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Before I get to what I wanted to discuss today, I didn’t realize I missed a milestone. In the same week I passed 6000 tweets I also passed 2000 posts here at The Sunshine Empire. The world is a vastly different place from when I began writing this back in 2007. Since that time we’ve [...]

Jon Stewart throughly cuts holes in the current al-Qaeda Seven garbage and most of the spurious straw men that the right often use to scare up votes. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

I’ve been derelict in my duties to this blog the last couple of days for a variety of reasons. On Saturday I nearly froze to death, in Florida, as my dad and I worked to build the walls of a house for Habitat for Humanity in St. Augustine. During the Sunday political shows the big [...]

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

Yesterday evening I received a call from my mother informing me that my uncle Kenny had passed away from an apparent heart attack. Her stepbrother was a quiet, sweet man who lived almost as a recluse. After his service during the Vietnam War he was irreparably changed. The horrible reaction of the American people to [...]

As we reach the end of the first decade of the 21st century the news is filled with not only year end reviews but also decade end reviews. I began this decade in a simple and unglamorous fashion. In late 1999 my girlfriend’s parents at the time were paranoid Trilateral Commission types convinced that the [...]

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