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If you don’t yet know who Susan Boyle is, crawl out from under your rock, go to Youtube, watch all seven minutes of her “Britain’s Got Talent” audition, then come back to this page and continue reading.   A dowdy, 47-year-old, never-been-kissed Scottish woman has turned the entertainment world on its ear and elicited a genuine [...]

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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
                                              — George Bernard Shaw
This quote will be at the top of my argumentation syllabus from here on.  And, sadly, it probably won’t matter to anyone but me.   Oh, well . . .

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Tomorrow I go to the post office to put a very large check into the mail made out to the IRS.  Meanwhile, a bunch of Republicans are staging “tea party” demonstrations across the nation for lower taxes.   (And isn’t their W-onder Boy the one who grossly increased the national debt, increased the size of government, [...]

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Zen Riddle

Zen Saying:    All this world is in your own mind.
So does that mean that people who believe in life on other planets have multiple personality disorder?

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Gaia Knocks

Gaia knocks at the window.
I sit at my desk and stare into a screen of
chicken scratch letters on a snowy field. 
The keys feel like river pebbles rubbed smooth from eons of erosion. 
Beside me is a maple bowl turned by a local craftsman which holds my crystals –
Tree agate, Bloodstone, Selenite, Snowflake Obsidian,
Labradorite, Carnelian, Sodalite –
the [...]

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I have two more things to say about the Obamas in Britain:
1)    The Queen hugged Michelle Obama, and the press said the two ladies “genuinely seemed to like each other.”  In fact, Buckingham Palace officials said they could not remember the Queen ever showing such a public display of affection.   I take back everything I [...]

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CNN was abuzz last night about all the protocol the Obamas would have to follow to meet Queen Elizabeth.  Fortunately, they were not required to bow.  Apparently American citizens don’t have to bow to the Queen of England.  
But there were other considerations.  They were not to speak until the Queen spoke first.  They were not [...]

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