There’s a bit of a controversy going on in Baghdad concerning the building of a wall. The walls are going up between the Iraqi capital’s neighborhoods – what some journalists have apparently come to call “blast walls.”
Answering criticism that the wall is a “sectarian or racist wall,” the Iraqi prime minister was apparently quoted as saying:
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I spent nearly all day in a wretched state of exhaustion. Naturally I’m wide awake at a quarter to midnight. Personally, I’d like to blame it all on Brian Stokes. James Shields pitches eight innings, allows two runs, strikes out TWELVE, and leaves the Rays with a two run lead going into the ninth. Naturally, the Rays lost by two (six to four) after allowing four runs in the top of the…
The more I learn about my unconfirmed disease, the more I think I may have been sick for some time. I’ve been really tired for a long time, and sick quite a bit… both signs of the suspected flavor of Leukemia floating around in my blood. In a sick kind of way, it’s a kind of vindication. All of those times I told Cheryl she had no idea how tired I was… all those times she…
Have you ever known a child to enjoy washing his or her hands too much? I’m not a regular on the parenting circuit so I can’t claim to be an expert; but I can tell you it’s a 50/50 proposition in our modest household. Our daughter exhibits many of the signs of phobia. She has little time for cleaning, and little use for clean hands. I didn’t think much of this… I…
Have you had one of those moments in your life when you felt you had rounded a corner, and you suspected you’d never see the other side again? I saw my doctor this week – Wednesday in fact – and she told me she thought I might have Leukemia.
“But my cholesterol is o.k., right?”
I was in to discuss the results of a routine blood test – part of my routine…
There are a couple different shades of meaning to the word “exploit,” but when you say it angrily, you rarely mean it in a good way.
As the dictionary might say:
Use (a situation or person) in an unfair or selfish way.
The “e” word has been tossed around today in connection with calls for tighter restrictions on handguns; and to be honest, I wasn’t crazy about the…