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Why People Watch Birds
I don't spend a lot of time watching birds, or least not as much as I used to spend. I do watch the Wrens and Sparrows(?) that spend a lot time eating pears and berries that have fallen from the...
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More Flat Earth Dummies
It remains a source of amazement and amusement to me that some people still believe that the earth is flat. From what I can tell this is only a very small minority of folks. Some of them are obvious...
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Grand Rapids Police and Teens Walking In Street
I've written about how I am not overly fond of police. In my experience and those of many people I know, police are overly aggressive with citizens, especially black people, and most especially with...
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Andre Williams Passes Away
I wrote before about Andre Williams here. He was one of the last of the old time rock-n-rollers/R&B giants. He just passed away at 82. If you happen to like old school R&B/jump...
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Movie Reviews: Never Grow Old
Never Grow Olddirected by Ivan KavanaughThis was a chilling Western with both classic and revisionist themes.It is sobering to grow older and see actors of your generation who once played sarcastic...
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Democrats, Heartland Cities, and Monopoly Capitalism
The 2016 Presidential election still vexes Democrats. Few pundits thought that Trump could win. Most experts argued that not only would the electoral "blue wall" of upper Midwest states prevent a Trump...
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The Mueller Report: Now What?
For almost the entire past two years most of the media and many elected Democrats were on the verge of orgasm about the imminent release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, telling anyone who...
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Book Reviews: Man Eater
Man Eaterby Gar Anthony HaywoodThis book is seemingly written deliberately to be very similar to Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard, screwcap films by Preston Sturges, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and...
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Joe Biden: Clueless, Creepy or just Cordial??
Woman speaking to Biden: You snapped my bra strap!Biden: I'm sorry I don't remember doing that.2nd woman talking to Biden: You rubbed my neck and gave me a back massage!Biden: You really need to be...
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12 Year Old Boy Fills Michigan Potholes
Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Or in this case a boy has got to step up and do what his city, county, and state government ought to be doing. I appreciate the initiative, gumption...
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Movie Reviews: Act of Violence
Act of Violencedirected by Fred ZinnemanAct of Violence is a noir film directed by Fred Zinneman, who also directed High Noon. Although Act of Violence is not quite as iconic as High Noon, it ought to...
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HBO Game of Thrones Final Season: Baratheons
Baratheons show why you should stay out of family feudsAt the beginning of HBO's Game of Thrones, Robert Baratheon appeared to be on top of the world. Robert was King of Westeros. Robert had won the...
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Judge says FGM is not a Federal Crime
This story touched a lot of different controversial topics: conservative judicial attempts to limit federal legislative authority, immigrant and religious refusal to hew to American standards, women's...
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Should The Voting Age Be 16?
There are some people, among them US Representative for the 7th District of Massachusetts Ayanna Pressley, who think that the national voting age for federal elections should be lowered to sixteen....
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Book Reviews: Drake
Drakeby Peter McLeanThis book is the first in a series. It's similar to works by Simon Green, Jim Butcher, Mike Carey and other authors who imagine a grimy seedy noirish world in which magic works....
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HBO Game of Thrones Final Season: Martells
Bad Writing Destroys House MartellDorne was, depending on who you talk to and how you understand the story, a way to bring in some storylines, settings and themes that weren't 100% based on Northern...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Final Season Episode 1
In 1066 Duke William the Bastard of Normandy invaded England, defeated the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, and became King William the Conqueror of England, changing the course of English and...
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Should We Make Everyone's Tax Returns Public???
How much money do you make? How many tax loopholes do you use? Do you have a bunch of medical deductions? Are you or your dependents suffering from some expensive and possibly embarrassing medical...
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Granny Says Batter Up!!!
There's little worse than someone who tries to harm someone who is thought to be unable to fight back, such as a child or elderly person. However, just because a person is a woman or even an old woman...
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Movie Reviews: The Possession Of Hannah Grace
The Possession of Hannah Gracedirected by Diederik Van RooijenAt first I thought that this was just a distaff remake of The Autopsy of Jane Doe. It certainly had a lot of the same surface similarities....
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