Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayer It’s Easy to Identify a False Cause So here’s the problem. You hear a report on television that a new study has found that people who take a daily multivitamin live longer than people who do not. “Wow,” You exclaim, “I better start taking a multivitamin” Simple, right? Well, […]
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The Kings By Julie Galosy We heard the church bells first: clanging some kind of secret message. They didn’t toll the time nor transmit a warning. They just chimed. Out of the window we saw the whole village in motion. Bundled up, they scurried down the hill, past the one-room church, toward the marina.
The Last Meal By Jim Rambo Eddie Pankowski was a member of Delaware’s Public Defender triumverate known as the “ski patrol”: Otlowski, Radulski, and Pankowski. He had the dubious distinction of being assigned to represent James Allen Red Dog. Red Dog was a thirty-nine year old Lakota Sioux Indian who had previously been convicted
Verónica By Estrella DaCosta It was Sunday. She was beautiful. Her sandy brown hair fell in curly ringlets around her face as she danced on the wood floor in a semi-circle. The live band was playing her song. I tried to coax her to come my way so I could join in the dance
Editor’s Page By Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez The Wit and Wisdom of George S. Kaufman If 19th century Americans had voted for the person most deserving in this W&W category, it surely would have been Mark Twain. Here, we make the case for a 20th century American who might have later won in that same exalted
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Judas, The Saint That Wasn’t The Enigmatic Apostle Who Betrayed Jesus By Dr. Lorin Swinehart He is remembered as one of the world’s greatest traitors, a figure of scorn and loathing, ranked alongside Benedict Arnold and Vidkun Quisling. In his Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri places him at the lowest level of Hell, a dark
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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Redeeming Works Alberto in the carpentry shop: Contagious enthusiasm Santa Cruz de la Soledad is less than 4 kilometers east of Chapala, but by many measures it’s separated from Chapala by light years. It sits back from the coastline, connected to a string of even more remote villages by
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren The Same Deep Water As Me By Nick PayneDirected by Neal Checkoway This play is about a fake claim pursued under the “no win no fee” personal injury legislation in the UK. Prior to 1999, an injured claimant was obliged to pay his/her solicitor for legal services, regardless
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Forgiving Those Bad Habits By Katie B. Goodektbgoode@gmail.com Be kind to people about their bad habits. Yours may be equally disgusting to them. I think we acquire our habits without much thought, slipping into them like a Freudian glove as children, wearing them into adulthood. Be it hair twisting, ear tugging, swearing, overeating, toenail
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Of Faith And Fables By Bob Haynes The Triple Filter Test The Internet, television and radio, have become major delivery sources of information for us. And they are able to do so with such rapidity, it simply boggles the mind. They have connected us no matter where we live—north, south, east or west. These
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