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August 22, 2009 06:54 PM EDT --
I published my first short story this weekend, here's a sample :-)
Nothing had changed.
Hank looked as he did the last time I’d seen him. He was strong, healthy and in his grey zip-up . . .
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October 05, 2008 11:02 PM EDT --
The money was supposed to go to support the California Family Council's charitable mission, instead, most of it went into the pockets of the organization's employees.
Since 2003, . . .
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July 31, 2007 04:51 PM EDT --
Help Wanted
An Austrailia company needs a few good men and women -- to test condoms. "While the successful applicants will not be paid, each will receive a pack of Durex sex products, a chance . . .
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July 20, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
Carried across the bookstore threshold
Harry Potter has trumped an Oregon couple's honeymoon. Instead of a newlywed suite, their first stop after the ceremonies are over will be a bookstore. . . .
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June 30, 2007 01:15 PM EDT --
Britain gets persistently politically correct
The word "prostitute" has proved too much for Great Britain. The country is moving to remove the word from its law books, because, . . .
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June 20, 2007 11:07 AM EDT --
They've got bridges for sale in Brooklyn, too
Beijing Lunar Village Aeronautics Science and Technology Co. got a red card yesterday. A Chinese court told the company that it can't . . .
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May 30, 2007 10:43 AM EDT --
Cindy Sheehan, long-time war-protestor who onced camped on President Bush's Texas lawn, has called it quits.
Honestly, I never liked her. Really, I strongly disliked her. I did, . . .
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May 20, 2007 12:17 PM EDT --
Actually, just to San Diego. And Cincinatti, and Dallas and Oklahoma City, and back to Dallas. Then to Columbus, to Pittsburgh. I lost track around the way.
But I came home to some advance music from . . .
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May 20, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
“Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who . . .
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May 15, 2007 11:54 AM EDT --
"Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, 'Who'd you call a faggot?'"
-Jon Stewart
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May 13, 2007 10:23 AM EDT --
“The whole (global warming) thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.”
-Jerry Falwell
(I'm in San Diego for . . .
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May 08, 2007 07:59 PM EDT --
“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
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May 07, 2007 12:21 PM EDT --
"Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, . . .
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May 05, 2007 09:26 AM EDT --
A guy somewhere once said that studio films are all spectacle and no truth, and independent films are all truth and no spectacle. Spider Man 3 prooved him right.
A visual feast of action and CGI, Spiderman . . .
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May 04, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
I've been guilty of accidentally sending content to a group in which it doesn't fit. If the group was moderated, the content was rejected, I got an e-mail and then made a mental note to never do . . .
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May 04, 2007 11:58 AM EDT --
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."
-Lin Yutang
(I've started to number the . . .
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May 03, 2007 08:44 AM EDT --
“Christianity stands for freedom, we don't want to impose our religion on everyone else. We just don't want secular humanist values or homosexual values to be forced upon us under the guise . . .
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May 02, 2007 05:03 PM EDT --
I was cleaning out my computer and came across a styleguide a wrote for my newsroom a few years back. Most of it was broadcast-specific (honk if you love VO/SOTS!), but these little grammar pieces are . . .
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May 02, 2007 08:49 AM EDT --
It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of . . .
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May 01, 2007 09:17 AM EDT --
"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and get on with their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world . . .
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Justin M.
San Diego
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