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Simple Thoughts

I remember being in my early teens and complaining to my father about something I had learned about the American political process (if I remember my 13-year-old self correctly, it was probably the electoral college).  His response?  Your typical American one – that there’s no where better in the world to live.  One friend of […]

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The Typo Eradication Advancement League

Nobody’s perfect, and when it comes to typos, that adage seems even more true (my mother noted a fantastic one I’d made the other day – “he loves with his mother” rather than “he lives with”).  So two young men – one of them local (to me, that is), are doing something about it – […]

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Saudi woman murdered for using Facebook

Facebook is certainly a news heavyweight as of late; first Fouad Mourtada, now this?  Well, technically this happened first – last August, a Saudi woman was beaten and shot by her own father for chatting with a man on Facebook.  The story was untouched by Western media and only truly emerged this week after preacher […]