Sunday, October 31, 2010

What's in Your Calendar?

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com What’s in Your Calendar? Ipops and Blueberries are not a part of my life; small electronic gadgets look at me,...

Stalin's Office

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Did Stalin's office staff play "Secret Santa?"
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Coffee, Tea, or Justice?

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Coffee, Tea, or Justice? Even though my favorite waitress owns her little café’ I always tip her anyway – I kno...
Sunday, October 17, 2010

The Prophet's New Car

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Prophet’s New Car A Florida pastor has demanded that a New Jersey car dealer give him a new car for not bur...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

The Red Menace

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I'm especially proud of the loopy run-on sentence in the third-to-last paragraph. It's not "Who's on First" but, by g...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Love and the Ascending Aorta

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Love and the Ascending Aorta The other day I saw some pink ladies advertising along a street. They were waving...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Saturday Morning in the Bookstore

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Saturday Morning in the Bookstore Why are there now so many books of lists of ten things we must do before we d...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Guitars

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Guitars -- for those special fireside evenings when ordinary kindling just won't do.
Sunday, September 19, 2010

For a Football Player Dying Young

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com In the Light All of us must die; few of us are permitted to die while doing exactly what we should be doing. Th...
Sunday, September 12, 2010

Door Prizes at the Last Supper

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Door Prizes at the Last Supper This year a church (let us call it St. Waycool’s) in a certain university town w...

The Green Martyrdom

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One wonders if any martyr tortured to death ever cried as loudly as does a certain bishop who does not receive the veneration and money he f...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

"I'm learning shoemaking..."

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"I'm learning shoemaking and poetry, all at the same time." -- David in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Sunday, September 5, 2010

Random Acts of Thinkfulness

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Random Acts of Thinkfulness A great mystery of our time – are American children too fat, or are they starving? ...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

Plato and His Perhaps Imaginary Friend Socrates

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In the past few weeks I have re-read Apologia , Crito , Phaedo , and The Symposium . I marvel that the Athenian state did not possess the g...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Ham and Lima Beans and Inspiration

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Ham and Lima Beans and Inspiration Motivational / inspirational speakers often employ war metaphors and quote a...
Monday, August 23, 2010

A Review of Paul I. Wellman's THE FEMALE

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The Female by Paul I. Wellman. Wellman is remembered for his western history and western fiction, including The Comancheros , the basis fo...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Coffins -- Thinking Inside the Box

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Coffins – Thinking Inside the Box In an episode of Alice Flo said that when her time came she wanted to be cre...
Sunday, August 8, 2010

Wedding Bullet Blues

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Mack Hall The AP reports that in rural Turkey last Sunday a wedding went off with a bang when the groom shot his father and two of his aunts...
Friday, August 6, 2010

BRAVEHEART and TITANIC -- Joyful Comedies

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Anyone who can watch Braveheart and Titanic , especially the endings, without tears of laughter streaming down his cheeks has no soul.
Sunday, August 1, 2010

Manzanar

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