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If you have sex with a prostitute against her will, is it considered rape or shoplifting?

Can you cry under water?

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

Once you’re in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

Why does a round pizza come in a square box? More »

We’ve somehow attracted a very persistent bird to our garage.  One with a cloaking device.  About a week-or-so ago after closing the garage door for the night there was a bird trapped inside and Susan came and got me to help shoo it out.  I have no idea what kind of bird it was; solid light brown color, long curved beak, and about sparrow-sized.  We got him/her out the door and thought nothing else of it … until today.

Susan came in and asked me why there were leaves and twigs all over her car – I don’t know.  I went out and looked and sure enough there were.  Then I looked up and there were the beginnings of a bird nest on top of our garage door opener.  Now that’s interesting, we’ve never had cohabitants !  We picked all the sticks and leaves off the car and left it alone for the time being.  Susan’s last words were, “We should keep the garage door closed.”  Did I listen ?  I guess not since I’m now writing about it.  More »

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
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I totally take back all those times I didn’t want to nap when I was younger.
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There is a great need for a sarcasm font.
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Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the heck was going on when I first saw it.
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I came across this tonight and couldn’t resist.  Check out the acronym for the World Health Office, Regional Office for Africa.

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The only thing I can say about this is Wow, shake my head in disbelief, and bow down to the almighty house – it kicked our ass today. Well, for the most part.

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Here’s what was “supposed” to have happened. Austin was going to come over at 10:30AM, before it got way to hot up in the attic. At 11:30 I sent him a text message asking if he was on central time and got a response of “my bad”. Not only was he late, he had forgotten about coming over completely. Anyway he showed up around noon, with the sun directly overhead blazing down on the rooftop. For the uninitiated to Florida summers and attics, you don’t go up in them unless it’s early morning or late at night unless you have a huge attic fan ventilating that heat out – 140 degrees is common without those fans. Even a lot of the professionals won’t do it except early in the morning, like A/C guys and cable installers. Austin was asking for it, he just didn’t know it yet.  More »

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I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it.. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why? More »