Works and Days: Everybody But You I don’t know how many forgotten Americans there are out, but I have a feeling the answer may well determine the next election. Read the whole thing. I hope our candidates do.

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In honor of what's falling.....again... outside my window. I have no clue where I'm going to put this latest dose--I think I need a bigger yard. Man, am I glad February is over, even if it DID have an extra day this year. Forget global warming: Welcome...

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Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

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It occurs to me that, best intentions or no, I always seem to wind up caught with my figurative pants down when the end of each class looms. Not only do I have a final exam to write by Saturday night, I am also frantically putting the finishing touches...

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....And so the spring tasks begin.... since we will probably be back in the deep freeze again tomorrow.

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Okay, so my first try at the requested cherry turnovers ("we don't need no steenkin' recipes!") didn't turn out too hot. In fact, there was a somewhat.... explosive.... aspect to them and we were forced to eat them with a spoon. With ice cream. "Cherry...

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Fidel Castro resigns as Cubas president - Yahoo News HAVANA - An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday. And here I...

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If we were just a touch less civilized...

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A visit from Mike Huckabee Thursday, Barack Obama yesterday in a closed visit that has raised some hackles, and a visit from Hilary Clinton today... now if the national media could only quit pronouncing it "Warsaw, Westconsin" we'd be all set. We already...

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Kosovo declares independence PRISTINA, Kosovo - Kosovo declared itself a nation on Sunday, mounting a historic bid to become an "independent and democratic state" backed by the U.S. and key European allies but bitterly contested by Serbia and Russia....

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