Tag: minnesota
member name: Greg Schiller
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November 27, 2008 11:09 AM EST --
No one described home better than the poet Robert Frost
In Death of the Hired Man , he wrote, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
And so it . . .
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May 13, 2008 10:09 AM EDT --
I don't believe in "Global Warming".
No, not at all.
I've read some interesting studies about carbon forcing and others that suggest the whole thing is overblown, but at least . . .
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April 21, 2008 06:58 AM EDT --
I have yet to visit the eHarmony website, but I am curious. Can anyone tell me if the following items appear on their compatibility questionnaire?
- Which is louder: a pile driver or your snoring? . . .
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May 19, 2008 02:08 PM EDT --
After four hours of touring the flat expanses of Eastern North Dakota, I told my buddy I'd seen empty parking lots with more scenery.
At least parking lots have interesting stuff like white . . .
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April 01, 2009 10:01 AM EDT --
Could there be an entry in the White House speech-writing stylebook that reads, "A paragraph anchored by an inference to "Global Warming" can state anything and still be credible with . . .
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October 14, 2007 12:44 PM EDT --
None of this is my fault.
FOXNEWS is calling it “The Payday Massacre”, like I'm some kind of gangster killer. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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November 12, 2007 11:40 AM EST --
Religion in America is in steep decline, and I know why. Simply gaze upon any church built after 1950, and you will know why too. Modern churches are ugly as sin, and so too is modern religion.
In . . .
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March 24, 2008 08:13 AM EDT --
In January of 1976, Jimmy Carter smiled his way toward the presidency, I worked third shift in a steel foundry, a communist army occupied Saigon and the coldest winter in decades gripped the Twin Cities. . . .
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April 14, 2008 07:17 AM EDT --
I have been told by experts in such matters that on a golf course I am a clear and present danger to all living things as well as any inanimate object within the range of half a mile.
Much of this . . .
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June 14, 2007 11:13 PM EDT --
Finally, Minnesota summer!
I have waited months, through arctic weather and the blink called spring, for a chance to kayak the winding channels, finger islands, and sloughs of the Upper . . .
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November 19, 2007 11:06 AM EST --
" What makes some of us tightwads and others spendthrifts?”
I still don't know, but American RadioWorks explored the question in a documentary titled Design . . .
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February 11, 2008 12:02 AM EST --
My brother is looking for a house. A month ago, he handed me a picture of a beautifully restored Victorian for $850,000. He teased "Should I buy it?"
It was the house we grew up . . .
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June 09, 2008 07:36 AM EDT --
Last weekend, summer stopped by for a short visit.
I planned to greet it on the patio with a book and a beer but my wife, a zealous crusader against relaxation, insisted we go to Grand Old Days, . . .
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August 25, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
I'm on the outs with my cousin Dave.
I fed his steak to the coyote who haunts the woods where our family holds it summer barbecues. Now Dave is mad at me. He says dieting has turned . . .
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September 01, 2008 12:07 AM EDT --
I love me wife. She is my partner. She is my best friend. I rely on her for advice, support and solace, but there are times when I don't like her that much.
This may seem a paradox, but . . .
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September 22, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
Obama wants change. McCain wants change. Everyone wants change but me.
It is not so much that I am stuck in the what-is as I am deeply suspicion of the angst that drives - what-if.
The truth is . . .
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October 13, 2008 12:06 AM EDT --
My first love was my first car.
Oh, I've had crushes before but never anything close to love -- but that car, that was love.
She wasn't much to look at, just a snot-green . . .
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January 21, 2007 11:26 AM EST --
I hit two deer in three days at the same spot in the road. To be precise, I hit one, the other hit me. The first accident occurred while commuting one crisp moonless morning on a road slicked black with . . .
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April 08, 2007 01:49 PM EDT --
Sgt. Schultz pulled his squad behind a Volkswagen Beetle blocking the south bound lane of River Road. The little white car puttered at an uneasy idle, its air-cooled engine rattling a loose . . .
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May 03, 2007 06:04 PM EDT --
Critique welcome
In a canyon west of Boulder Colorado, Meg eased Allen's Volkswagen down a rutted road dogging the course of a noisy brook. The lane crossed and re-crossed the stream . . .
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