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Bane of my existence: March 2015
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Bane of my existence. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. I meant to write about this last weekend when it was still fresher in the news, but what the hell? The man's still around. He's going to run his mouth again. I guess I feel compelled to write about Phil Robertson's (the "Duck Dynasty" patriarch's) latest rant because I have to express how sick it made me feel. Did all those people standing with good ol' Christian Phil approve of the way he talked about blacks too? I figure if a person is prejudiced against o...
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jguyreview: August 2013
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013. Strength to Love" review. For Martin Luther King, Jr. the issue of Civil Rights was as Biblical as it was Constitutional. King’s words – in his speeches and writings – make abundantly clear that his social activism was inseparable from his Christian faith. Strength to Love. 8220;Let us not join those who shout war and who through their misguided passions urge the United States to relinquish its participation in the United Nations. These are days when Christians must evince...
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jguyreview: "The Most Dangerous Man in America" review
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Monday, December 30, 2013. The Most Dangerous Man in America" review. I think we cannot let the officials of the Executive Branch determine for us what it is that the public needs to know about how well and how they are discharging their functions. The 40th anniversary of the case brought the Pentagon Papers in the news again. At long last, the government has declassified the entire collection – more than 7,000 documents telling the dirty truth about how four U.S. presidents helped crea...Daniel Ellsberg...
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jguyreview: October 2013
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013. William James (Great American Thinkers) review. I was introduced to William James in a college class. Learned he is the Father of Pragmatism – a simplified philosophy that I cottoned to. So when I recently found a thin, paperback, paperback book about William James at a book sale in a church basement, I grabbed it up. A slim, succinct book (unlike James’s own books) simply entitled William James. 8220;The intellectual history of William James is almost an intellectual biography...
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jguyreview: "The Beatles" review
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Monday, February 10, 2014. If you're going to load up this year, reading Beatles biographies - and 2014 would be a great year to do that - this is the book to start with. It's not the greatest written book on the fabs or the most brutally honest, but it's the progenitor of all Beatle bios to follow. - The Beatles. To get the Beatle experience in print form, this book is a window. Like pot was a window for. Who knew that in two years, the band would be broken up? Early Beatles. Davies' biography was t...
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jguyreview: August 2014
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Saturday, August 2, 2014. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars review. David Bowie's monumental, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Is in the cannon, a desert island listen that belongs in the library files of rock alongside Sgt. Pepper's sticky fingers. But this album is no pretentious trip, no Yes or The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Musically, the greatest thing about the Ziggy Stardust. Album was the way Bowie melded the heavy metal of his 1970 Man Who Sold the World. A soldier with a broken ar...
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Bane of my existence: April 2015
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Bane of my existence. Saturday, April 4, 2015. Black hours. Around 5 am Shortly before I woke up. I was laying in bed, dreaming. I dreamt Mom had been cured of dementia. She had her mind back. Mental faculties, cognition - all in place. Even her former look had returned. Her hair was dyed red like it used to be. She looked middle-aged, around my age actually. Possibly a bit younger. Mom always was rather youthful looking. Her face looked smoother. Did she cuss a lot before? The facility director asked me.
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Bane of my existence: November 2014
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Bane of my existence. Friday, November 28, 2014. What in the hell? Some anti-drug song like that old lady, that "Just Say No" astrology consulting old chick would like? I hate the 1980s. I think it was a shit decade. Worst of the 20th century. But we don't live in that world. Never did. The whole godforsaken decade started with my favorite rockstar getting killed and my least favorite "great communicator" getting elected President. Hall and Oates had a string of hits in 1982. Fuck Hall and Oates. Like a ...
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jguyreview: April 2014
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Sunday, April 6, 2014. It was sexy, sultry, hot and sticky as the cotton slipping from the cypress trees of Riverside Park as summer gave way to fall in some backwater Kansas town. One look at the DVD box and you can see it. The muscular leading man, his shirt torn almost clean off, casting lovemaking eyes on the looker in a pink dress. Hot stuff for 1955. That's the year Picnic. Was released in theaters. Her mother is pushing her toward the easy life. Get crowned Miss Neewoallah (Halloween spelled b...
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Quinn the Brain: May 2006
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Making sense of history and drawing warmth out of the cold." - Dar Williams. Tuesday, May 30, 2006. It's funny 'cause it's true. Spouse: [DQ], don't put your feet on the computer screen. DQ: But I like to! Spouse: Well, we don't always get what we like. DQ: But I want to! Quinn: Well, life is tough. DQ: No it's not. Quinn: Not for you. DQ: Yeah, just for you. Posted by Courtney at 8:12 PM. Thursday, May 25, 2006. This is not my beautiful house! We sold the house. Praise be to Jebus! Tuesday, May 23, 2006.
