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3/3/2008

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Tiger fans should be proud of team
John Bottrell [ 3 comments ]

Well, I don’t normally do this, but I’m writing this as a respectful rebuttal to Tony’s post "Eat it too."

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MY MIND IS MADE UP: Between the war hawk, the bipolar psycho, and new kid on the block... I’m going with the new kid
Dan Wrzesinski [ add feedback ]

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Behold the Pale Horse...and the rats beneath him
Lauren Roseman [ add feedback ]

I’m having a great difficulty understanding why I have having such loss so early in life. I have already lost all my immediate family, leaving myself alone to carry on. I have dealt with family mocker  [more...]

Eat it Too
Tony Bottrell [ add feedback ]

Warning----Do Not Read This If You Are a Tiger Fan.

I’m not as pumped up about the Tigers as I should be. Perhaps it’s because Baseball is the most "romantic" of the sports, and ther  [more...]

We’re Ready for Tigers to Triumph
John Bottrell [ 1 comments ]

The Detroit Tiger Grapefruit league is already underway believe it or not, and before long the snow will be gone here in Michigan and the aura of Tiger baseball will be in the air. [more...]

Why do we keep learning? x
Richard Frea [ add feedback ]

Sometimes I think "What good is it going to do me to keep studying and learning the way I do?"[more...]

xAmerica will survive x
Richard Frea [ add feedback ]

I’ve had people tell me that when they read political commentary they disagree with, stuff they think is "totally obsurd," they start shaking in their tracks and their heart starts to race. [more...]

Debating in the arena of ideas
Richard Frea [ 3 comments ]

We do a lot of debating by our comments on this website, so I thought I’d do some research on debating. I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t have much experience debating other than among  [more...]

Early Departure
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This might appear to be one strange and morbid article, but I was thinking today about people in my lifetime, and in America’s short lifetime, that past away much too soon, just before or in  [more...]

No more radicals
Dan Wrzesinski [ 5 comments ]

So Bush vetoes a health care bill for millions of children, and everyone is furious. Myself included. But at this point, is anyone really surprised?

Disgusted, yes. Surprised, no.

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End of an era
John Bottrell [ add feedback ]

An era at ItWillFail has ended with the resignation of the websites "most creative writer to say the least," according to an anonymous source for the creative writing website.

The source con  [more...]

The slippery slope (x)
Richard Frea [ add feedback ]

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“I will not vote for Guliani no matter what,” a friend of mine said, and I rolled my eyes.

“Why not,” I said.

“Because he’s pro-choice.”

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xBad leadership in Michigan x
Richard Frea [ add feedback ]

Oh boy. Something is wrong with the Michigan economy, and democrats and a few republicans in that state have just made matters worse.

During the .com bubble of the 1990s states, like Michiga  [more...]

cxWisdom from the Ages
John Bottrell [ add feedback ]

I remember sitting around one afternoon with my grandma looking at family trees, and her pointing to various people on the tree reciting a maxim that person used.

I wish I would have paid be  [more...]

cLearning from old wisdom
John Bottrell [ add feedback ]

Very few people had the ability to write, let alone get a proper education 2,000 years ago, and this resulted on many sayings becoming lost to the ages.

This, to me, makes the writings of Ep  [more...]

xHealthcare #2: Learning a lesson from Canada
Richard Frea [ add feedback ]

If we are smart, we will not only learn from history, but from the failures of others.

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xHealthcare #1: How to make my healthcare worse
Richard Frea [ add feedback ]

It is estimated that 40 million people in the U.S. do not have healthcare. The majority of these are the poor.

Therefore, some people propose that we go to a nationalized healthcare system,  [more...]

cRonald McDonald’s Teacher
John Bottrell [ add feedback ]

It was 1977 and I was seven, and there was a blizzard so bad school was cancelled the entire week before, so my hopes were high the streak would continue. Would it work for church too?

“It’s  [more...]

cThe American Pastime is Baseball
John Bottrell [ add feedback ]

Baseball and Football and great weather are in the air. What more can a man ask for?

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cOld Philosophy Still Rings True
John Bottrell [ add feedback ]

Every generation has it’s own “good old days.

Henry Ford’s mother used to repeat many maxims to her son, one went something like, “Work comes before play.”

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