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Paris: For Kids, By Kids: Awesome Candy Stand

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Paris: For Kids, By Kids. Saturday, July 20, 2013. On a scale of 1-10). This is the best candy place you could ever find. They have gummy worms about 3 feet long, twisty licorice, big puffy candy strawberries, caramelized nuts, gummy sodas, gummy eggs, gummy strawberries, marshmallow twists, candy necklaces, shorter gummy worms, and much more. If you have a sister that takes forever to decide, this is not your place. Oh and by the way please check out Luka's own blog. Click Here. To go to his blog.

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The Spectator: September 2014

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For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. I am growing weary of the use of the word fuck or variations thereof in movies and television shows. “You better not fuck with me, Mickey,” or “Watching yourfuckingself, Ray,” just two made-up quotes based on the excellent TV show Ray Donovan. I know that, I replied, but that doesn’t mean they have to use it so many times in the show. And to top it off, one of our daughters took her daughter to see the show! She told viewers: “[I] will be dedicating all of my energy t...

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The Spectator

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We Walked Right Into It: Pennsbury High and the Vietnam War. By Terry L. Nau. 242 pp. This is Terry Nau’s second book about Vietnam, the first being a personal memoir of not just his service in Vietnam, but his life before and after. He titled that one Reluctant Soldier.Proud Veteran: How a cynical Vietnam vet learned to take pride in his service to the USA. In his second book, which was inspired by his oncoming 50. As he did with his first book, this one is also self-published. As a shameless self-p...

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The Spectator: November 2014

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One for the Marines. Whenever I meet a Marine veteran, I like to tell him about my last two years in the Navy. That’s when I served on a commodore’s staff in the amphibious Navy and we would take Marines to the Mediterranean on six-month deployments and relive D-day landings at all of the important World War II sites. Sitting next to the Marine, I immediately offered to take off my jumper. The guard shook his head no. 8220;Military only,” he said. I was crestfallen. I wasn’t military. Links to this post.

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The Spectator: March 2015

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We Walked Right Into It: Pennsbury High and the Vietnam War. By Terry L. Nau. 242 pp. This is Terry Nau’s second book about Vietnam, the first being a personal memoir of not just his service in Vietnam, but his life before and after. He titled that one Reluctant Soldier.Proud Veteran: How a cynical Vietnam vet learned to take pride in his service to the USA. In his second book, which was inspired by his oncoming 50. As he did with his first book, this one is also self-published. As a shameless self-p...

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The Spectator: Rewards and Handouts

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The Armory at Penn State, since torn down. I’m not sure where I’d be today without an education, but I suspect it wouldn’t any place enviable. I probably wouldn’t even know what the word “enviable” meant, except I learned it in high school during the 1950s when a good public education was to be had by many. But the proposal is fraught with problems. As The New York Times’ story. The problem goes deeper than that. It puts the faculty member in the position of deciding who continues on the gravy train ...

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The Spectator: June 2014

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Kicked to the Curb. The double doors on the right are the ones that need to be automatic. There's another set inside that's equally difficult to handle, although they are kept open in the summer. If you have a cart, you have to back out the doors. It’s just another example of how the folks in state government, the bureaucrats as well as the elected ones, do their jobs backwards most of the time. Posted by The Spectator. Links to this post. Technology Serves Me Well. Just before I retired, I entered the d...

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The Spectator: Creative Writing?

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She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 while a reporter for the Washington Post. It turned out, the story was fiction promoted as fact. The Post returned the Pulitzer and fired Cooke, who later, according to Wikipedia, sold the movie rights for $1.6 million. In today’s headlines. We English majors like to turn a phrase and tell good stories. Facts are something to be manipulated—like digital photographs in Photoshop. Posted by The Spectator. April 6, 2015 at 4:31 PM. They were all Stephen Glass. Which isnt eve...

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The Spectator: July 2015

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A story in this morning’s Times got my linguistic juices flowing. It’s about a female Marine Corps colonel who’s being drummed out of the Corps. For, among other things, not following the chain of command. The colonel, Kate Germano (which I misread as Geronimo), improved shooting abilities and physical outcomes for female recuits. Who doesn’t want a Marine who can hit a target and carry 60 or more pounds? Posted by The Spectator. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am a freelance writer and...