Background: In my recent blog post It's Time for Prince Fielder to Forgive Cecil Fielder, His Father, I discussed former baseball star Cecil Fielder's divorce, and his estrangement from his son, 2007 All-Star first baseman Prince Fielder.
Cecil Fielder (pictured) earned $47 million during his career, and he and his ex-wife Stacey Fielder had two...
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Domestic violence is a serious problem faced by men, women, and children. However, laws are only designed to confer legal protection to female victims of violence, ignoring violence against men and children. In addition, these laws often violate the civil rights of men, children and even fellow women. Section 498A of the Indian Penal...
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Today this item came in over the wire. I laughed my ass off and got such a kick out of it, I just had to repost it here. Borrowed from here: http://www.siliconglen.com/jokes/tandemstory.html Received from an English Professor: You know that book Men are from Mars, Women from Venus? Well, here’s a prime example of...
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Milwaukee Brewers star first baseman Prince Fielder, 23, will start in the All-Star game tonight, and is leading the National League in homeruns. There are inevitable comparisons between Prince Fielder and his father Cecil (both pictured), who led the majors in RBI three seasons in a row for the Detroit Tigers during the 1990s....
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Yesterday, my 4-year-old son and I were at the supermarket. There was a large and colorful display for Jelly Belly jelly beans, with all sorts of varieties and flavors. He asked for “the red one,” and I put up a bag to the container and pulled the lever. Several jelly beans fell into the...
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In the movie John Tucker Must Die, three high school girls are being two-timed (three-timed?) by the school's basketball star. The three, including Beth (played by Sophia Bush, pictured), decide to get their revenge on Tucker by trying to humiliate him.
Tucker is clever, though, and a smooth operator, and he always seems to land on...
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We hear much today about the American dream. By “the American dream,” most people mean buying a big house, driving an expensive automobile, and making a lot of money. However, this was not the dream envisioned by the Founding Fathers. Remember that, for the most part, America’s founders gave up their material wealth and...
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I’ve always had a big problem with the idea of “carbon credits,” having always thought of carbon offsets as being about as logical as “murder offsets” (i.e. a homicide is justified as long as the killer offsets the death by impregnating another person).
Apparently, the people at CarbonCreditKillers.com think carbon credits are simply a rich...
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NASA technicians are beginning final launch preparations on the Phoenix Mars Lander spacecraft destined for the planet Mars. The unmanned spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Florida’s east coast on August 3, at around 5:35 a.m. EST (UTC-4). Phoenix will land in the Red Planet’s northern polar region...
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After failed last-minute negotiations, Pakistani troops have moved in to end the nearly one-week standoff at the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad. There have been reports of an initial round of explosions early Tuesday morning (4:00 a.m. local time) followed by sounds of ongoing gunfire. As many as 1,800 clerics and followers had...
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“On Monday alleged prostitution ring leader Deborah Jeane Palfrey released 15,000 client names on her web site after a judge found no reason to seize the list. Louisiana Sen. David Vitter’s telephone number showed up in phone records for Pamela Martin and Associates, the name of the alleged prostitution ring. In a statement Vitter...
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President Tsvangirai’s message on the crisis in Zimbabwe 9 July 2007 Fellow Zimbabweans, The current siege on the struggling business community following a decision by the Robert Mugabe dictatorship looks set to back fire and plunge the country’s economy into serious chaos. Already, our embattled nation has begun to feel the pinch: shortages of...
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