Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Banned Books Week: Day Five
Savage Youth

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by Pa Rock Cultural Commentator William Golding's novel, The Lord of the Flies , has become a literary classic, one that often appears o...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Banned Books Week: Day Four
The Top Ten List

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by Pa Rock Cultural Commentator I pulled the following list off of the Internet today. There was no information given as to who made the sel...

'Splain Yourself, Sarah!

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Actor Matt Damon is in a major snit over Sarah Palin's creationist views. Apparently McBush's silly gi...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Banned Books Week: Day Three
Incendiary Prose

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by Pa Rock Cultural Commentator Sometimes books are just so blatantly God-awful that banning them isn't enough to ensure that their free...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

They're Back!

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Arizona's state bird, the blue-haired snowbird, has started its annual migration into the Valley of Hell. ...

Banned Books Week: Day Two
War: What Is It Good For?

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by Pa Rock Cultural Commentator I can vividly recall the most difficult book that I ever read. Joseph Heller's Catch-22 was so bewilder...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

Banned Books Week: Day One
The Works of Mark Twain

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by Pa Rock Cultural Commentator American literary scoundrel, Mark Twain, has been dead for nearly a century, yet his works stir as much cont...

A Good Man Passes

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Paul Newman died yesterday at his home in Connecticut. He was an actor, a damn fine actor, and he was so much...

The Pulpit Initiative

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Pastor Gus Booth is a man on a mission who has very little regard for the foundation of American democracy. P...
Friday, September 26, 2008

Who's Calling?

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist I remember years ago when the telephone companies first began talking about Caller I.D. At last, I thought, th...
Thursday, September 25, 2008

More on Pygmies

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist I had a comment from "Anonymous" on my blog last night about the shortcomings of G.W. Bush and Sara...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Of Pots and Kettles and Pygmies

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist What really scares me about Sarah Palin being one heartbeat away from the Presidency is that I consider her to...
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The Fine Art of Passive-Aggressive Jurisprudence

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by Pa Rock Citizen Journalist Last July I wrote about a high school teacher in the Tucson area who was brought to trial on a charge of litte...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Happy Birthday, Tim!

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by Pa Rock Proud Father My youngest, Tim, turns twenty-nine today, and he knows how very proud I am of him. But I would like to say so publi...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Deepak Chopra Reveals Sarah Palin

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Physician, author, and New Age philosopher Deepak Chopra wrote an amazing piece recently on why some Americans are so enthralled with Sarah ...

Another Greyhound Stabbing in Canada!

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by Pa Rock Canadian police are investigating yet another stabbing on a Greyhound bus. This weekend a 28-year-old man stabbed a young man (no...

Who's Really the Elitist? (Part Deux)

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by Pa Rock Previously in this forum I have made fun of John McBush's assertions that Barack Obama is an elitist, pointing out that the w...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

Ghost Town

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by Pa Rock Movie Critic Ghost Town is a wonderful film, funny and touching, a good story brought to life by an outstanding cast. It is a qu...

The Best of the West

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by Pa Rock Food Critic I was telling a friend recently about the wonderful burgers at What-a-Burger . They were, I stated boldly, the best i...

Who Really Subsidizes Our "World Class" Health Care?

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by Pa Rock Health Care Consumer Several years ago I listened to a classmate in the Social Work Graduate Program at the University of Missour...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

Free at Last!

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by Pa Rock Years ago I was offended by a sales clerk at the Wal-Mart in Neosho, MO. I had a school photo of a foster child that I needed to ...

It's Not About You!

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by Pa Rock This election is not about you, and it certainly isn't about me. It's not even about our kids. This election is about our...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Around this Wretched Desert

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by Pa Rock The summer is quietly slipping into fall in the Valley of Hell. Today the temperature barely reached 100 degrees, and tonight it ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Macho!

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by Pa Rock I came across a small gem of a novel in the bookstore at the Alamo last month. The book is entitled Macho! and the author is Vic...

Identity Theft

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by Pa Rock A senior NCO at Luke Air Force Base sent out a base-wide email today stating that she had been checking her accounts on-line last...

It's Still the Economy, Stupid!

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by Pa Rock As I have written previously in this forum, I have expended quite a bit of effort in making sure that I have enough of a retireme...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Rusty Pails #47:
Moving On

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by Rocky Macy We closed down our camp last week and most of us found our way home. I say most of us because Shadetree Mike, who really didn...
Monday, September 15, 2008

The Protests Over Liliana

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by Pa Rock Last night, in the middle of the night (Arizona time), a fellow named Alexander posted a comment on the blog entry immediately pr...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

Mr. Bush, Tear Down Your Wall!

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by Pa Rock I have used this forum to sound off on the subject of immigration several times in the past. Last November I applauded students f...
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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Pure Coen!

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by Pa Rock The reviews, at least the ones that I read, weren't that stellar, but I went to see Burn After Reading this afternoon determ...

One More Reason Not to Shop Wal-Mart

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by Pa Rock BIGResearch, a national polling outfit that operates as "a consumer intelligence company" recently surveyed shoppers in...
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www.419eater.com

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by Pa Rock I had one of those NPR "driveway moments" this afternoon - I wanted to get out of the car - needed to get out of the c...
Friday, September 12, 2008

Sharing

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by Pa Rock Charitable Giver I tithe. I tithe better than most of the expensively suited and fabulously furred upper class “good” Christians ...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Of Lipstick and Pigs

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by Pa Rock The amoral majority of the Republican Party has worked its way into a major snit over Senator Obama's remark about McBush...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Selling Out Our Veterans

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by Pa Rock I am a fan of the G.I. Bill, and moreover, I am even a product of the G.I. Bill. After serving four years in the United States Ar...
Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Finger Lickin' Chicken

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by Pa Rock I saw an article on the Internet today regarding America's number one artery blocker, Kentucky Fried Chicken. It seems that C...
Monday, September 8, 2008

Hey, the Crackers Didn't Get the Memo!

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by Pa Rock Republican politicians have soaked the airwaves this year with suggestions that Barack Obama is an elitist, a not-so-subtle code ...
Sunday, September 7, 2008

The Savage Detectives

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by Pa Rock I've just finished reading The Savage Detectives , a splendid but rather lengthy tome about a group of poets who were on a m...
Saturday, September 6, 2008

The Doomsday Machine

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by Pa Rock I wish that I knew more about many subjects, physics being one that is near the top of my list. Several years ago I tried reading...
Friday, September 5, 2008

Banned Books

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by Pa Rock One of the items buzzing across cyberspace this week was an allegation that Sarah Palin fired the town librarian of Wasilla, AK, ...
Thursday, September 4, 2008

Dear John McBush

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Dear John McBush, Over the past two evenings I have written to your running mate and her daughter giving them my sage advice. And as there i...
Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Dear Sarah Palin

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Dear Sarah Palin, Tonight you are giving "the speech of your life" in Minnesota, and I am sitting at home in Goodyear, AZ, missing...
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