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Middle-aged pornography I've just added a friend of a friend at Facebook and discovered a luxurious website. The friend-of-a-friend is ...

Best sixth grade talent show act I've seen in months I may be coming to the party late. This kid 's video has had over 26 million...

More World Cup, more nostalgia Back in the olden days, during the last World Cup, I put this together. I thought of it today watching Niger...

A little Tuareg music I posted a link to this band, Tinariwen , which played at yesterday's World Cup Concert, over at Comic Strip of...

Those who don't remember history lessons are condemned to repeat the course There seem to be so many observers of the past week's ...

Our Hearts Were Touched By Fire A speech by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., delivered Memorial Day, 1884, at John Sedgwick Post No. 4, Gr...

Yeah, I thought he did it. The show is finally over in New Portland, Maine, where Jeffery LaGasse pleaded guilty yesterday in the 2007 mu...

They were standing under a tree each with an arm round the other's neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them...

Best commencement speech ever Someone recently posted this on a cartoonists blog, along with a second link, which I found was dead. So rath...

Urban Life So here we are in the city. Granted, Lebanon, New Hampshire, (population 12,568) isn't much of a city, but if you figure tha...

Cussing in the press ( not a post for the readily offended) Here is an intelligent discussion from the Guardian about the use of profanit...

Interview with an Earth Day organizer I’m editing a weekly children’s publication for the Denver Post these days, and we did an Earth Day i...

Fair, balanced, dishonest, incompetent This would be funny if there weren't a lot of people for whom Fox News is their main source of...

Leonard Cohen at his best

Of religion, culture and productivity (updated) I've been a little remiss in keeping up with Richard Henry Dana's blog over at ...

The town they have loved so well This report on the upcoming offensive against the Taliban in Kandahar is remarkable in that it does not sh...

And now, a better look at animals If you've never been to a stock show, join Houston Texans' tight end Joel Dreessen and defensi...

I've got nothing to add Peruvian surfer Domingo Pianezzi rides a wave with his alpaca Pisco at San Bartolo beach in Lima, March 16, 201...

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