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Newsbriefs You May Have Missed: Closing the Invasion Routes.

Posted on March 26, 2011 by stevieslaw

20. Jim DeMint declares Interstate Highway System Unconstitutional. McClatchy Newspaper reporter, James Rosen, in an article in Thursday’s CDT, used the example of the invention by Dr. David Cull of a valve system for dialysis to highlight the politic wrangling … Continue reading →

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StevieslawCulturalUpdate: Times Twitter

Posted on March 25, 2011 by stevieslaw

StevieslawCulturalUpdate: Times Twitter In last Sunday’s NY Times, Week in Review section, Randy Kennedy wrote of Tweet Lit.  He spoke of “Twitterature,” a  book of 80 works of Western literature boiled down into Twitter messages, Science Fiction and Mystery work … Continue reading →

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StevieslawExclusive: The Little Known Index of Intervention.

Posted on March 25, 2011 by stevieslaw

Smokey Diamond was in the Mediterranean this week, just north of Tripoli,  aboard the U.S.S. Cutty Shark—a super secret missile launching frigate. The frigate had spent some fifteen minutes launching 100 cruise missiles at a cost of roughly 1.5 million … Continue reading →

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Newbriefs You May Have Missed: 18. Who will look after the big guy?

Posted on March 17, 2011 by stevieslaw

Republicans articulate anthem. Find voice. House Republicans assailed the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, designed to protect consumers from problems with mortgage, credit card and other lending companies, calling it the “most powerful agency that’s ever been created in Washington.”  … Continue reading →

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The Old Stone Steps

Posted on March 17, 2011 by stevieslaw

The Old Stone Steps The grass covered path to the stream runs along the edge of an old growth of hemlock trees, deep, dark green and fragrant. The trees hug the rising ridge and provide screen for the spur of … Continue reading →

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AStevieslawRetraction: Fox News

Posted on March 16, 2011 by stevieslaw

Lighthearted Fox scores points. When we are wrong, we admit it—so here goes.  Smokey Diamond and the editorial staff at Stevieslaw fell for a Fox News exclusive, as reported to us by Sterling Fibber, about a format change at Fox … Continue reading →

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StevieslawEntertainmentNews: Fox News to Revamp Format

Posted on March 15, 2011 by stevieslaw

Fox News plans three new “fair and balanced” sitcoms. In an effort to “balance out” commercial network sitcoms that portray blacks, latinos, gays, women and other minorities as people, Fox News today announced it is revamping its format to be … Continue reading →

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Newsbriefs You May Have Missed: 17. Fox to Watch Hen House

Posted on March 14, 2011 by stevieslaw

Corbett says JOBS and Republicans Go Wild. Lustagarten, Kusnetz and Sapien, writers for Propublica, report in an article in today’s Centre Daily Times that Tom Corbett, Governor of Pennsylvania and man of the people, has provided C. Alan Walker (who … Continue reading →

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At Charon’s Beachhouse

Posted on March 13, 2011 by stevieslaw

At Charon’s Beachhouse*             Kaddish I knew it all by then I thought. My I-ness had been inspected. I had down pat the sacred handshake and the secret chant. Freudian, Jungian, Reikian, hey. Couched for an hour bibbabbling away.   … Continue reading →

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Stevieslawrecalls: Rememoiring

Posted on March 12, 2011 by stevieslaw

Rememoiring I stopped at Barnes and Noble on the Benner Pike the other day.  Have you been there recently? They’ve pushed the Nook counter right up against the entrance, so you cannot get through without an encounter with three armed … Continue reading →

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