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Andrew Olmsted had a friend post his last blog after his death."Maj. Andrew Olmsted’s “Final Post” was published online-after the Rocky Mountain News blogger was killed in Iraq. Olmsted died Thursday with another soldier, Capt. Thomas J. Casey, 32, of Albuquerque, when rebels attacked with small arms near Sadiyah, the military said ( Read more... )

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Shattering Conventional Wisdom About Saddam's WMD'sBy John Loftus FrontPageMagazine.com | 11/16/2007 ( Read more... )

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Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby with The Kentucky Thunder covering Superfreak.

I laughed so hard, I had to play it twice to hear it.

We had a brown bag at work yesterday - for those unfamiliar, it means a meeting that you go to that you choose instead of going out to lunch. You bring your lunch and join the rest and learn something, or hear a talk or whatever. They're pretty cool - unless you have plans that would take you out of the building ( Read more... )

Poem: "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye,

from The Words Under the Words: Selected Poems. © Eighth Mountain Press, 1995.

KindnessBefore you know what kindness really is ( Read more... )