More evidence that rappers are of below-average intelligence:

"The media has been using Mars and his music as a scapegoat for this terrible tragedy," reads one post [by Mars, whom Jeff Weise claimed was an inspiration]. "Mad Insanity Records* do not condone the events that took place in Red Lake, MN and would like to state that the music released ( Read more... )

Coal operators are not an easily intimidated bunch. But there is no one in the state of Kentucky who rattles their cage like a forty-eight-year-old grandmother named Teri Blanton. A former chairperson of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, the state's largest social-justice organization, Blanton has spent the last two decades helping coalfield ( Read more... )

The Lakota was a true naturist- a lover of Nature. He loved the earth and all things of the earth, the attachment growing with age. The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to ( Read more... )

attention long-haired, curly-nailed e-hermits:

YOU'RE INVITED to a PARTY!!

Spring Break Busted Bash Redux!

Saturday March 19th
at the
Krantz/Bauman Abode

2810 Pleasant Ave #201

BYOBBBQ


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Who wants to have some fun this summer?

Come to the Preserving the American Dream Conference with me!

It'll be a blast! We can play games, make crafts, roast liberals, and go swimming in the many regional parks that were created by the strong regional planning body in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area!

She threw off her coat and flung herself on the divan. I watched her stare dismally at the ugly carpet. Sitting in the overstuffed chair, I puffed a cigaret and lit my eyes wander the profile of her curved back and hips. The dark corridor of the Central Avenue Hotel, the sinister Negro, the black room and the hopheads, and now the girl who loved ( Read more... )

It was the responsibility (and primary source of income) for the doorman at the hotel for which I once worked to watch the driveway. He alone had the benevolent power to allow people to park there, and he also had the fearsome duty to send them to the ramp with the commoners. The mightiest of the doormen, Terry, had many wise words about the ( Read more... )

Folklore is unthinkable without improvisation. What is the essence of improvisation? Do fixed texts play any role in oral tradition ( Read more... )

"We are no different than Dennis [Rader, accused BTK killer] in our journey in life. Regardless of who we are, we are all sinners and we will all be judged."-Michael Clark, pastor of Rader's church ( Read more... )

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