I was fortunate to be selected as a Community Columnist for my local newspaper. I thought I would share with you my first column for today’s paper.
Do we teach our children the right life lessons?
By Robert Freedland
As our children have grown, it has been a tradition in our family for us to read them books [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Just took the pumpkin pie out of the oven and boy does it smell yummy. Got the cornish game hen (x4) all roasted, last night and I’ll heat up the rest around lunchtime.
It’ll be a laid back Thanksgiving at Chez Dizzy and in that spirit I decided to make my Ten Post Round-Up a [...]
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Yeah…just a little moody, today. One week from now, my loved one, thanks to GWB, will be in Kuwait, on his way to his third tour in Iraq. The only thing helping me keep it together is my regular morning cuppa and keeping tabs on my RSS reader.
I’m not posting my round-up, so much because [...]
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Thank The Flying Spaghetti Monster It’s Friday!
Got the blues, today? Feeling like it’s going to be hours before you can escape the office for Happy Hour? Last night’s Democratic Presidential Debate got you down?
Well, I’ve got the cure for your blues! No, really. I’ve got The Cure, RIGHT HERE! I promise you, for at least [...]
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Look at that: I survived a gloomy Monday. I am in a less somber mood, today, a beautiful, sunshiny, Tuesday.
I’m in such a good mood, I am offering you this Post Round-Up for free! If you call RIGHT NOW, you will get 9 more posts for free. That’s Ten unique posts for [...]
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In keeping with Dizzy’s “somber Saturday” theme below, comes word that one of the last great literary lions of the 20th century has died.
“Norman Mailer, the combative, controversial and often outspoken novelist who loomed over American letters longer and larger than any writer of his generation, died today in Manhattan. He was 84.
“He died of [...]
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Is there any area of our government, over the span of the last seven years, any area, in domestic or foreign policy, national defense, public welfare, the economy, name it, where the average, reasonably informed American might point to success, to signs of progress, of improvement, something, anything, to point to with satisfaction, with pride?
Yesterday [...]
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I wasn’t sure I would make it, today! I’m just getting over my annual post-trick-or-treat sugar rush, I am finally up and at ‘em on this frosty Thursday morning.
I am proud to say that I finally got the candy to trick-or-treaters ratio “just right”, this year. We started with a large tote box full and [...]
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So many posts, so little time.
Without further ado…
From Brilliant at Breakfast.
* If parents didn’t buy these, there’d be no need to offer them:
I’m not saying that kids should be forbidden to have any allure until they’re in their 20’s, nor am I saying that a little bit of dress-up is always inappropriate. I went to [...]
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Let me start by saying thanks to Pamela and Donnie for inviting me to blog on The Democratic Daily!
Baby and how!
UFOs in Colorado? Saved by a violin? Poor people wiser than their middle-class counterparts? Republi-pundits freaking out?
A lot of freaky stuff, just in time for Halloween!
So hold out your trick or treat bag and [...]
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E&P has the transcript (from Media Matters) of Ann Coulter on CNBC’s Donny Deutsch’s “The Big Idea” this past Monday night. Coulter created quite a stir, which she is of course known for, when she ”suggested that the U.S. would be a better place if there weren’t any Jewish people and that they needed to “perfect” [...]
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His High Holiness, the Dalai Lama will be in Washington, D.C. next week to receive the United States’ highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal.
Advocates close to the exiled Tibetan spiritual and political leader say the award, which will be presented next Wednesday in the Capitol Rotunda, is the most significant tribute to the Dalai Lama [...]
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