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Scoop’s Rant: A Congressional Referendum For Daytime Padiddle…
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Provoking thought, not people. Friday, May 29, 2009. A Congressional Referendum For Daytime Padiddle…. Punchbuggy’s wonderful little cousin where one is beaten severely for being the last person in the car to notice an oncoming auto with one headlight burned out? It’s been proposed. They say the effect on gas mileage will be minimal at best… Since I get nervously suspicious every time. Start telling me what matters, I decided to whip out my calculator and start looking at the math…. In order to complete ...
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Scoop’s Rant: May 2011
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Provoking thought, not people. Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Bozos, Blinkers, Make-Up and a Fork…. A mile later the picture is clear: Bozo is 94, 4 feet 2, and looking. Safety. A rusted 90’s Whirlpool washer slid from one side of the truck bed to the other with violent, unrestrained abandon; and to my surprise a black dog leapt into the air barely avoiding the rebounding appliance. I watched in disbelief at the next traffic light as this moron finished an omelet –. 8230; through the sliding rear window and into...
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Scoop’s Rant: eHarmin’ me dot com…
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Provoking thought, not people. Wednesday, August 20, 2008. EHarmin’ me dot com…. EHarmony, Match.com, swingerslane.com, and others of their ilk present a unique social challenge to our society. OK, maybe not that last one… there’s probably no good way to break. And maybe a few strangers. Match sites allow people to converse and ask each other out without ever once interacting in person –. It’s kind of like setting yourself up on a blind date. She wrote for 10 long minutes. When she was through she pu...
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Scoop’s Rant: Bozos, Blinkers, Make-Up and a Fork…
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Provoking thought, not people. Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Bozos, Blinkers, Make-Up and a Fork…. A mile later the picture is clear: Bozo is 94, 4 feet 2, and looking. Safety. A rusted 90’s Whirlpool washer slid from one side of the truck bed to the other with violent, unrestrained abandon; and to my surprise a black dog leapt into the air barely avoiding the rebounding appliance. I watched in disbelief at the next traffic light as this moron finished an omelet –. 8230; through the sliding rear window and into...
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Scoop’s Rant: Zero Gravity, Zero Sum...
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Provoking thought, not people. Saturday, April 23, 2011. Zero Gravity, Zero Sum. For Reesey, gymnastics represents friendship, fun, reward, and love. Love for the sport, love for her teammates and. Love for her coaches. For us, gymnastics represents commitment, reward for Reesey, her accomplishments, and all the qualities that participation in a team sport and individual sport affords, but above all, it represents. Do not for one moment doubt our resolve. April 23, 2011 at 10:09 PM. Survivors of Zero Gra...
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Scoop’s Rant: O Scoop, Scoop! Wherefore art thou Scoop?
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Provoking thought, not people. Monday, May 25, 2009. O Scoop, Scoop! Wherefore art thou Scoop? An epic novel by me that we’ll see on bookshelves in 2014-2015 – imagine that! Writing and editing it so far has been both cathartic and therapeutic; and exciting and time-consuming. I find it surprisingly easy compared to what I thought it would be like. So, anyway, in response to many of you who read. June 10, 2009 at 11:00 AM. June 11, 2009 at 9:36 PM. I think were gonna need some beer. O Scoop, Scoop! Get S...
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Scoop’s Rant: Phelps over Spitz is hard to Swallow…
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Provoking thought, not people. Monday, August 18, 2008. Phelps over Spitz is hard to Swallow…. Know… does anybody else wonder about Phelps' achievements? So no one misunderstands my angle, indulge me. Step inside my head for a spell. I’ll spill my thoughts out for you in detail to nosh on, then you decide. Modern sports have become mired in controversy over drug use and doping. The fundamental rationale for the World Anti-Doping Code (which is wholly adopted. And honesty; excellence in performance; and.
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Scoop’s Rant: I see London, I see France...
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Provoking thought, not people. Thursday, August 21, 2008. I see London, I see France. I played rugby for most of my athletic career so the elegance of the Olympic medal ceremony is, well, excuse the pun but,. And I know it’s a stretch). Between the ancient version and my rugby experience is. Speaking of nudity (‘cause I like to) how cool would it be to watch the Olympics play out nude like the ancient games in Greece? First, let’s lay a couple of ground rules:. I watch all Olympic sports (except soccer) ...
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Lyrical Rumpus: June 2011
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Scoop's modest attempt at poetry. Sonnets, Sestinas, and other random. Thursday, June 30, 2011. Growing up in a Catholic family can be difficult for a rambunctious and inquisitive little boy. Although God was always a choice in our house growing up; and although my parents were very liberal with their views on religious tolerance; school was a much different story. That by most rational standards was not even punishable…. The blackboard glowers upon the wall. Deleted words now clouds and specks. Through ...
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Lyrical Rumpus: Elegy, An Italian Sestina...
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Scoop's modest attempt at poetry. Sonnets, Sestinas, and other random. Thursday, June 23, 2011. One afternoon in college I was sitting in the library on the east side of campus mindlessly flicking through the tissue-thin pages of another. Anthology of English Literature. Volume 400-and-something-or-other. Barely minutes before I fell asleep in a puddle of my own drool something caught my eye. It was a poem titled Sestina. In each line of the first sestet begins with the obvious order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6....
