Month: November 2014
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The Great Carols Conflict
This post appears out of order–it should have hit the net before the last post, but I’m apparently not clever enough to handle complex things like calendars. I trust that you all are smart enough to figure it out, so here you go My wife has a little less Christmas spirit than I do. More […]
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My Favorite Christmas Records Countdown #24-26
Once I’ve broken down my wife’s resistance to 24/7 Christmas Music, I jam the old Sony 200-disc carousel full of Holiday CDs in slots 175-200. The day may come when the hearts of men fail and they listen to streaming Christmas Music but, as Aragorn said, “Today is not that day!” That’s right, I’ve got […]
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“Millennials” Love Pittsburgh: Duh. Of course they do.
My advocacy for Pittsburgh is tireless and nearly infinite. Yet another national article for the bandwagon. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/11/what-millennials-love-about-pittsburgh/383074/
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Thankgiving: Where Turkey Comes From
Well, that last post was serious. Time to get back to a more holiday-friendly, sillier tone. So, I ask the question: Where does Turkey come from? Why, from pretty girls, of course. We don’t see photos of famous actresses and beautiful models posed poised to slaughter the sacred bird in this age of heightened sensitivity–as […]
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Thanksgiving Food…For Thought
Way back in April, I followed a link to the awesome photo above, which itself had been taken from a twitter post by “Cleveland Frowns” and read through a few, mostly outraged, comments. The overall tones of the discussion were understandably angry, with a strong dose of condemnation over the general disrespect and insensitivity of […]
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Wednesday Words of Wisdom: Plato
I noted this Plato quote over at SFoxwriting.com, one of my regular stops when jaunting through the interwebs, and I was inspired to rebirth the old weekly quotes posts. It was either that or some kind of crude “hump day” thing each Wednesday, and I’m not some overgrown gone-to-seed frat boy so…. This one makes […]
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Immigrants Stealing “Our” Jobs?
I’m enjoying the sputtering protestations of simpleton would-be patriots in the wake of President Obama’s discussion of his plans to address immigration issues here in the USA. At base is the outrage that, after 6 years of the legislative branch refusing to allow any relevant, useful legislation to even be debated, the President is threatening […]
Old Road Apples 