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I Don't Drink The Kool-Aid. For Anybody.

My Top Ten All-Time Best Life Experiences

By Paul Oyler / August 30, 2010 /

This is my list of my Top Ten Coolest Life Experiences (not counting stuff like getting married, having babies, etc.; it goes without saying that they top the list), at least until I remember something else that displaces one of these.  Again, they are listed in no particular order: Being on Scrabble, with Chuck Woolery,…

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10 Days Left…and 30 Posts to Go…

By Paul Oyler / August 30, 2010 /

And I will make it, I promise, though it will mean that I have a lot of writing to do over the next week and a half before the final vestiges of my youth wither away like a fallen leaf in autumn.  Let’s start, as I reminisce over my life (and it’s my life, so…

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Disingenuity from Liberals Frosts Me

By Paul Oyler / August 19, 2010 /

Does it you? Before I quit this blogging thing—or a la Brett Favre, say I’m going to quit, and then not quit, but maybe quit, decide to continue but then really quit, except if and when I keep on blogging—one of the things that I’ve been meaning to write about is two particularly galling examples…

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Buffoonery in the Name of Jesus…

By Paul Oyler / August 19, 2010 /

Is still buffoonery. It is one thing—one appropriate thing, of course—to stand for Christ and His truth.  It’s quite another to do what these people are proposing, which constitutes, not a stand for Jesus, but a needlessly offensive, counterproductive affront to people of another faith.  Never mind the fact that that other faith is, as…

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50 Years of Life, a Retrospective: Part II B.1

By Paul Oyler / August 14, 2010 /

Oops…it dawned on me that there was one other sports moment that had to make the list: Phil Mickelson winning the 2004 Masters.  If you could watch that event unfold and say that golf on TV is always boring, well, I got nothing for ya. Phil Finally Wins a Major Honorable Mention in my little…

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