The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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STRAIGHT TO HELL

                                                         Gustave Doré The gates slam in your face Chill creeps down your spine No one will let you in Your guilty of the crimes The...
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AN OBSCENE LOOK AT OUR FINANCIAL MARKETS

         Recently overheard at the offices of the SEC: What in the hell are you doing Amesly? Uh, nothing...I mean not nothing...I mean I dropped some coffee on me private parts Govner and I was just polishing it...er...wiping it off....
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TOO MANY ANGRY MEN

12 5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.  6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and...
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NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON, Except For Good Old Joe Klein

                                                         THE AR15                                      You that never done nothin'                                      But build to destroy                                      You play with my world                                       Like it's your little toy                                      You put a gun in my hand                                      And you hide from my eyes                                      And you turn and...
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THE PLAY'S THE THING

                                                               THE OUTSIDE AGITATOR                     I am watching Righteous, a cop film starring Pacino and Deniro. If you get a chance check out Wiki on...
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LINCOLN & ALEXANDER

    A Man Reading The Presidential Proclamation by Henry Louis StephensYesterday was an important day in the history of America. Vanessa Dixon had to remind me of it as the date had faded from my senile cerebral machinery. It seems...
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CHAUCER: THE DEATH PANELS

             THE LADY SINGS THE BLUES! The feast was  proceeding along, swimmingly as the otters say. Lady Michele would be the last to speak at the feast. The Man of Steele noted to his companion the yeoman that the lady...
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GUNS & BLUSTER

                                               FRANKENSTEINThere are government sponsored death panels installed due to recent health care legislation. If you do not procure health insurance you are going to jail. Every American's bill for health insurance will go up $2,000 a year...
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A NONNES' TALE

             Is there no man, then, who, for prayer or hire, Will wake our comrade who's so far behind? A thief might easily rob him and bind. See how he's nodding, see, now by cock's bones, As if he'd fall...
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The Canterbury Tales: The Great Feast

                    Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour;...
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CANTERBURY TALES

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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!!!

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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