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Monday, May 5, 2003

My pet peeves (while I have time to write)

If there is one pet peeve I have - one major pet peeve, as a matter of fact - it's this. I'll use an example on a tape set I recently got in the mail to illustrate my point. A business philosopher named Jim Rohn tells of a man who was very high-energy under ordinary circumstances. He was, in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 3, 2003

One Minute Millionaire (for those without the ability to read Epinions.com)

Readers may be familiar with the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Mark Victor Hansen, one of the co-authors of that series, collaborated on One Minute Millionaire with Robert G. Allen ( Multiple Streams of Income, Creating Wealth, Nothing Down ). I may have written about this book in an earlier... Sign in to see full entry.

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Condoms in prom gift baskets

A couple of years ago, I remember writing something for Written By Me about a young woman - maybe about my daughter's age - who was in charge of putting together gift baskets for her school's senior prom. Fully cognizant of what many young men were thinking about Prom Night itself, she decided to... Sign in to see full entry.

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First Saturday in May

OK, for most of you, this is one of those days that's easy to blow off, but believe me, if you have anyone in the family that's even minimally into horses, you know that the Run for the Roses is run today - in Louisville, Kentucky, no less. The Derby used to be a standard feature of my childhood,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 2, 2003

OK, since the posts are churning, here goes.

When I say "churning," what I mean is that people are posting like crazy. This seems to be one of the biggest times of day for you guys to get active - meaning that those of us who want to earn some serious money here have no choice but to continue to post, post, post every five minutes so we can... Sign in to see full entry.

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The Limits of Free Speech: Exploring the Hit Man Case

Many of you might remember a civil case several years ago, in which the family of several related murder victims sued the publisher of a book called Hit Man (for short), an instruction manual instructing readers on the most effective methods to kill someone for hire. (I apologize for having to say... Sign in to see full entry.

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On The Lighter Side - brought to you by Kimberly Clark

May 2, 2003 05:20 ET Got Common Sense? Scott(R) Wants You! Nationwide Search For First 'Chief Common Sense Officer' NEENAH, Wis., May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Humorist Will Rogers declared "common sense ain't so common." But SCOTT(R) Tissue and Towels, mindful that parents are masters of common sense, has... Sign in to see full entry.

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The Iraqi PR minister has a beat and you can dance to him!

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2673222&src=eDialog/GetContent That's the Reuters link to a story about a DJ's interest in making some of Mohammed Saeed al-Sharaf's more memorable lines danceable as well. Perhaps even singable! It's a worthy end, in my opinion,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Man cleared of molestation charge re-arrested - after getting $480K

Here's the link to the story from Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2673167&src=eDialog/GetContent It's one of those stories that makes you wonder whether to laugh or cry. Just read it - and if the spirit moves, write a blog of your own about it as your... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Life or something like it

Frankly, it's been a fairly dull week so far, which means that I have had little or nothing to write about. I will be doing some other things over the next week or two, so I might not post as often as I would like, either. Garfield promises, however, that she will have regular field notes to enter... Sign in to see full entry.

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