Saturday, January 30, 2010

A Cookie and a Hug for the Nazis?

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Mack Hall That Long and Nazi Road The Nazi Party of Colorado has adopted a mile of US Highway 85 to keep tidy. Yes, when you think of commun...

A Cookie and a Hug for the Nazis?

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Mack Hall That Long and Nazi Road The Nazi Party of Colorado has adopted a mile of US Highway 85 to keep tidy. Yes, when you thin...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

Hapsburgs in Space

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Mack Hall For Blessed Karl I Time is a trap for those who will not hear The silver hymns soft-sighed among the stars, Or invisible winds whi...

New Sayings from the Old West

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Mack Hall Cinema, like jazz, is an art form that originates in America, and America’s optimistic view of herself is best shown in western fi...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

If They Told us the Truth

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Mack Hall You are not a valued customer. Your telephone call is not important to us; if it were, a human would be talking to you. This is j...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

What to Name Your Pet or Human

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Mack Hall Ashley Sanders, one of the many fine writers at The Beaumont Enterprise , posted in her Sunday column a list of the top ten pet na...
Sunday, January 3, 2010

Great Work -- Now Go Away

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Mack Hall Last fall a Navy commando unit in a brilliant operation captured a notorious terrorist alive. Alive. But the terrorist later sai...
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...