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Beer Lists Greg,a friend of mine out in Chicagoland,introduced me to a really cool website earlier last week. RateBeer.com is something I’ve been looking for,on and off,for quite a while now –a place to keep track of and evaluate the beers I’ve sampled. Part of it,I guess,Read on… Lately I’ve been disappointed with the quality of my writing here. When I started consistently updating Carriage Return I was writing much more prolifically,and with higher-quality content. In the recent months it seems that my focus has shifted away from presenting well-reasoned,interesting,and engaging articles to a constant stream of musings and Op-Ed Read on… I confess it here and now. I’m an unabashed fan of the T-shirt. The majority of my time is spent in uniform,one that wasn’t designed to be particularly comfortable. The fabric doesn’t breathe at all because it has to be extremely tear-resistant,and the pattern was cut by someone who has Read on… I don’t drink much pop (or soda,if that’s what you call it) anymore. Back when I was in high school,I had a nearly unquenchable thirst for the stuff,especially for Coke. I never got the jitters,and I could successfully drink pop on the night before a cross country meet and still be Read on… | ||||
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American V:The Pain of Johnny Cash
Prologue
When I was spending the summer of 2004 in the heat-beaten desolation of extreme Western Iraq,I had plenty of opportunity to get to know the men in my platoon. One of them,a guy named Larry,was a 155mm howitzer section chief by trade,forced into a role as a squad leader after Read on…