A strange thing: Two mornings in a row now, I've awakened from the same weirdly frustrating dream. I'm back in college. Since I've been given a second chance, I've decided I'm going to make the best of my college career; really bust...

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I recall with particular vividness an episode from my childhood -- my first critical pronunciation, I do believe. Seated on a stone wall in the courtyard of my school, I declared the following words to a coterie of my friends, who hadn't really asked.

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I thought Obama and Biden's visit to a Rosslyn burger joint yesterday was hilarious. Not for any ironic or underhanded reasons, but simply because the event on videotape is just...funny. Obama's slightly stilted and very polite demeanor while...

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Sometimes life just gets weirder than you can handle. One thing you discover when you start a blog is that what you type goes straight from your keyboard to Google's ears -- frequently overnight. I have to keep this post as circumspect as I possibly..

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Driving Betty to work this morning, we passed this sign on the Clara Barton Parkway: "Leave Nothing of Value".... Well! I know the economy's in the crapper, but this is laying on a bit thick. Easy enough to comply with, at any rate -- as...

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