Recuperating

I love my mouth and fear bacteria. Using the  accessories inside the estuary  to dislodge  rubber corks is not routine practice. For that reason  it might surprise you to find that I threw caution to the wind in SA. Unfortunately leaving  custom behind resulted in a broken molar, a temp crown, some unexpected cuts to my …

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How Freedom Rings

Funny isn’t it, how freedom rings. We slaughtered Indians in this land of the free — to make it our democracy. They slaughtered a tyrannical demagogue, a mass murderer who made political dissent reason for execution. Is the barbarous murder of the leader of such a vile regime wrong? Murder …

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I Believe in Yesterday

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There is art and architecture that can’t be duplicated. And as we’ve seen before there are movies that no one should try to duplicate. It’s’ blasphemy to redo the coming of age chic flick Dirty Dancing, the movie in which a privileged girl develops a political mindset different than the …

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I Hate To Say I Told You So…..

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….. But I love to think it. In June of 2010 at the end of one of my have read (seen, listened to, and will miss) Friday segments I wrote… “Larry King has never been a draw for me, but if Piers Morgan replaces him I will miss Larry just …

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Rehab or the Slab

Russell Brand has a point in saying it’s time the media and the public change the way addiction is perceived “not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill” . The music industry ought to work on that perception as well. Giving 3 Grammy awards …

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First Class Badass?

If I read one more post stating that Murdoch’s wife is a badass I’m going to scream. Iron Man is a badass. The Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu characters in Kill Bill are bad asses. The Trưng Sisters were, and Navy Seals are, bad asses. Mrs Murdoch is a smart …

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