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THE PLEASURES OF BACKYARD TOURISM (travel series)

Posted in Series, tagged , , , on February 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Springfield, Illinois, is a tourist Mecca. There’s just that certain je ne sais quoi about a dead president that makes people flock to the schlock erected in his memory. Thanks to state and federal funds from the boom times of the bipolar economy we find ourselves in, Springfield now boasts a presidential museum and library, [...]

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MAO’S FACE ON OBAMA’S BALL: New Old News Feed (December 28, 2009)

Posted in News, tagged , , , , on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I asked for a football, but instead I got this missing child they just found on Christmas day. Cool, I guess… “It is rare in stranger abduction cases [that] so much time can pass without a tragic ending. This was truly a Christmas miracle.” A miracle? Jesus walked on water, healed the blind with dirt [...]

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