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Sports & Recreation > Sports & Recreation (Other) Curling explained to non-curlers: 1 of 3
Curling has something for everyone.For those interested in a very physical sport curling challenges the legs, lungs, arms and torsos of those brave enough to test themselves on the ice. Squatting in the hack, starting pivot for each shot, the stone is flipped over and cleaned. Set, focus and thrust, sliding forward behind a 4... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Indications that the long war will move to Iran: 12 of 26
Think for a moment,now that all the good wars have been foughtthe time is right and properfor a world government that can intervenein global strugglesand make the differencebetween peace and war,nutrition and famine,life and death for some,for manytoo manyThe nice thing about thermo nuclear warfare in Iran,is that it will onl... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Presidential Elections 2008 US presidential elections 2008: Presidential candidate pros and cons: 9 of 19
The campaign is winding its way toward November and the field has narrowed beautifully with the Republicans having swept all together into the perfect establishment figurehead John McCain, the most progressive white male elder, veteran of the ultimate failures of political philosophy, Christian America can find. With Barak Ob... More..
Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book reviews: Hombre, by Elmore Leonard: 1 of 1
The title of Elmore Leonard's 1961 masterpiece Hombre means "Man" in Spanish and as if to emphasize the importance of this title there will be no more novels published by Leonard until The Big Bounce in 1969. After five brilliant westerns from 1953 to 1961, why the hiatus? The end of the western, you say?Try to recall if ther... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Religious Speculations & Criticisms Why a new book of scriptures must be written: 1 of 1
The book being writtenNow that the end is in sightAll the days and the nightThis blight of lifeWe die to free the world of us,for us,by usTinkerbelle lives forever in usListen to the demandSettle out of courtThis is the story of humanityat the crossroadsFallen upon its knees to prayfor survival Some conception greater than it... More..
Arts & Humanities > American Literature Why Elmore Leonard should be President of the World: 1 of 1
The notion that the world needs a president or some other overwhelming central power, principle or entity is an idea born with the first awareness of the world as a place separate, something other than ourselves, outside that which we have direct and immediate control. This primal thought, most fundamental to the image and th... More..
Arts & Humanities > American Literature Book reviews: Last Stand at Saber River, by Elmore Leonard: 1 of 1
Last Stand at Saber River 1959The fourth western novel of the fifties, Elmore Leonard produces a warm family environment from which to tell his tale of one man against the mighty. Paul Cable born and raised in the Texas panhandle knows cattle and like all courageous Americans of yore headed west to make his own fortune.When t... More..
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Moonshine Wars.: 1 of 1
Movie reviews by and large are about the movie the reviewer has seenfeeling the need to review, does sothe reviewer is more concerned with the story than the film proceeds to write about the story and not the film.This is OK because as all Elmore Leonard fans know;there is no hoopdeedoodle worth writing aboutso you just know ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Will the USA attack Iran?: 33 of 53
As an Act of Theatre Set to the music of Eric Burdon and t'Sugain Backed by the delta dirt bands of Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters Imagine if you will a troop of America's sons and daughtersStranded and alone in the desert, finding their way from tomb to tombWorshiping the very spirit their nation was founded upon.This is a ... More..
Sports & Recreation > Golf Golf tips: Choosing the right golf clubs on the course: 5 of 7
Choosing the right club on the golf course is a function of only one thing; Ones ability to advance the ball toward the hole in as few strokes as possible. Any other approach to this decision is erroneous, extraneous and detrimental to the spirit of the game. Granted there are an infinite number of variables that can coexist ... More..