The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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Arthur of the Roundish Table: Chivalry Part Deiux

  Back at Camelot, the School for Squires had reconvened, the little monsters who would take the reins from the best of all knighthood were throwing things at each other and saying the most nasty things...WHAT IS ALL THIS...
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Ethics of the Netwebblogosphere: TROLLING IN SHALLOW WATERS

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 not you can covet someone else's husband.  I...
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w's Biography: Decisions, Decisions

                                                 WHAT, ME WORRYA well-placed source in the publishing industry says George W. Bush's book deal is valued at about $7 million. The former president has already written 30,000 words of the book, to be published by Crown and...
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CANONS OF ETHICS ON THE WEB: THE CASE OF THE AD HOMINEM ATTACK

When I was a kid in the fifties there were certain truths, truths that could never be questioned. The Pope was God's representative on Earth and he should never be questioned even if he spent a lot of time wearing...
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Arthur of the Roundish Table: Chivalry and Master Rumpole

Back at Camelot we move into the Squire's School, run by Master Rumpole...All right, so which of you are sure that you shall become knights upon reaching that magic age of 13.  Come, come, SPEAK UP.  Richie, tell me, are...
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Canons of Ethics in the Netwebblogosphere: IS THIS THE PARTY TO WHOM I AM WRITING

The rules of the netwebblogosphere are important to us all. What we are looking for is clarity. The purpose of course, is to communicate with another human being (most of the time) in a manner that will make it possible...
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Arthur of the Roundish Table: The Secret of the Moat

Back at Camelot the King had just announced that there was "Peace in our Time" per the fine work of the Marquis de Sot and had awarded the greatest warrior in the battle against the Angles, Sir Dobbs a Medal...
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SUPERACCOUNTANT: The Monstrous Math

This is the age of the comic book super hero. Superman, Batman, Aquaman, The Xmen, ...

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The Netwebblogosphere: THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING

I thought we might take some time to discuss exactly what a blog is. If we do not have an adequate understanding of what a main post is, we cannot discuss what a comment is. And if we cannot discuss...
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Universal Canon of Ethical Blogging: THE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM

Craig Crawford revisited our little group again yesterday and gave us more positive reinforcement for continuing our look at the universal rules of the newtwebblogosphere. And ever since I got those depends I was prepared for such a visit. Now...
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Universal Canon of Ethical Blogging Five: THE TIME/SPACE CONTINUUM

As we travel through the universe called the netwebblogoshphere, we come upon many strange and wondrous new worlds filled with both familiar and alien peoples. In just a short period of time I have learned that there is life on...
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Arthur of the Roundish Table: Lancelot Meets Marlowe

Camelot had a lot going on inside those walls....Almost everyone was in the Room of the Roundish Table. There was a special presentation to be made. And a special announcement.We are finally at peace in our southeastern quarters. We sent...
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Craig Crawford: How to Properly Prepare a Comment-Tres

  As we move through this saga on morality and modality and modesty and mediocrity and mood and monstrousness...  I think I ran out of m's, we will move on to n's later. At any rate, our third canon in...
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Craig Crawford and How to Properly Post a Comment-Deiux

I promised to continue this blog hours ago. But a funny thing happened on the way to chapter two of this saga.  We have a nice small group here. I have mentioned it many times. We talk about war criminals...
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The Superaccountant: The Monstrous Math

This is the age of the comic book super hero. Superman, Batman, Aquaman, The Xmen, ...Billions of dollars made off of these figments of someone else's imagination. I propose something more apropos for our time, our economic mess, our depression....
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Craig Crawford: How to Properly Prepare Your Comments for Publication

MESSAGE OR A MASSAGE?Craig Crawford is a fine reporter. I have almost always enjoyed his appearances on cable news. He is mostly liberal although it became clear that he is one of those Texas Dems who has been slighted too...
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Arthur of the Roundish Table--The Two Quests Continue

Two hedgehogs are wandering through the grass, following a knight.Hey Fred.What Hilda?There is a wild boar following us. He is scary looking.They both had picked up the pace a little in their pursuit of Lancelot, but this new straggler began...
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The Undeserving Poor

Alex Koppelman of the famous War Room over at Salon on Friday noted that the people from the 'Right"...are in a tizzy over an Associated Press photo that shows a man taking a picture of Obama using a cellphone....The first...
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Arthur of the Roundish Table--The Holy Quest Begins

(National Geographic reports that Britain's Oldest Toy Found. The carved figurine--most likely of a hedgehog or a pig--was discovered during an excavation of a wooden fence near the prehistoric stone monument. The figurine is estimated to be over 2,000 years...

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