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  • So what were mosquitoes like in the prelapsarian world?

  • Right now I'm living in fear of being dragged before the city council on charges of corrupting the youth. When ten year old boys tells you your room is the messiest room in the country, you know their mothers have been t…

  • don't be shocked. my new favorite country song is Good Little Girls by Blue County.

  • I haven't had to look at pictures of little girls in tutus or at a single list of numbers since half past eight lastnight, and the entire mailing was finished at seven or eight this morning. This is a good feeling. Espe…

  • I was going to post this question among the comments to my "rant" below, but it occurred to me it would be a good question to put out here for everyone. Most of you have signaled you agree there's a problem with pop cult…

  • The three most beautiful things to pause and contemplate are pianos, rifles and Ford F-350's. I'd like to rhapsodize for a few moments, but, alas, my right hand is in somewhat severe pain right now. The entire left side…

  • I beg your pardon in advance if this sounds like a rant. It’s something I’ve wanted to say all year, only I couldn’t find the words to say it with. I felt it but I didn’t understand it well enough to express it, until Ke…

  • . . . my kinda guy Wright, who is 0-3 with a 9.75 ERA in three afternoon starts, is 8-19 with a 6.68 ERA in 54 career daytime appearances. He is 31-23 with a 5.11 ERA in 102 career night appearances. "I guess I just …

  • You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C.S. Lewis

  • I got my final grade report for the semester, and now officially have a B on my transcript. I started nailing my music theory homework the last four weeks of the semester, when I discovered it was entirely necessary to …

  • I seriously want to know. Why is music so vitally important to young people these days? It's one of the few things I know of that everybody is passionate about. For the most part the music they listen to doesn't deserve …

  • It must be summer again. I'm posting fragments from emails. It seems I rediscover email over the summers, and forget about it again every school year. ~~~I've written to so many people today that it would be plain unf…

  • Pastor Withington said this morning, in prayer, "We like to applaud ourselves on our honesty in confessing to You when we've doubted. But we have no right to doubt You. When we come before You confessing that we've doubt…

  • I wish just once I could come home for vacation in good health.

  • I want to see a Puccini opera live. The Glory of Their Times is a fantastic baseball book. There's something about moving out of college that makes you desperately want a good, strong hug. This Jane Austen quote is v…

  • I'm free! I'm done! I'm on vacation! My profound apologies for a total lack of response to your various comments! My email and my browser were both malfunctioning. Mr. Callihan, thank you! I've saved every one of those…

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