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Thursday, October 27, 2005

Exxon Profits At Unprecedented High

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Still more evidence that it pays to have friends in high places . . . the Associated Press reported today that oil giant Exxon's third-q...
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Friday, October 21, 2005

County Commissioners and Nov. 8 Election

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I attended a teacher meeting this week in which two of the three County Commissioners and the Springfield police chief spoke about an upcomi...
Sunday, October 09, 2005

Still More Evidence of Cronyism in Bushland

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I was trying to find a link to one of my favorite news shows when I ran across this article posted on Media Matters for America . The New Yo...
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Our Girl Harriet

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President Bush managed to piss everybody off with this one. The Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination has been roundly panned by pundits f...
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Sunday, September 18, 2005

Bad Boys, School Superintendents & Wal-Mart

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Last night, I ran into two of my former students outside the movie store. Brandon and Ricky were always in trouble for one thing or another ...
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Sunday, September 11, 2005

Where's the Love?

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The following is in response to Kevin Elmer's commentary in the News-Leader. Kevin Elmer's one-sided and utterly simplistic commenta...
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Monday, September 05, 2005

Used Syringes

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Today was a first. I've lived in this neighborhood for 14 years, and although there are a few shady characters renting houses a few bloc...
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Thursday, September 01, 2005

The Drowning of New Orleans

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The following snip is from Scientific American, October 2001 : New Orleans is a disaster waiting to happen. The city lies below sea level, i...
Saturday, August 27, 2005

Blogging from Iraq

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So much of the news about the war in Iraq is filtered through corporate-owned media that have their own political connections to protect, it...
Thursday, August 25, 2005

Jesus Addressing a Republican Fund Raiser

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Now that the Republicans have co-opted Christianity in this country, they have re-created Jesus in their own image. Here's a funny exce...
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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Springfield School Board Rolls Back, Rolls Over

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I'm not even going to justify this little speil with a link to the Gnews-Leader or quotations from proud school board members. After fin...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Bongs for Burgers! (from the springfieldian #6)

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Sunday, August 14, 2005

More Precious Mutants

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"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Parasitic Brother"

Precious Mutants (from The Springfieldian #5)

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My Little Antichrist From the Book of Revelations, it's "My Little Antichrist," archnemesis of all humankind. Exclusive Mark o...
Sunday, August 07, 2005

Downtown Saturday Night

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Downtown Saturday night in Springfield, Missouri is not what it used to be. Music from a dozen different venues fills the air. There are mis...
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Saturday, August 06, 2005

Novak a Little Testy (or little testes?)

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Conservative columnist Robert Novak must be feeling the heat of the CIA leak investigation. The normally cool and urbane man-about-Washingto...
Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Psychogenically Fugued Up

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Here's part of Carpenter's long-distance phone conversation with Detective Hamilton on Christmas Eve, according to police report:  ...
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Sunday, July 31, 2005

The Self-Abduction of Tim Carpenter

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It was right before Christmas back in 1998. If I remember correctly, the word character was being tossed around a lot by folks here in God...
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Friday, July 29, 2005

The Return of The Springfieldian

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Back in 1992, a little underground newspaper called The Springfieldian started circulating around town. It had a small but loyal following ...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Just Pretend It's All Okay

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Just pretend the world is safer since this grand incursion. Just pretend this will all end soon. Just pretend 23,000 Iraqi civilians aren...