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James Riordan‘s current events article series, “A Well Thought-Out Scream”

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In high stakes poker the best players are always the ones with the icy veins and glazed eyes.  Try as you might, you can’t figure out whether they got a Royal Flush or a pair of twos.  They’ve master the poker face – the art of being unreadable.  This does

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The above photograph says it all.  At first it seems cute.  There are few things out there as cute as a seahorse.  Then you realize that what the little thing is holding onto is a pink plastic cotton swab often called a Q-tip after the original manufacturer’s product name. You know

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I know what you’re thinking when you see these weather maps with four huge hurricanes swirling around — what happens if they collide?  Of course, if you live in the path of one of these monsters, that thought practically paralyzes you with fear.  For those of us who have no

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Those of us who have been around awhile have noticed that hurricanes seem to be getting worse and worse.  They were always a horrific threat to people who leave on the southeastern coast, but the apocalyptic destruction of storms like Katrina, Ivan and Harvey were pretty much unheard of in

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They say that the older you get, the more fond you become of ears gone past.  Maybe that’s true. I know I have been thinking a lot lately about the 60s especially in regard to the art of the era having a strong influence on the young people of the time. 

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Everyone knows that having a lot of money gives you the freedom to what you want.  Usually, however, what people who are newly rich want is a whole lot of the same kind of things they had when they were poor.  They want a lot more house, a lot more

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Most people know the Gospel story of the Good Samaritan.  Jesus had been teaching people that they should “Love thy neighbor as thyself” so people started asking who did he consider their neighbors.  Who did Jesus expect them to love. Jesus then told the story of a Jewish man who went down

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I would like to thank my friend Cole Luck III for turning me on to this story originally based on an article for The Independent written by Andrew Griffin.  When I first saw the attached photo of the ancient Hebrew text I was temped to say that scientists were finally

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You know how a lot of science fiction stories go.  Some geeky guy are messing around with something and wind up changing the whole world.  As crazy as that sounds it’s happened a few times with guys like Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, and nerds like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. 

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Although most of us would label anyone who claims to hear voices in their head as needing psychiatric care, the truth is we all have voices in our head.  It may be the voice of your long gone mother telling you that you need to clean the house.  It might

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