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Greece has found some short term financing.
The break will come in several weeks.
There will be plenty of time to loose money in the interim.

A Gay Chick-fil-A Employee Speaks Out
A gay employee, writing anonymously over fears she’d be fired for speaking out, says she hopes her customers don’t choke on their nuggets—but one day will swallow their words.
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This is a story about Bible belt believers and mob rule.
I have not yet found a fix for the condition in bulk.
Individuals can be educated.
The group fights defection to independent thought.

http://www.gocomics.com/janesworld/2012/08/04

You are just going to have to look at the strip at gocomics.

Gore Vidal: Don’t believe the rosy obituaries—he was a racist and an elitist.
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum: Of the dead say nothing unless it is kind. This is a good rule of thumb. Despite the temptation, it would be mean-spirited to object to the barrage of shallow Facebook…
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I never paid attention to Gore Vidal.

I expect he was much in favor of a verbal joust. 
He would take any position counter to his potential opponent
as a good debater must. 
Some positions are much more defensible than others.
Ignore this hatchet job.  The man is dead.

I enjoy considering alternatives. 
I like to pick my fights.
Sometimes the view held by others is true.

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I found a text version at the CSM.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0726/Columbine-author-Dave-Cullen-examines-the-Aurora-tragedy

His point seems to be that often the best "human interest" story is none.

I have little interest in reviewing old wars. 

Things are as they stand.  

New and different adventures await us.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.


More, please.
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