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✍ WAR IS THEFT “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”...
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✍ TODAY’S QUOTE “… Tammy Faye calls me and Ron Jeremy calls me. Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.” — reality show mannequin Trishelle Cannatella, testifying that even celebrity...
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✍ TODAY’S QUOTE “The clock talked loud. I threw it away. It scared me what it talked.” — Tillie Olsen ♢ TEMPUS FUGIT It was a wild ride around the sun this time, no? Don’t unbuckle your seatbelt just...
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TODAY’S QUOTE “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” — Queen Gertrude in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet“ Hamlet And His Mom (They’ve Got Nothing On Rick Santorum) ♢ RICK SANTORUM’S PROBLEM So, now...
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✍ TODAY’S QUOTE “Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.” — Eugene McCarthy ♢ SMALL TOWN HEARTS...
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✍ TODAY’S QUOTE “Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and...
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✍ THE QUOTE “Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they’ve stolen.” — Mort Sahl ♢ DUH, GOLLY GEE, I DUNNO! The day before yet another Republican...
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✍ THE QUOTE “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion.” — Democritus. ♢ THE BIG 10′S BIG STORY Herald Times sportswriter Andy Graham stopped in to the Book Corner...
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✍ THE QUOTE “Toys of fate; it’s kismet!” — Curly Howard ♢ THIS OLD, ELECTRON-STAINED WRETCH How long do you think it’ll be before local papers like the Indy Star and the Herald Times cease coming out,...
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✍ THE QUOTE “Of course I’ve got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons. I’ve got ‘em because everyone else has. But as soon as you use them, they screw everything up.” — Danny DeVito ▲ UNFORGIVEN? How...
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We’re Rich! So, the Dow and the S&P 500 yesterday both closed with the highest numbers in their separate histories. The Dow hit 16,695.47 and the S&P topped out at 1896.65. CNN Money offers...
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Blue Skies Ahead Just wondering: Can it be any more perfect in Bloomington this morning? ■ The sky is a rich, deep blue and cloudless. The high should be near 70. The next two days should be clear and...
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Scientists: Come Out Of The Closet! Hey, kids, I realize we live in the most informed, brilliant, and sensitive burgh this side of Berkeley, California, but still some of us might come up against a...
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Help Wanted So, the city’s hiring a bean counter to handle the 2015 upcoming budget. Acc’d’g to today’s Herald Times [paywall], Mayor Mark Kruzan et al have tabbed the Crowe Horvath accounting firm to...
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Let There Be Light Hallelujah! Winter solstice zips in tonight at 11:49pm in the Eastern Time Zone of the United States. Winter Solstice Sequence [Image: Danilo Pivato] ● The days, after that moment,...
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