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This is all B.S. for several reasons.

1) This is not about worker freedom. If it was, then civil rights and other labor groups would be supporting this. Also, the fact that police and...

I haven't walked it in a long time, but if you walk around the block my grandparents lived on [[11768 Kilbourne) there are several sections of sidewalk dating back to 1910, etc. Also, on Promenade...

Ok, good point, Jackie! He was canonized by Pope Paschal III in 1166, but this and all other acts by Paschal III were later rescinded by a later pope. Nevertheless, Charlemagne [[Blessed Carolus...

I think if you take a communion wafer and throw it on the ground and step on it that will get you excommunicated.

I recently read about how 75 Mormons got together to have a communal leaving the...

I used to buy the argument that people need to have handguns to keep the government in check, but not anymore. Look, the government has Apache helicopters, RPG's, laser-guided bombs, M-1 tanks......

I used to subscribe to the belief that "if handguns are outlawed, only outlaws will have handguns." But then I realized that at some point, virtually every handgun used in a crime was at some point,...

This is probably a phenomenon called "regression to the mean." Data tend to settle toward the mean. This was first shown by Sir Francis Galton when comparing the heights of children to the heights...

How and where did a 16 year old get a handgun?

I used to subscribe to the belief that if handguns are outlawed, only outlaws will have handguns.

But I have changed my views after thinking about...

I am happy to report that my first year of Peace Corps service has been awesome! I am in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, teaching Management courses to MBA and PhD students at the Institute of Finance and...

I just accepted my invitation today -- I report on June 5 for 27 months of teaching English at a university in Mongolia! Thanks again, Lowell, for all your help sharing your Peace Corps experience...

I commend Mr. Bobb for his leadership and willingness to shake up the status quo. I volunteered to be one of the pre-K reading tutors, and I'm enthused that someone, at least, in Detroit is showing...

Just found out last week that I passed the medical exam.

I volunteered.

Yes, these books are heavy reading, that is for sure.

Well it took me almost 4 months but I finally got all 63 pages of my medical application materials together and sent in. It cost me over $700 to get everything done, and I was reimbursed almost...

We are hoping to start a new book club after the first of the year, a series of 4-5 scholarly books about Detroit using Tom Sugrue's award-winning "Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in...

I went for my interview yesterday [[6/18). The recruiter came from Chicago and had a public event at the Detroit Library on Woodward on Wednesday evening, then did interviews at the Inn on Ferry...

I am currently a Lecturer at a local university, teaching HR courses. I have the summer off this summer, too!

I am a retired skilled tradesman from one of the Big 3, that is how I can afford to...

I am getting ready to click "submit" on my application as well. I am just going through and re-writing my cross-cultural and motivation essays. I'll probably have that done to my satisfaction by...

Maxine, I see your screen name is 1958, I am assuming you have an older sister? My Aunt Debbie [[maiden name Bieke) used to pal around with a red-headed Heyns girl back in the day. My aunt was born...

Dear Maxine,

We used to live on Wilshire near Roseberry, but we moved away when I was 10 in 1972. I also went to St. David's Elementary for grades 1-4. My parents are both from large families in...

I have run across this William Murphy [[born 1892, office supt.) before when I have done my own genealogical research. My grandmother [[Gertrude Murphy) lived in LaSalle, ONT, and commuted to work at...