Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks My rating: 4 of 5 stars Gosh, there's so much to say about this book, I hardly know where to begin! I turned over so many pages to go back and see citations or quotes that I can't possibly list a fourth of them …
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Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Pittsburgh Penguins - Recap - November 27, 2013 - ESPN. A great come from behind win, and much needed, for the Penguins!
I'm the poetry editor for Ray's Road Review and I've been a professional poet for about 25 years. Over time, you learn -- or should learn -- various magazine submission rules, but lately some of the people submitting to RRR have been so boneheaded, I thought I'd mention a few here. First, read the submission …
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Ramones by Jim Bessman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Let me begin by saying I've liked the Ramones for a very long time. Since roughly 1980. And while I've enjoyed their music, I never thought they were musical geniuses or lyrical geniuses the way Lennon and McCartney were or even Trent Reznor. It was …
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I know, I know, I haven't actually blogged here in a long time. It's been mostly book reviews. But that's what you people like, right? So anyway, this week was the 14 week anniversary of my dad's death. And I finished up a grief support group I had been in for eight weeks. I'm not …
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