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Someone asked Wesley if he missed the “Great White North”. Unfortunately for them, Wesley has been sick and tired of being sick and tired, so he gave them the truth. Which spells out “ouch” for the 603 love.

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“Sometimes” is a poem to the times when the shadows of life’s clouds passes over the grassy knoll.

Last lesson, I promised you a lesson on “The Philosophy of Money” with a return of Bob. Fortunately, I’m the teacher, so I can break my promises willy nilly and there’s nothing you can do about it. Due to events in the news, I’ve changed my mind. You see (someone cue some Richard Wagner) we’re passing an important milestone on the Road to Serfdom as we speak.

In the Appendix to the third addition of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”, Thomas adds some closing words to the argument for Independence.

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In California and despite the current financial crisis, Community College tuition is still kept at a low 20 dollars per credit. As Wesley appears to have nothing better to do, he went down to a place by the beach and has set out to earn his degree in Sociology. He recounts his first day on campus and looking for a kegger.

We in the West have spent the past two centuries benefiting from [Miss Market's] many skills – she in her innovative, brilliant, economic-freedom-loving glory has given us everything from Air Conditioning to Zouave rifles. Unfortunately, we have become a society of narcissists from the top down, and when you pair an otherwise independent woman with a narcissistic control freak, one of two things happen: she is broken, or she gets revenge.

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“Seatless on Willoughby” is a work of Beat Fiction. Stranded and abandoned on the corner of Spaulding and Willoughby, Wesley finds a weather beaten bike chained to a street light and asks who is more broken.

In this edition of our grammar tutorial “The Politics of Words”, we explore the Chameleon like Comma, who is a tricky bit of punctuation. Yet with an understanding of grammar’s rules and dash of karma, we can start to use the comma like a pro.

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In “Of the Present Ability of America: with some Miscellaneous Reflections”, the final section of “Common Sense”, Thomas Paine further explores the reasons and motivations for America to stand against British rule. As Alistar Butcher continues to presents the Zine that started it all, Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”

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Blaming the Market for a depression is like blaming the Weather for a tornado. Duh. It’s obvious to blame the weather. But what the hell kind of good does blaming the weather do? You can’t change the weather, you can’t control it, so cussing out the weather a waste of time and energy and resources.

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Write an Entire Story Contest
Guidelines

Deadline: April 30th, 2009

Length 5,000 to 10,000 words

Concept Blank punk genera. Modern Day Pulp Fiction, Pirates, Internet Pirates, Dystopian, Zombies, Jesus coming back as mutated sheep because the devil foiled the cloning process and he had to come back early. Now Jesus has to work on his crusade in the body of a mutated, were-sheep, who can raise the dead. O.K. Not that last one, we are keeping that one.

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