The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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NORTHCO

Hey Frank, you want another beer.In a bit Sean.It's Friday Frank. Hell you are Friday Frank.Yeah yeah...All right. The others are not even here yet.  So what is the matter? Just you and me. I...I... Ah come on. Ale...
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A REBIRTH

Bobby Darin   Gideon's Trumpet is a wonderful flick with Henry Fonda, Based upon a true story. From his prison cell at Florida State Prison, making use of the prison library and writing in pencil on prison stationery, Gideon...
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CULPABILITY

Little Caesar original poster (1930) What if an attorney wrote a letter/memo to a client explaining how she did not have to withhold taxes on her employee's wages.  What if a lawyer wrote a memo telling the President of...
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A Clio Award for Bush

Clio Award Clio Awards Okie dokie then....Our President receives a Nobel Peace Prize without any lobbying effort on his part and even appears a little embarrassed in his short speech acknowledging that he will accept it.  Only 9 months in...
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THE FOUR FINGER SALUTE

Miguel Cabrera DOkay. It is the bottom of the third inning. The game is tied at one run each. The lead batter hits a line drive to the third basemen. The third baseman, attempting to look cool for the...
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EYES OF THE BEHOLDER

David King of all Israel King David by Pedro Berruguete I was reading my friend Icky's blog today, and thought I would follow up on the new biblical reclamation project.  http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/ickyma/2009/10/creationi...   I reread the little article in HuffPo: Lo...
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THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE

THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE Beaver Fossil range: Late Miocene - Recent American Beaver (Castor canadensis) There is a wonderful movie with Robert Young of all people. Young and Dorothy McGuire are misshapen and scarred people who somehow find love in...
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YOU'VE NOT SEEN NOTHIN LIKE THE MIGHTY QUINN

"Mighty Quinn" Q IS BACK   Quinn the Eskimo comes back with his own blog; his first in four months or so.  http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/quinn_esq/And the best part of course is that no one, I MEAN NO ONE is ever going to...
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MANY ARE COLD BUT FEW ARE FROZEN

I was not going to blog today. But I came across articles that knocked my socks off. I thought cryogenics was the field of science dedicated to freezing humans just prior to death so that somehow the specimen could someday...
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THE APOLOGY

Ancient philosophy As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.SOCRATES (Please note in my defense, that no Athenians were hurt during the creation of the post, but if your eyes and ears are sensitive today, please...
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THIS LAND WAS MADE FOR ME AND MINE

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.   "The fact of the matter is, he encouraged me to give him my view on a whole range of issues. I did," Cheney said in an interview broadcast on "Fox News Sunday." In the end,...
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THUS SPAKE GERRY THUSTRA II

Zaraθuštra Spitāma O man, take care! What does the deep midnight declare? "I was asleep-- From a deep dream I woke and swear:-- The world is deep, Deeper than day had been aware. Deep is its woe-- Joy--deeper yet than...
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A Contest For Favorite Words & Phrases

I was speaking with some friends the other day and they thought a little words and phrases game might be fun. And, as everyone here knows, I am a lotta fun until I hit my seventh beer.   My...
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THUS SPAKE GERRY THUSTRA!!!

Donatello The Thustras were your normal inner burb people. That mysterious group of post war America whose biggest aim in life was to own their own home far away from the city (well six or seven miles was pretty far)...
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A CONTRAST AMONG DOOLITTLES

                       Alfie DoolittleJohn Doolittle Once upon a time there was there was a Mormon attorney who wished to make a difference, strive for change and make America a better place for rich white people to live and thrive. In...
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WATER ON THE MOON

I do not know exactly why, but this little bit of info from BBC News and The Daily Beast really got to me: A fine film of water coats the particles that make up dirt on the Moon, and...
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A PERFECT 60

Babe Ruth George Herman (The Babe) Ruth, what a guy. The Sultan of Swat; in my mind the greatest baseball player who ever lived. Why?Well, first the only performance enhancing drugs he ever used were beer, whiskey, cigars and...
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STEPHEN KING: The Two Spinsters

                                                                                                                                       King Stephen                                                                                                                                                                                         Susan Collins...
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TEN CONSIDERATIONS FOR YOUR RETIREMENT

I came across a real gem in the web-o-sphere concerning retirement. The Ten Biggest Retirement Mistakes.I found it at a site called Wallet Pop.  It has made a permanent impression on me and I have completely changed my ideas...

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