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Will the Real Slim Shady Please Grow Up?

( General )

About a year-and-a-half ago, I turned 30. It’s nothing, really; I still feel, for the most part, like I’m 16. I’m just more tired because I have to work all the time and do laundry and cook food and clean the kitchen and stuff. The major change actually came when I was 28: [...]

Suitable themes for Foundling Theory Fund research

OBJECTIVE: Creation Education: Creation Science Fair 2001
Creation Science has been long neglected in the pages of EastWesterly Review, and I hope that you kindly consider what these children are doing as proof that there are some valuable lessons to be learned. Why don’t you apply Creation Science to some of your godless texts, oh postmoderns? [...]

Ashcroft’s war on poon

( General )

According to ABC News, Ashcroft and the Justice Dept. are prosecuting obscenity for the first time in a decade. The target? Rob Zicari and Janet Romano, who run “The Hardest Hard Core on the Web.”

Granted, the site features films most people-even those lovers of regular porn-would gladly shy away from: depictions of rape and murder, [...]

Digestion time!

Is it time to digest maraschino cherries? Where did Martin Van Buren go to collage? What do Boy George and Pia Zadora have to do with each other, and why does anyone in the Netherlands care? Inquiring minds want to know.

Take2 Topics

( Musings )

Gossip…What people were overheard saying on the London Underground
Hezekiah, it’s perfect for us! Ten new topics generated weekly thanks to an eavesdropper in London are just right for poem titles.

NPR, part II

So, our crappy e-mail finally returned to a state resembling normal. And, in these few minutes that it might remain up, I thought I’d share my e-mail to the WCPN reporter and her answer.
——Original Message——From: Kathleen Davis
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:59 PM
To: Babin, Janet
Subject: Morning Edition piece.

Janet,

Interesting story this morning on “Morning Edition.” I [...]

On NPR ruining my freakin’ week

I’m new to this whole land o’ the blog. So, y’all will have to forgive me if I commit a few blog faux pas or some spelling errors, as I am at a loss without my spell check.

This is a story about NPR. An affiliate from WCPN in Cleveland called me last week for [...]