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by David Lacy “God damn my wasted time, ringing all the bells… I’ve got half a mind to lie to you, half a mind to tell you, everything I have to tell, to tell, to tell.” – Chris Pureka, “31 and Falling” It all clicked...
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by Kelvin Wade Rocker Jon Bon Jovi recently blasted Apple CEO Steve Jobs in an interview in Sunday Times magazine saying Jobs “is personally responsible for killing the music business” through iTunes and iPods. Bon Jovi reminisces of the days of his youth when he’d...
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by Theresa Reichman I love fireflies. Or, as I always called them as a child, “lightning bugs.” Like any good Pennsylvanian girl, I can clearly recall my first time catching them. I was young. Probably around 4 years old. I sprinted barefoot through my yard,...
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by Donald K. Sanders I have been brought low by recent world events. It is about as low as I have ever been. It’s hard to explain but I can only equate it to a whirlpool that you are caught in and cannot escape. The...
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by Sivan Butler-Rotholz I am having a crisis of faith. I am not a religious person, I’m more of a spiritual one. (Don’t you love it when people say that?!) I believe that there is some guiding force, be it fate or nature or what...
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by David Weinshilboum To say I’m not a fan of springing forward is akin to saying that Charlie Sheen is not fond of sobriety. I abhor daylight saving time; Hate it with a capital “H.” I’m fully aware that many people love this little invention....
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by David Lacy When I moved to Orange County nearly five years ago I essentially traded my suburban Northern Californian experience for a suburban southern Californian one. In 2006, I moved from a college suburb with swaths of tract neighborhoods (can you say Wildhorse? Mace...
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by Kelvin Wade Last Monday the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Stolen Valor Act was an unconstitutional intrusion on free speech. The Stolen Valor Act was a law that, among other things, made it a federal crime to falsely claim a military...
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by Donald K. Sanders “Those that are wise among men, and search for the reason of things, are those that bring the most sorrow upon themselves.” ~ Euripides I love my wife. At the same time, it troubles me that she loves me. I never...
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