Category: Opinions/Editorials
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Support An A-T Marathoner For The Chicago Marathon
The following comes from my brother-in-law, Chad Schultz: Friends and Family, Join me in supporting the A-T Children’s Project by sponsoring me in my marathon efforts. I am raising money for a cure or life-improving therapies for a rare genetic disease called ataxia-telangiectasia, or A-T for short. Visit my fundraising page, and please pass…
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Where We Were When The Towers Fell
Note: Originally Published 9-11-06 Five years ago on this day I was teaching at East Gaston High School in North Carolina, just outside Charlotte. I was 24 years old at that time. We taught on something called the block schedule, which, in our case, meant I had four 90 minute periods a day, one of…
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When You’re Cool Like Me
Note: Originally Posted 7-14-06 When you’re cool like me, you’ve got this insatiable urge to write a review on every book you read. I don’t know if it’s because book reports were my strongest subject during my formative years or what, but I’ve just got to do it. It’s like Dracula and blood, Tommy Lee…
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The Inexplicableness Of My Movie Predilections
Note: Originally Published 7-23-06 I like to post reviews of movies I’ve watched. I do it because I want to help you. I know you enter the local movie rental place and pace for hours upon hours, searching for that perfect movie. Your time is far too valuable for that. That’s where I come in. …
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And You Call Yourself A Planet …
Note: Originally Posted 8-24-06 In an amazing and historical event, 424 astronomers (which is less than five percent of the global astronomer community) voted Pluto out of its esteemed title of “Pluto: Planet.” Now Pluto is embarrassed to have to introduce himself as “Pluto: Dwarf Planet.” Come on guys, Pluto knew he was the teeniest…
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