger. Some no doubt think in the context of our Café that I am not hard enough on My President. When I am angry, some have noted I went far and beyond the edges...
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APRIL FOOLS

By Richard Day on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 12:34am |
a                                     Claudia by Sophie AndersonIn Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1392), the "Nun's Priest's Tale" is set Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two.[2] Chaucer probably meant 32 days after March, i.e. May 2,[3] the anniversary of the engagement of King...
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GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY!!!

By Richard Day on Wed, 03/31/2010 - 10:42pm |
s With 24 hour news available on cable and at web sites, I rarely hit upon some story that shocks me; for any lengthy period of time anyway. I mean some event happens and I have the opportunity to read...

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