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Book Reviews: The 13 and 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear
The 13 and 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebearby Walter MoersI am almost at a loss to describe this book. I liked it a lot. Truly did. But the combination of not wanting to divulge spoilers and not having a...
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Fox News and Sexual Harassment: Charles Payne Suspended
Sexual harassment is wrong. Adultery is also wrong. But in the Hughes-Payne affair we only know for sure that one of those things took place. This incident shows why it's usually a good idea to keep...
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Movie Reviews: Life, The Belko Experiment
Lifedirected by Daniel EspinosaGood B-movie that doesn't quite live up to its castThis film is not in the same league as Alien or The Thing but that doesn't mean it's not a worthwhile Saturday...
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Black Woman Tourist Thrown Down Steps In Amsterdam
People place different values on time and its importance. One person may get very upset if a friend or family member who promised to pick them up from the airport is ten minutes late. Another person...
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Donald Trump Jr. and Fredo Corleone
You may have heard that Donald Trump's oldest son, Donald Jr. has changed his story multiple times about meeting with a Kremlin linked Russian lawyer to discuss damaging negative information on Hillary...
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Book Reviews: Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor-a visual history commemorating the date that will live in infamyby Randy Roberts and David WelkyOn December 7th, 1941, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor. Japan destroyed the...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Dragonstone
Well Game of Thrones is back. Did you miss it. There are only seven episodes this season, the penultimate. I'm glad to see some storylines ending and eager to learn if some of my theories pan out....
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Republicans Fail to Repeal or Replace ObamaCare
The Republicans control the House, the Senate and the Presidency. Democrats can use procedural tricks,Senate tradition and appeals to the judiciary branch to slow down portions of the Republican...
View ArticleJimmy Fallon and Celine Dion Do Musical Impressions
I don't watch a lot of television. And I'm not really a Fallon or Dion fan. So even though this was an old bit it was new to me when I ran across it on Facebook a few weeks back. I thought it was funny...
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Ypsilanti Turkey Memorial
There was a local wild turkey that became a bit of a celebrity. This turkey, for reasons that shall forever be unknown, decided to hang around a busy intersection and hassle drivers, pedestrians and...
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Movie Reviews: Austin Found, Incarnate
Austin Founddirected by Will RaeeThis movie is being marketed as a comedy. Well it has comedic elements but it's really not slapstick or anything that would make you constantly laugh out loud. It's...
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Justine Damond Shooting
One of the most predictable occurrences in life is that many people simply do not understand or empathize with certain situations until they experience them. People who privately sneer at interracial...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Stormborn
Well THAT escalated quickly. There was a lot of action in tonight's episode as well as some unexpected tenderness. Both Jon and Daenerys learned again that just because you call yourself a ruler...
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Movie Reviews: John Wick Chapter 2
John Wick Chapter 2directed by Chad StahelskiRinse, Wash, Repeat. There is a line in Tolkien's Silmarillion in which Feanor, among the greatest and most tragic of the elven heroes, insults Melkor, the...
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Trump, Priebus and Scaramucci
Donald Trump, despite his immense wealth, success, and power is a profoundly insecure man. Perhaps this goes back to bad experiences during his toilet training phase. Maybe he knows that he's not...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: The Queen's Justice
Tonight's episode opened at Dragonstone, where Jon and Davos have arrived with a small honor guard of Northern men. Jon and Tyrion trade memories and ritual insults. Tyrion wonders if Sansa ever talks...
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Colorado landlord has sex in tenants' bed
I'm pretty particular about some things. I know that we all have immune systems for a reason, as I once explained to an even more germophobic relative, but all the same I'd rather not test my immune...
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HBO's Confederate Show
As you may have heard the creators and show runners of HBO's smash hit series Game of Thrones, David Benioff and D.B Weiss, have decided to create and produce another show for HBO. Tentatively titled...
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Book Reviews: The Last Mile
The Last Mile by David BaldacciThis book is second in a series but you shouldn't let that put you off from reading it first. I picked it up on sale. I was happy that I did. I didn't feel as if there...
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Chicago High School Graduation Requirements
In a decision which didn't attract much attention outside of Chicago, perhaps because people don't think it will make that much difference, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago School Board...
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