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Dad Takes Care of the Radio Problem
Thursday, August 21, 2014
(SNN) - Once upon a time people listened to radios. The heart of the radio itself was a forest of diode vacuum tubes, later replaced with transistors. The tubes burned out with the rapidity of light bulbs and ...
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Phone Call to a Friend
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
(SNN) - Yesterday I made a phone call that I did not want to make. I was afraid to make, actually. Afraid I would screw it up. I tried to talk myself out of it, in fact. But as a man of some conscience, that was ...
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Rodger's Killing Spree: Misogyny and Entitlement
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
(SNN) - I once worked as an Employee Assistance person at a State run institution for developmentally disabled individuals where an employee complained, with righteous indignation, "They won't let me abuse the ...
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In The Absence of Humanity
Thursday, March 20, 2014
(SNN) - I once helped a friend pack for a move only to find out, as she was leaving her apartment with the last load, that she had put her declawed cat outside and had no intention of coming back for her. What lessons ...
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MST Survivors Vs Senate: It's Not Over Yet.
Friday, March 07, 2014
(SNN) - Senator Gillibrand's military sexual assault bill entitled the Military Justice Improvement Act (#MJIA), supported by a majority of survivors of Military Sexual Trauma (#MST), was blocked procedurally yesterday ...
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Dunn Case Not So Done Deal.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
(SNN) - Controversy arose this week over the Michael Dunn case, often referred to as the "Florida loud music killing case." Briefly, Dunn, a White male, parked next to an SUV in which some Black teenagers sat listening ...
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Fat Chance!
Thursday, January 09, 2014
(SNN) - In our society the only thing worse than a middle-aged woman is a fat middle-aged woman. No one cares how she got that way, what medical issues (or medicines) played a part, or the fact that everyone's metabolism ...
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"Pass the MJIA"
Friday, November 29, 2013
(SNN) - In the USA thousands of military men and women are waiting for Congress to reconvene in December and, hopefully, pass the Military Justice Improvement Act of 2013 (MJIA). What the MJIA is designed to do ...
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Target Acquired! F-Bombs Away
Sunday, September 08, 2013
(SNN) - So, this is what its come to. While hundreds of families around Alberta struggle to get their lives back together after the June flooding, the partisan feuding between our government and our official opposition ...