Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Catholic Keyboard Commando -- a Little Doglessmatic Doggerel

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Mack Hall The Catholic Keyboard Commando -- A Little Doglessmatic Doggerel Dedicated to Certain More-Catholic-Than-You Bloggers A species of...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Explosive Ivanas

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Mack Hall Ivana Trump, who is famous for her marriages or something, was required to leave a commercial aircraft at Palm Beach for misb...

Explosive Ivanas

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Mack Hall Ivana Trump, who is famous for her marriages or something, was required to leave a commercial aircraft at Palm Beach for misbehavi...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

An Advent Valentine

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Mack Hall An Advent Valentine For, of course, happy Valentine Marie Petty And now comes Valentine, an autumn gift; Vertumnus and Pomona thus...

The Arts of Christmas

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Mack Hall Christmas is pretty. Of all the holidays, both religious and secular, Christmas inspires more and better attempts at literary, vi...
Sunday, December 6, 2009

The National Christmas Wish List

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Mack Hall Tiger Woods – a new set of golf clubs. Or at least a new driver. American soldiers – the same medical care and legal protection g...

Having the Neighbors for Supper

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Mack Hall Near Herxheim, a small town in the Rhineland-Palatinate, archaeologists have found the fragmented remains of some 500 folks who we...
Sunday, November 22, 2009

An Adjective Christmas

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Mack Hall So thoroughly did our Puritan ancestors purge Christmas from the culture that in the New England colonies the observance of Advent...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Who Cleaned up the Park?

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Mack Hall Someone said that someone said that someone else said that the ‘net said that someone said that the sexiest accent in the world is...
Sunday, November 8, 2009

Remembrance Day: "Let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Them"

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Mack Hall In a happier the world the remembrances of Armistice Day / Veterans’ Day would all be old ones told in peacetime, jolly boot-camp ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Death Lodge

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Mack Hall In an episode of the minimalist police drama Adam 12 , two of The People burglarize a house while it is under a fumigation tent. ...

Death Lodge

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Mack Hall In an episode of the minimalist police drama Adam 12 , two of The People burglarize a house while it is under a fumigation te...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Moehammed O'Chang, Uiger-Irish-Han Detective

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Mack Hall I blame it all on Agatha Christie. In the 1920s she created the fictional detective Hercule Poirot based on the characteristics o...

Moehammed O'Chang, Uiger-Irish-Han Detective

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Mack Hall I blame it all on Agatha Christie. In the 1920s she created the fictional detective Hercule Poirot based on the characteristics o...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Second-Hand Thousand-Yard Stare

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Mack Hall The Second-Hand Thousand-Yard Stare or The Doggerels of War Dedicated to the Liars and The Saps Who Believe Them Tell me ‘bout th...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

Honk if You Cheered for the Iceberg

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Mack Hall Bumper stickers are not nearly as popular as they once were, but they’re still rather good fun. A young friend gave me one that r...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

A Shot in the Light

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Mack Hall In the next few weeks Americans must make a life-or-death decision for themselves and for their children – ‘flu shots or ‘flu shot...

A Shot in the Light

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Mack Hall In the next few weeks Americans must make a life-or-death decision for themselves and for their children – ‘flu shots or ‘flu shot...
Sunday, October 4, 2009

Who's Sari Now?

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Mack Hall The fists and the curry were flying aboard an Air India flight last week as two pilots (male), an air hostess (female), and at lea...
Saturday, September 19, 2009

Freedom from Religion -- Thank God

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Mack Hall Americans generally sneer at the religions of others. I think this is a fine tradition that we should maintain, for in some other ...