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Todd Lazarski’s Make the Road by Walking, Book 2, Part 7
And so it hit me, like one of those dreams where you’re falling, and then you wake with a jerk to realize that not only are you safe, but immaculately so, in a bed, which would have broken the fall anyway. You feel a bit foolish, not having known that the cushiony mattress was there [...]
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Important News From Satire!On July 19, we…
Wanted to link you to still another story one of us posted somewhere else. Stockyard Magazine, the wave of the future. Give this site your undivided attention, and peep the slick words by this smooth author…
http://www.stockyardmagazine.com/choppingblock/heard-mentality/
Wishing everybody a lovely second half of their summer, and hope you made the most of the [...]
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Unemployment #4: Optimists Are Full of Sh*t No, that’s not a very optimistic title. You are absolutely right.
Just trying to be honest here.
As one slogs through unemployment, popping his or her head up time and again only to have it smacked back down, an unwilling participant in a universe-wide game of whack-a-mole, waiting on an opportunity to make an employer look [...]
Middle Ground Exists: Abstinence Education Is a Waste of Money I’m on an email chain with friends of mine from college. The best conversations we have usually revolve around sports or girls or funny things that happened back in college. The worst, without question, deal with politics.
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When I say erupt, [...]
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