Spitball Army

He is twice guilty who regrets not an unworthy act. – Ling Po

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I walk into the neighborhood Subway to get lunch. An Indian woman is breast-feeding her baby in full view of the food prep area and all of the other tables. I obviously looked at her, as she was facing the front door at the very first table.

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And just about everybody does it better than the capering loon who does soft-shoe in the White House while young Americans are dismembered and splattered in Iraq. Sometimes when he speaks I can forget who he is momentarily and find myself actually pulling for him; probably from misplaced performer empathy. His speechifying has a strong odor of remedial reading about it, combined with an apparent fear that there might be some hard words ahead.

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I found myself reading the obituaries in the Birmingham News this morning, a section of the paper that I rarely investigate.  It struck me that it is an amazing challenge for a relative or friend to condense the life of a loved one to a small paragraph of newsprint in just one or two days.  Some […]

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The Good lad an author! I much like site!

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I stepped right into the next place in line. Apparently, that place belonged to the Chrysler Man. I was informed of this as he pushed me aside and stepped directly in front of me. At the same time, he began muttering epithets at me ranging from “bitch” to “cracker” to “peckerwood.”

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Was he a “sarcastic” person? No, there was not that tinge of maliciousness about him, necessarily. He didn’t seem to like himself very much, and was often self-deprecating in a strangely humorless way.

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My teeth tore them to pulp, the juices skewering and whimpering at the bottom of my stomach. It was so sad down there in my stomach. There was much weeping, and little gloomy clouds of gas pinched my heart.

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Yes, it is true, according to baby-names.adoption.com. Hussein is an Arabic name for a male, and it means “handsome one.”

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