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SESSIONS IN SESSION

No not that Sessions you idiots; that's Jeff Sessions and he is in the Senate of the United States of Amerika doing all the same good things his namesake does in the House of Representatives. There, that is better....
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Peter Sellers and the Minky

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec . I am not that sophisticated in my comedic tastes. I will laugh at Larry, Moe & Curly. I mean I cannot watch more than three minutes of them at one time any more, but I have...
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CANON TEN OF THE BLOGOSPHERE: Send in the Clowns

                             The Clown and the tightrope walker I usually do not like rich, powerful or famous people. That is mostly because I am not rich, powerful or famous. The fame part does not bother me much because I would...
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THE CHRISTMAS BLOGS: The Vision Quest

File links               Sir Galahad as conceived by George Frederick Watts. Now saith this story whanne Galahad had rescowed Percyual from the twenty knyghtes / he yede tho in to a waste foreste / wherin he rode many Iourneyes /...
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THE CHRISTMAS BLOGS: O CHRISTMAS THREE

Chiaroscuro woodcut of the Virgin and Child by Bartolommeo Coriolano, created between 1630 and 1655. Digitally restored.I was going to discuss the concept of the transcendental experience in the context of Jesus Christ from the standpoint of an amateur. ...
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The Christmas Blogs; Chapter Two

                                             St. Francis at Greccio by GiottoMatthew begins his treatise with a family tree, demonstrating that Jesus is somehow related to David and then gives his rendition of the Nativity:And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom...
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THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT BLOGS: A Short Series

The 2005 Blue Room Christmas tree The first, the earliest discussion of The Beginning is an old and ancient song found in a tome known as the Old Testament.   1 In the beginning God created the heaven and...
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FANTASY TIGER

Tiger Woods is learning that, in the immortal words of Neil Sedaka, breaking up is hard to do. The New York Post reports that a lonely Tiger has isolated himself from friends. Not even buddy and former NBA star...
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THE NINTH CANON: How to Handle Trolls

                                  Close Up of Trolls (John Bauer, 1915)We should be grateful for what we have. Coveting is strictly prohibited in Exodus and Deuteronomy. You should not covet thy neighbor's goods or his wife.  I do not know whether or...
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BUCHANAN IS A SCHMUCK: A Reexamination

Hitler-Jugend (This blog was around ten rec's with no comments because there was a kind of shut-down yesterday. So I re-edited a bit and republish it now)I have had it.   I just finished republishing, refurbishing and rewriting eight...

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