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So As To Provide For
Few things are as unsettling as those last few minutes of casting your vote. You’ve selected your principal candidates, perhaps a judge here and there, and now you’re face-to-typeface with a sea of legalese. You knew they’d be there, but you just didn’t find the time to do the research. Now you have to make…
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A Carol For Spring
Sing it with me now … It’s the most, horrible time of the year! With co-workers all sneezing, And everyone wheezing, “My eyesight’s not clear!” It’s the most, horrible time of the year! It’s the crap-crapiest season of all, With prescription refillings and insurance billings, Oh, how I wish it were fall! It’s the crap-crapiest…
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Water Snitchery
Had to play the snitch this weekend. We were heading west on 120, Marietta Highway, and our reaction to what we saw was immediate and unanimous. The instant the three of us — Nikki was driving, Alyssa was along as well — saw a row of sprinklers blasting full on at the shopping center where…
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Smoke
It could be worse. We could be living in Waycross, where the forecast calls for smoke, smoke and smoke. Up here in Atlanta, we just get the leftovers. This is the kind of thing that I shouldn’t let myself ponder for long, because it is big and so far beyond what I can control. We…