The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Adventures in Urban Gardening

    By trkingmomoe on Sat, 10/05/2013 - 11:47pm |

    Last winter I planted my first urban garden.  I did what you call square foot gardening which you plant very compact in a small space.

     

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    From left to right. California wonders green peppers. okra, and Kentucky wonder pole beens. 

    A Capella Science - Bohemian Gravity

    By EmmaZahn on Sun, 09/22/2013 - 8:06pm |

    Because sometimes you just gotta share:

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    Why wasn't education like this when I was in school?

    via Kevin Drum

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    A Perfect Day For Google Glass

    By Michael Maiello on Tue, 08/27/2013 - 12:27pm |

    A Perfect Day For Google Glass

    By Michael Maiello

    She walked for about a quarter of a mile and then suddenly broke into an oblique run up the soft part of the beach.  She stopped short where she reached the place where a young man was lying on his back, staring at the sky, his eyelids fluttering beneath the clear lenses affixed to the thin, graphite colored wire frame of his Google Glass.

    “Are you going in the water see more glass?” she said.

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    A Quiet Friday Afternoon at the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Fri, 08/02/2013 - 12:46pm |
     
     
     
    Here's this week's heap of haikus:
     
     
     
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    A Late Sunday's Return to the Haikulodeon

    By MrSmith1 on Sun, 06/30/2013 - 2:32pm |

     

    Due to another kidney stone surgery,  my usual Friday afternoon posting had to be canceled.  Here is a re-posting of one of my previous week's efforts:

     

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    SUFFER UNTO ME THE LITTLE CHILDREN

    By Richard Day on Wed, 06/26/2013 - 1:25am |

    Suffer unto me the little children. (mathew/19-14.htm)

    If you can't do it;

    Caddy

    (me)

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