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• The Free Market

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  The employment picture is dismal.  Senior workers — the 50+ crowd — are out on the streets, unemployable, and prospects for recent college graduates, many of whom are buried under mountains of debt, are limited.  Now what? Well, the Germans have an idea: One in three university students in the [...]
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• No Lime, No Lesions

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  My dermatologist and I have an understanding.  He stops scolding me about staying out of the sun, I come in every 3 months and let him freeze off the pre-cancerous growths.  I stay black and beautiful, he bills the insurance company.  Win win. His practice sends occasional emails around on [...]
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• Home Run Killebrew

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  Harmon Killebrew, one of my all-time favorite baseball players, died today, age 74.  Forearms of  steel and a cement glove. Nice obit in the NYTimes. [...]
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• Why Lose Face When You Can Lose Your Whole Head?

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  Another tragic twist in the Tenerife beheading story: Before the attack, Deyan Valentinov Deyanov asked a store owner for a large knife because, he said, “I’m going to kill someone.” But the shopkeeper didn’t report the threat to police. Deyanov was caught on the store’s security camera gesturing with his [...]
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• Duck!

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  A Philadelphia woman who said she was molested by an employee dressed as Donald Duck while at Walt Disney World in 2008 has settled her lawsuit with the theme park company. April Magolon sued Disney for more than $50,000 … over a “ruined vacation” after a visit to the Epcot [...]
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• Ruins the Shoes, Too

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  It has become increasingly clear to me over the years that even if I wanted to be a Republican, I couldn’t afford it.  The artist makes the same point.  Via. [...]
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• Law’n'Odor

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  Friday!  It’s FRI-day!  FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-Day! So here come de crazies. Authorities in southwest Florida recently detained a woman who not only allegedly had hundreds of prescription pills in her possession, but also had two weapons hidden in two very unusual places….One of them was tucked away in an abdominal skin fold, [...]
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• Gun Control

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  This is turning into a very good month for the worldwide elimination of dangerous, obnoxious assholes. Riverside, CA  — The day before he allegedly shot his father, the sandy-haired 10-year-old boy showed off a prized possession to a visitor. It was a thin leather belt emblazoned with a silver insignia [...]
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• Art of the Squeal

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  I n yet another strange twist on the Osama bin Laden saga, Donald Trump revealed that in 2002, he had looked into buying the property in eastern Pakistan on which the Al Qaida leader’s compound had been built just a few years afterwards. “I was looking for investments, of course,” [...]
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• About Face

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  The first full face transplant recipient in the United States [pictured here on left] showed off his new look Monday alongside doctors who performed the surgery.   Video Okay, that photo is a pretty tasteless commentary on my part, so here’s a harmless (and somewhat less tasteless — somewhat) — [...]
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