The Legacy of Barack Obama (Pssst--He's Not the Worst!)

By now you've probably heard about the poll that says Obama is the worst president since the end of World War II. We've still got several years to go, but it seems voters have made up their minds about the man who was to bring us hope, change, and a post-racial America. The worst president ever?...

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Bigger Than Life: The Movie That Speaks to Me

“Only great pain, the long, slow pain that takes its time... compels us to descend to our ultimate depths... I doubt that such pain makes us "better"; but I know it makes us more profound... In the end, lest what is most important remain unsaid: from such abysses, from such severe sickness, one returns...

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Use a Reel Mower!

It's summer time and so begins the lazy, hazy, crazy (and friggan humid) days of summer and the cacophony that is everyone in the neighborhood mowing their lawns. But I have a secret for you: real men and women use reel mowers. What exactly are reel mowers? Ask your father (or grandfather) and he'll...

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Lawrence of Arabia

"Lawrence's endurance seemed so great to the local people at Jerablus that they could not believe in his death, for 'he could outride, outwalk, outshoot, and outlast the best of them.' [Shaykh Hamoudi, the chief local foreman at Carchemish, said to an interviewer] 'Tell them in England what I say....

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