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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Final Season Episode 2
Episode Two took place entirely in the North-more specifically at Winterfell. This episode was another set up show in which there was a great deal of exposition, a little sex (not from Tormund), a...
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Michigan Gerrymandering Case
Gerrymandering is when a political party redistricts in an unfair partisan method so that its political dominance and ability to win elections is maximized while the ability of rival parties or...
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Book Reviews: What The Night Knows
What The Night Knowsby Dean KoontzI used to be a huge Dean Koontz fan. I picked up this 2010 book in a clearance sale. I liked the plot description and theme. But after reading it I was let down. Now...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Final Season Episode 3
The director for this episode mentioned that he was in part inspired by the Battle of Helm's Deep from the Lord of the Rings: Two Towers and Assault on Precinct 13. I don't think this episode quite...
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Flooding in South East Michigan and Metro Detroit
It is a matter of increasing frustration, annoyance and black humor to me that almost every time we get more than two or three inches of rain in SE Michigan, entire sections of our roadways and...
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HBO Game of Thrones: Thoughts on Episode 3 - The Long Night
I rewatched the most recent episode of HBO's Games of Thrones (episode 3). I debated it and discussed it with friends, family, and associates online and offline. I read other people's takes. I heard...
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Should Prisoners Vote?
Prison is not a place I ever intend to be. Prison by definition requires a reduction in or elimination of rights and privileges that everyone else takes for granted.You can't freely pursue heterosexual...
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Donald Trump is a Bully and Should be Impeached
Neutral Evil:"..neither groups nor individuals have great meaning. This ethos holds that seeking to promote weal for all actually brings woe to the truly deserving. Natural forces which are meant to...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Final Season Episode 4
There were some story advances towards the endgame in this episode, some losses, some seemingly inexplicable events, a few callbacks towards earlier seasons, and of course a few characters acting in...
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Movie Reviews: Avengers:Endgame
Avengers: Endgamedirected by Anthony and Joe RussoI finally got around to seeing this movie. As a bookend to the Avengers saga, which is one of the most popular storylines within the Marvel Cinematic...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Final Season Episode 5
I am Daenerys Stormborn and I will take what is mine with fire and blood!Well true to the series the penultimate episode had some shocks, thrills, and many character deaths. In the unlikely event that...
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GM Lordstown Plant Closing
When people are discouraged, prevented and/or excluded from serving in positions of power they often show an intense, even obsessive, interest in putting one of their own in the Big Seat, however it is...
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Daenerys Targaryen: Crazy Capricious Killer or Misunderstood Matriarch???
The Daenerys heel turn of burning King's Landing down and deliberately incinerating untold numbers of civilians caused a great deal of agita among some Game of Thrones fans.Some people think that this...
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HBO Game of Thrones Recap: Series Finale
Are you not entertained?This episode was written and directed by the showrunners, Benioff and Weiss. In the aftermath of the sack and burning of King's Landing. Tyrion walks through the ashes, followed...
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Random Thoughts on HBO's Game of Thrones Finale (1)
I don't think that the final season of HBO's Game of Thrones ruined the entire series but I do think that the final episode tried and came close. If we assume that all of the events came from GRRM,...
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Movie Reviews: Cold Pursuit
Cold Pursuitdirected by Hans Petter MolandThis is a yet another Liam Neeson revenge movie that was the subject of some buzz not just because of the tall actor's trademarked baritone badassery but...
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Boy Notices Stinky Feet on Airplane
The beautiful thing about children is that they have no filter. They have no concept of the idea of lying or pretending not to notice something unpleasant because doing otherwise might hurt someone's...
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Pay Your Tab Principal Comeau !
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should always pay your bar tab, promptly, in full and without complaints. Because otherwise, things could get ugly. But given many of the other scandals that...
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Waverly Woodson: D-Day Hero
My maternal grandfather was a WW2 Veteran. Unfortunately by the time I was old enough to be interested in such things I didn't see him that often. He was gone way too soon. It's true that you should...
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Book Reviews: The Border
The Borderby Don WinslowIn The Border Winslow concludes the story that he started in The Power of the Dog and The Cartel and which he referenced in The Force and Savages. As with those previous stories...
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