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Who needs the interwebs?1 comment

Jamelle wrote 1 week ago: This can’t be serious.  Taking a cue from computer illiterate Presidential candidate John … more »

Tags: Uncategorized

A Sports' Fan's Opinion: Iraq banned from Beijing Olympics3 comments

Zachary wrote 2 weeks ago: I was looking around ESPN trying to find something to write about and came across this story. The In … more »

Tags: Sports, 1980 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics, iraq, Iraq Olympic Team, Soviet Union, Kobe Bryant

Pet Vultures and Bad News Bears

burger2go wrote 3 weeks ago: I came around the barn on my way to put out some food for the band of cats that live there when I sa … more »

Tags: animals, day in the life, Humor, Observation, Personal column, Storytelling

Error

tilon wrote 1 month ago: Samuel prepared all his life. He was a hard working fellow and everybody saw him as a hard working l … more »

Tags: Life, Random, The anecdote, The Idea, technology, Humor, Irony

Snowbird Wilderness Outfitters. Check it!1 comment

Zachary wrote 1 month ago: Okay, in about 62 hours I’m headed off to the greatest camp in the world: Snowbird Wilderness … more »

Tags: Snowbird Wilderness Outfitters, Andrew's, North Carolina

The day rats spoke out

tilon wrote 1 month ago: Millions of them, everywhere, many refer to them as vermin, some just as rats, and other radicals ca … more »

Tags: Life, Random, The anecdote, The Idea, Philosophy, World

modern world

wim harwig wrote 1 month ago: I think this video from reuters shows perfectly the newest ideas about the coming “modern worl … more »

Tags: bicycle, bicycling, Cycling, our holy cows, Video, bicycles, biking, Transportation

Ancient Neighbors1 comment

burger2go wrote 1 month ago: It was really the simplest thing, a grayish square, maybe a quarter of an inch across, lying against … more »

Tags: day in the life, Nostalgia, Observation, Personal column, Storytelling, archaeology, Archeology

Behold, let there be light... And Internet was made!

lord8argos wrote 1 month ago: Yes, we’re all surrounded by it. It is growing indeed fast and no one can stop it. Did you kno … more »

Fragments, cuttings, and shards: A bolt out of the blue and the House that Amoeba Built

burger2go wrote 1 month ago: The meeting ran a little late. By the time I filed my story and placed something on the paper’s … more »

Tags: day in the life, Humor, Observation, Personal column, Storytelling, amoeba, amoebae, creationists, Evolution

Faith Hope Love4 comments

SanityFound wrote 1 month ago: Possibly a band that is totally underrated and unknown, I first heard Starsailor at V Festival back … more »

Tags: Songs with Substance, lifes lessons, Religion & Culture, Life, Living, Lyrics, Friendship, People, HOPE

Pacifism With Justice (15)

Ted Grimsrud wrote 2 months ago: It is more than a perverse attraction to warfare that makes pacifism unpopular in our contemporary w … more »

Tags: pacifism, Theology, nonviolence, Peace, Modernity, worldviews, Walter Wink

Update

tilon wrote 2 months ago: It was 6 o’clock in the morning, and something was going terribly wrong. As soon as the first … more »

Tags: Life, Random, The anecdote, The Idea, Computers, technology

The Cellist of Sarajevo1 comment

burger2go wrote 2 months ago: I’m afraid that we’ve had so much war in recent years that we have forgotten that heroism comes … more »

Tags: Heroes, Observation, Personal column, Storytelling, War

Fiction: In This Dream I was...

clarifying wrote 2 months ago: In this dream I was… …sitting in a room in my house trying to deal with the fact that the floor … more »

Tags: Fiction, HEN, chicks, straw, Pig, commode

Waiting for Batman

burger2go wrote 2 months ago: When Thorton Wilder’s play Our Town debuted in 1938, it was of the first Broadway plays to use har … more »

Tags: Computers, day in the life, film, Humor, Movies, Observation, writing

LOST or The Office?1 comment

Zachary wrote 2 months ago: Okay, I have a debate to start. In my youth group, there has been many discussions over the best sho … more »

Tags: Lost, Final Summation, The Office

Book Review: "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque

Zachary wrote 3 months ago: All Quiet on the Western Front has been proclaimed as “the greatest war novel of all-time. … more »

Tags: Books, Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, Book Review, World War I

A giant in the rain

burger2go wrote 3 months ago: Time is a slippery thing, and the least little bit of inattention on my part, and I never know when … more »

Tags: day in the life, Humor, Observation, Personal column, Storytelling, Travel


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