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Reckoning Time and Money

It all seems so systematic, arranged, and orderly.  Sixty seconds make a minute, 60 minutes make an hour, 24 hours make a day, and one day equals one complete rotation of the planet earth. About every 30 days the moon … Continue reading

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Davos Hootenanny and Salvation Call

Despite the reformers endless efforts to encircle mankind, some persist beyond the broad extent of their casted net.  In the backwaters of the Republic, for instance, the distant rumble and flicker of Saturday night hootenannies still befall yonder the mighty … Continue reading

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Requiem for a Dictator: Kim Jong-il

There are places on the face of the earth where, although the sun may occasionally shine, they’ve never seen a ray of light.  There’s a cold dry Siberian no man’s land that extends east from the Ural Mountains to the … Continue reading

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Change We Can Believe In: Soak the Rich

Sometime in early 1848 French poet Alphonse de Lamartine had a change of appetite.  For whatever reason, he no longer took to gobbling up frog legs but to gobbling up the new, forward thinking, ideas of the day. It all … Continue reading

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