Eric Back on January 12th, 2007

Here is the link, read for yourself: ”Virgin Mary Seen in a Texas, Grocery Store Freezer.”

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Eric Back on January 9th, 2007

Hmmm
If all the ”Nigerian” email scams were laid end to end how far would they reach? One could only speculate as all of us with an email address have received at least a dozen of these. The amazing thing to me is that there seems to be little real innovation in these spam [...]

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Eric Back on January 1st, 2007

A rather dry spin on ”Swedish Lessons.”

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Eric Back on December 26th, 2006

Since 1998 there have been at least eight major pipeline blasts in Nigeria, many of them due to nationals breaking the lines open in order to obtain fuel.
This time more than 200 people have been killed in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, the Red Cross says though they caution that officials are still counting bodies. They [...]

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Eric Back on December 22nd, 2006

Ian Hunter of Mott the Hoople fame sang, ”My brother’s back at home with his Beatles and his Stones/We never got it off on that revolution stuff..” Well, maybe he got off on Herman’s Hermits instead. Selling over 60 million records, the Hermits, headed by Peter Noone, dominated the airwaves with such classics as ”I’m [...]

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Eric Back on November 27th, 2006

On the anniversary of the death of John Lennon, Yoko, his widow, continues to call for peace. She says, ”Every year, let’s make December 8th the day to ask for forgiveness from those who suffered the insufferable.” In the full page, New York Times add she also urges readers to take responsibility for failing to [...]

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Eric Back on June 7th, 2006

A bill to increase FCC, indecency fines by a multiple of 10 from a maximum of $32,500 to a maximum of $325,000 per incident has passed the house today. All that remains is for the president to sign off. The bill will not apply to satellite or cable broadcasts which are not [...]

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Eric Back on May 7th, 2006

In an article entitled ”The Baby Boomer Heart: The Riskiest Generation” I read another awe filled statement about aging baby boomers, ”And, as hard as it is to believe, the generation that coined the phrase ”Never trust anyone over 30″ is now rapidly approaching 50 – or even 60!” Having read this blithe sort [...]

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Eric Back on May 6th, 2006

Isn’t the internet great? As a forum for any hobby, special interest, or vocation imaginable, it’s limited only by willing writers and free space on servers. I think almost any interest is reflected somewhere in the global tangle of URLs and nameservers and ISPs. This is both good and bad as in [...]

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Eric Back on March 12th, 2006

St. Patrick’s day is closing in quickly! If you haven’t yet purchased your greeting cards, gifts and celebratory paraphernalia, maybe you don’t need to. The day honors the memory of the captured Scot who spent six years in slavery before fleeing abroad for religious training, afterwhich he became instrumental in the conversion [...]

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