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Essays
Paean
This royal shape of kings, this scepter'd trunk, This bodiment of majesty, this form of Mars, This other ecstasy, demi-delight, This figure built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand…
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Hey dude,
like I was totally waiting for you.
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Convergent Evolution
It's great when things say what they are.
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Burn
The wind blows, clouds flow, rain falls, sunshine, moonlight, wind, rain, hot, cold.
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InfiniDinoPro™!
Dear Bob Dude -- Thank you so much for your fantasticInfinite Dinosaurs Program ™!
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A Few Observations
Beautiful: because caprice is delightful, and meaning is invented, and because butterfly wings do not cause chaos; ...
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A Brief Bio of FW
Across countless millennia, mere men have admired, nay, revered FW to the fullest extent that the human heart is capable.
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Kiai!
This one is laughable, several times.
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Economics According Two Cows
Versions of this have been around for 80 years.
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Do you...
suppose you should buy this book: "Correctly English in 100 Days(Shanghai Correctly English Society, 1934)"?
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Wax Man
No, this time he's just gone too far.
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Ever Faithful
United States Marine Corps Corporal Jason Dunham died April 22, 2004, of wounds sustained April 14 from an ambush in the Iraqi town of Karabilah.
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A Few Non-participants in the CrossFit Ethos
Emperor Nero Germanicus, Roman Emperor (54-68 AD) Vlad III, akaDracula, Prince of Wallachia and Impaler, 1431-1376 Donatien Alphonse François, author and Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814 Oscar Wilde, poet…
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Live the Difference
Just a little instant info on male/female brain differences.
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The Age of Aquarius
The fish have been in the news lately.
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★ Featured Essays
Jack LaLanne
Died, January 23, 2011, age 96.
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Still Crazy
President Garfield was killed by Charles Julius Guiteau, who wanted to be made ambassador to Paris.
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Incurring Debt
Bob Dude sent FW an email, asking that it be posted, with the above title.
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The Memory of Roses
George Will has written in achingly poignant prose about the long decline of his aged mother into the oblivion of dementia and the final release of death.
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Tisquantum
That's "Squanto's" real name, in Algonquian.
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Letting Off Some Steam
Counterintuitive ain't the half of it.
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Marketing
Are you sad? \— \— Distres sed?
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Unforgiven
Deserves got nothing to do with it.
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A Product Review
I made the mistake of going to the so-called "Infinite Dinosaurs Total Fitness Personal Training Boutique" for about three times.
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Bob's Photo Album
Bob is a bodybuilder.
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Strength through Joy
This is the original sketch for the KdF-Wagen — Kraft durch Freude.
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Bob's Abs
If we could read minds, what, what indeed might we discover?
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Blink
Monsieur le Docteur Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent that instrument which bears his name.
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Poto and Cabengo
Isn't it hard? Isn't it hard, being human?
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