“Trick or treat!” David yelled as the door opened. He held out his plastic jack-o-lantern and the lady who answered the door put a small paper bag in it. “Thank you,” he said and turned around. I was a little suspicious that he got a paper bag instead of so-called fun size candy. I became […]
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I was pushing my cart down the cereal aisle when I became aware of a specific drum pattern playing overhead on the Wal-Mart radio network. I had to stop and listen carefully but sure enough it was the military beat intro to Jefferson Airplane’s song, “White Rabbit.” I shook my head in disbelief. A company
I’m not sure how many “get into the kitchen and make me a sandwich!” stories I’ve seen passed around the Internet, but the fact that any such stories exist at all is slightly worrying. Who taught boys to treat women like that? Where in school is it said that objectifying others is even close to
After attaining the rank of Major in the Civil War, Henry McAllister maintained the friendship of his cohort, General William Jackson Palmer, and at Palmer’s request, McAllister arrived in Colorado Springs in 1872, shortly after the city’s founding. He fell in love with the Rockies and loved looking up at Pikes Peak. He spent a
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In 1867, a gentleman by the name of Henri Nestlé, a German immigrant working as a pharmacist in Switzerland, had a neighbor with pneumonia that rendered her unable to breastfeed her child. He calculated levels of cows milk, sugar, and wheat flour and tried the baby on it until, finally, the baby took it and
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Bankruptcy is almost here although many don’t even realize this. It’s time for Americans to get serious and ask themselves why the United States government consistently spends far more than it makes. This fiscal policy has placed our country in terrible jeopardy. In 2010, for instance, the U.S. government spent $3.5 trillion yet only took in around $2.16 trillion in total
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