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Where do I begin, save to say that I didnt expect this to happen for at least another 10 years? Now that ive been looking through some old things that she kept for so many years, I dont know. The tiny osh-kosh overalls; the little red baseball cap; the little-bitty ALF slippers. All these things i wore as a very young child and, while the sight of ( Read more... )

On the 23rd of August, my mother suffered a massive heart attack resulting from 100% occlusion of three main arteries to the heart. The damage was so extensive, that initially all professional accounts were that the myocardial infarction of the anterior wall (Which is apparently the absolute worst kind a human being can possibly suffer) should have ( Read more... )

Today, I opened the Houston Chronicle (one of four that i read daily) to the editorial section, as it is my inclination, and came along this article ( Read more... )

    I stand here in defense of my fellow citizens of our most beloved Republic. Never would I brow beat or out-intellectualize anyone into thinking that they could never speak their mind. However if someone would ever dare to suggest that dissent against any person or institution of power in this Republic, one of the most fundamental aspects of ( Read more... )

So im sitting here on a Monday night drinking Scotch and thinking about how long its been since I last updated my LiveJournal. . .2 months, eleven days since I last made any meaningful post here by my count ( Read more... )

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I’m going to do something here that is almost unheard of for Americans in the era of the War on Terror; I’m going to take a political risk, and I’m going to go out on a limb here.

I mourn the loss of the coyuz советских социалистических республик

Fourteen years after the fact; I mourn the death of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.

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Im not naive. i know that this kind of thing goes on even today. I still couldnt help but be offended by the very existance of this company and the brazen pride that they have in the despicable work they do.

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