Mintz's Musings

There's Always Something...Else

2012-01-02T14:50:00.001-05:00

So, I've been thinking... According to the New York Times(http://tinyurl.com/7axb59e, Retrieved 01/02/2012), we are selling them $11B worth of fighter jets, battle tanks and training to...

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Setting The Record Straight

2011-12-26T11:47:00.001-05:00

Recently, I've had some ideas that bear enlightening with regard to common beliefs that are, in fact, incorrect, to wit: Fiction: The Jews killed Christ (Jewish Deicide) Fact: No they didn't....

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The Merry Christmas Conundrum

2011-12-25T09:28:00.003-05:00

Every year, around this time, I hear Christians complaining that they feel stifled by not being allowed to "Merry Christmas" anyone they choose. They seem to be upset that, in our...

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What Happens After You Close the Door?

2011-08-18T14:11:00.003-04:00

As a kid, did you ever wonder what happened to the light after you closed the refrigerator door? Did the light stay on or go off? Did you want to know? Didn't you just? I did; it's to the...

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Hoisted by Your Own Petard Edition

2011-07-23T14:24:00.002-04:00

For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petard, an't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon. - Hamlet Act 3, scene 4,...

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God Bless

2011-07-10T20:54:00.002-04:00

Abby Wambach, Hope Solo and the entire USA Woman's National Soccer Team! Peace out, Jeff Mintz

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Living Will Surely Kill You

2011-04-15T08:33:00.003-04:00

And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one...

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Top Ten Movies Set In Boston

2011-04-10T09:44:00.001-04:00

Mark Wahlberg in The Departed (2006) Before reading my list, please make sure you review the guidelines I used when compiling and recompiling for this 3rd Edition. The criteria I used: Films...

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Do You Like Apples?

2011-04-10T04:56:00.010-04:00

A Mann's apple makes... I love apples. However, I've got a problem. I don't enjoy the varieties coming out of Washington State and haven’t for many years. Unfortunately, you see, WA...

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Please Like Or, At Least, Follow Me?

2011-04-06T12:45:00.005-04:00

Must I be subject to endless "Like me" or "Follow me" requests? Are we not the consumers? Must we advertise for you, you entities out there that incessantly ask or order us to like your...

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I'd Like to Share a Good Laugh With You Today

2011-03-25T09:49:00.001-04:00

Any doctor will tell you that laughter is the best medicine for the soul. To that end, I tender the following clip for your enjoyment. If you aren't laughing, as I was, semi-hysterically by...

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The Onion Gets Roasted

2011-03-18T12:05:00.005-04:00

Andover, MA-- The popular website newspaper "The Onion" was roasted today by a blogger in Andover, MA. It appears that, while attempting to obtain a writing position there, the editor of a...

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eThugs Beware

2011-03-17T10:22:00.001-04:00

attributed variously to Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - The recent online rant against...

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I Am Sooo Damn Predictable

2011-03-06T15:00:00.004-05:00

I read an article about an app called "Words With Friends" and decided to download it to check it out. The program is a rip-off of Scrabble(TM) having its own name and slightly different...

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Oh Say Can You See This?

2011-03-01T14:28:00.002-05:00

Lately I've been more interested in writing as evidenced be a few recent short posts; there are other periods during which I have great ideas that die of mental malnutrition because I am too busy or...

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Oh My God, I'm on Fire!

2011-02-24T13:54:00.004-05:00

Are these words to make any man's blood pressure rise when uttered by his wife or significant other? Do they provoke thoughts of corporeal delight leading to orgasmic ecstasy? In my case,...

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There Goes the Neighborhood (NIMBY?!)

2011-02-21T12:54:00.001-05:00

I suppose it had to happen someday; someday finally came. Now that the last of the old sisters at the end of the street has gone to meet her maker (if you believe in God) or unmakers (if you believe...

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What a Fool Believes (The Sequel)

2010-12-15T20:17:00.000-05:00

If you read my original post on the matter, you know that I was diagnosed with diabetes a few months ago. I began, for the most part, watching what I was eating, exercising little, and producing...

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Refudiate this!

2010-12-14T19:04:00.001-05:00

In recent news, Sarah Palin tweeted (twat?) the word, "refudiate"(sic) to the masses and in the East, a storm of biblical proportions develops. Why? Because she's...

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Qatar? Really, FIFA, really?

2010-12-02T22:20:00.001-05:00

*BLINK * You're kidding, right? The 2022 FIFA World Cup is being held in a country that signed a defense co-operative agreement with Iran. That's right, Iran. It might as well have been...

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Today's Blog Deals With My Digression

2010-11-13T18:32:00.001-05:00

It is a true that the longer we live, the more we forget. After all, if we have lived less long there is not so much to remember and, it follows, less to forget to remember. The longer we live, the...

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What A Fool Believes

2010-10-12T21:27:00.000-04:00

What a fool believes he sees no wise man has the power to reason away - Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald (What a Fool Believes) I paid my Doctor a visit in July and she read me the riot act about my...

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Thoughts That Go Bump in the Night and Other Eerie Tales

2010-09-13T21:49:00.005-04:00

Dracula: Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula [about the wolves that are howling] Listen to them: the children of the night. What music they make. - Bela Lugosi (Dracula, 1931) The...

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On Groats and Other Notes

2010-09-11T13:28:00.005-04:00

Musing Sorry if you're tuning in to read something enlightening today, it's just not going to happen. What you will find is some brain fodder. Eat! I've learned to be humble over the last...

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Jingo Hell, Jingo Hell, Jingo All The Way!

2010-09-01T21:53:00.011-04:00

Artist's Rendering of Proposed Mosque I can't believe we're back to this whole mosque thing. A certain individual I know has sent me a few online "clippings" which I dismissed as "jingoism" of...

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