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Monthly Archives: February 2015
I am totally blind, and look forward to reading my braille copy of Playboy every month. Ever since I started dating my wife, Lisa, in 2005, I’ve read the Playboy Advisor to her while we’re lying together in bed.
When people who are light-dependent hear about this, most first think I’m kidding. When I show them the image of the Playboy bunny on the cover, reactions range from amazement to nervous laughter to edgy silence. While living in Washington, DC,…..
“Joseph will never make it as an athlete,” a sixth-grade coach told my wife, Lisa, and me. “He’s too uncoordinated.”
Last Wednesday afternoon, Joseph, my stepson, signed a letter committing him to play college football at Missouri Western, a division II powerhouse.
Joseph’s journey from uncoordinated klutz to one of the seven percent of high school football players who receive a scholarship to play college football began with a stint on an elite football team in Columbia, Missouri while he…..
The anti-global warming crowd won at least a short-term PR victory by voting for a Senate resolution supporting the existence of global warming.
“See,” they seemed to be saying, “we can be reasonable.”
They then opposed another Senate resolution indicating that human actions were a major contributor to global warming.
“Not only are we reasonable, we’re pragmatic,” they seemed to be saying with this second vote. “If we humans didn’t cause the problem, then we aren’t responsible for addressing it.”
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