Sunday, March 27, 2011

The Reporter in the Closet

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Reporter in the Closet In a masterful, post-dawn kinetic journalism action strike, Vice-President Joe-the-T...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Technology -- EEK!

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Technology – EEK! If an individual were to awaken from a winter of hibernation and read the news today he would...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Reverend Charlie Sheen

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Reverend Charlie Sheen An organization styling itself Family Radio declareth unto us that the world is going to...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

The World's Largest Shopping Mall and Noodle Cart

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The World’s Largest Shopping Mall and Noodle Cart The world’s largest shopping mall is open for business, but t...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

The Day the Attack of the Killer Dachshunds Didn't Stand Still

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Day the Attack of the Killer Dachshunds Didn’t Stand Still “I perceive that you do not own an Afghan hound ...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

A Martin Luther King Moment

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Rioting in the Streets Any civilized man must grieve to see benighted peoples, deprived of culture and literacy...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Mucus on Call

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Mucus on Call My mother’s last words to me were not “I love you,” but rather “Now you know I like lots of ice i...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

The Discount Dictator

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Mack Hall The Discount Dictator His Excellency the President Presidential Palace Cairo Egypt Alternative address: The Kloisters Ski Resort a...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Captain Blood Did Not Save the Whales

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Captain Blood Did Not Save the Whales Captain Blood, the 1922 Rafael Sabatini novel on which the terrific Olivi...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Cloning the Woolly Mammoth

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Woolly Booger Scientists from several countries are using the frozen DNA of a long-gone woolly mammoth in an at...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Katherine Mattie Bevil Blanchette Hall, 1922 - 2011

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Katherine Mattie Bevil Blanchette Hall In 1917, Louie MacMicken (Mack) Bevil left off pitching pine-knots into the firebox of a Santa Fe loc...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Saving Private Robot

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Saving Private Robot 30 robots wearing European faces and controlled by Filipino technicians are teaching Engli...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

A Remembrance of Death

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The last summer leaves at last spinning silently down in the grey, misty, dying days of December often remind thoughtful men of their own mo...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

The Patented Electrical Reading Machine & Moustache Waxer

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com The Patented Electrical Reading Machine & Moustache Waxer For Christmas long ago my parents gave me a boy’s...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

Christmas Among the Sandbags

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Christmas Among the Sandbags An old Navy buddy telephoned me for Christmas, and we marched down memory grinder ...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

Advent Rosary

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Advent Rosary Dark Advent is a silent waiting time When autumn chills into pale, year-end days And joy seems smothered by hard-frosting rime...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

False Grit: The Remake of True Grit

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com False Grit True Grit has been remade, and we true-as-blue-steel John Wayne fans are as apoplectic as Yosemite ...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Religious Vocations

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In all of East Texas there are perhaps ten men who have not been called to the Christian ministry, a record matched only in certain counties...

Black Friday -- News from the Front

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Mack Hall Mhall46184@aol.com Black Friday – News from the Front Once upon a time holidays did not feature casualty lists or after-action rep...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

The Infallibility of Catholic Bloggers

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Not even the most ego-driven Bishop of Rome in the Church's 2,000 year history ever claimed the all-encompassing infallibility of a too-...