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  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. Afterward, though, when you reread what you’ve done, you might want to see whether your modifiers , your descriptive words, do the job you’ve given them. should they be more or less specific? Should they me more descriptive? More judgmental? Are you trying to control the [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    In the United States we are having a very long, very heated and very important political debate over ensuring that every citizen has access to health care. Imagine what it would be like to live in a country where the government spends a total of $61 per citizen per year [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • MOBILES FIGHT POVERTY…

    Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development. [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:22pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: Ohio’s Senator George Voinovich was the only U. S. Senator to not cast a vote yesterday on moving the historic health care bill. It didn’t make a difference since his would have been the 40th Republican vote against moving the bill to a floor vote. Democrats had 60 votes [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • TIM, TIM, TIM, THEY WANT WEBSITES, NOT FACTS…

    Via Plunderbund… [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:25pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • MY COMMENTS…

    0803: Consensus Among Economists Says Stimulus Working 0734: The twitching rage of the irrational Republican when you tell them they fucked up our country [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:03am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. If you’re interested in watching a master put not only verbs but all the other parts of speech through their paces, you might make the acquaintance of Pelham Greenville Wodehouse. p. 205 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    Say what you will — I do as much as possible — about the State Peace and Development Council, aka Myanmar’s military dictators, but these guys have more chutzpah than the Menendez brothers begging for mercy because they’re orphans. And speaking of orphans, the generals do love the little tykes, [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • CREATING NEW CREATURES…

    Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to move -- and even survive -- on their own. [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • VOTE FOR JILL… AGAIN…

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    It would be nice if I got more than a t-shirt out of all this shilling. [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:11am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • YOU FUCKERS GAVE ME BAD ADVICE…

    I’m with Ta-Nehisi on this. Ziggy and Sarah need to talk. Ziggy takes some bad advice.by bzzinglikeneon [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:03am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • MY COMMENTS…

    [1158 -- Update.] 0947: Consensus Among Economists Says Stimulus Working [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:50am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. There is no more important component of fiction than dialogue. The words your characters speak to one another do more to convey their nuances to the reader than any words you can employ yourself to sketch them. Dialogue advances and defines plot, renders complicated developments fathomable, [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    In a vote by the United Nations 192-nation Third Committee, which focuses on human rights issues, North Korea and Myanmar were condemed for widespread and human rights violations. Sort of. The vote on North Korea was 97 yea, 19 nea and 65 abstentions. On Myanmar the vote was 92 yea, [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ORGANIC DESIGN…

    Designer Ross Lovegrove expounds his philosophy of “fat-free” design and offers insight into several of his extraordinary products, including the Ty Nant water bottle and the Go chair. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • WHAT THEY SAY…

    Kelley Bell-Wenzlaff writes: After a long and difficult debate on health care, The Stupak/Pitts Amendment passed The House 240 to 194 with 64 Democrats breaking from the party platform to add an amendment to the bill further restricting legal abortion. The move was underhanded, disgusting and unforgivable to the women in [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:38am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • YOU CAN’T HAVE YOUR COUNTRY BACK…

    Via Plunderbund… [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:34am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. We cannot control how the reader will receive our fictional message, nor should we be able as writers to assert such control. The best we can do, I believe, is write carefully and as honestly as we can and let the reader make of our work [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

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    While President Barack Hussein Obama’s visit to South East Asia and meeting with Myanmar’s Senior General Than Shwe did not result in any dramatic breaking of political logjams, it does appear that it may have given rise to the possibility of an unprecedented meeting between Shwe and oppossition leader Aung [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FIGHTING INJUSTICE WITH VIDEO…

    Musician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS -- and tells stories of citizen journalists in action. [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: Cuyahoga County has paid MMPI another $1,240,799 in addition to the monthly fees of $333,333.33, according to figures from the County Auditor’s department. The monthly fees have cost County taxpayers some $2.3 million to MMPI. As I noted earlier, MMPI collects this each month as a fee and give [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • MY COMMENTS…

    [1017 Update] 1005: What can we do to impact AFFECT implementation of county reform via Issue 6 0956: Fox News Proven Fair and Balanced? Um…No [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:57am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • YEAH, IT’S KINDA LIKE THAT…

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:37am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

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    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. The best surprise endings don’t merely surprise the reader. In addition they force him to reevaluate everything that has preceded them, so that he views the actions and the characters in a different light. p. 188 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

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    In our attention to presidents, prime ministers and emperors, it is too easy to miss the actions of those with no titles. The common citizen does not get to claim the title of Nobel Laureate. Those in the trenches seldom get a meeting with those who wield power. They takes [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: I find the way MMPI bills Cuyahoga County for its monthly “fee” an example of bad management taken to extreme. The billings tell the County nothing of what MMPI does for its healthy fee. Here’s what the entire “invoice” from MMPI says as a description of what it did [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:00pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • LEADERSHIP’S MISSING MANUAL…

    Leadership doesn't have a user's manual, but Fields Wicker-Miurin says stories of remarkable, local leaders are the next best thing. At a TED salon in London, she shares three.' [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:28pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: I talked with MMPI’s Mark Falanga after a three-hour Council briefing to ask a simple question. Did MMPI expect to build a private medical mart on public land at no cost? MMPI’s Falanga told Council that among a number of possibilities examined, MMPI wanted to build its Medical Mart [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • WALMART WEDNESDAY…

    It’s been a busy week in Wally World: the Universe’s source of cheap plastic crap. On The Writing On The Wal — the blog USA Today says should be on its readers’ radar — Jonathan Rees and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. On the other hand, there’s a special treat for the reader when the writer does try for verisimilitude. When I can read a book and believe (in the sense of that voluntary suspension of disbelief essential for success of fiction) that I’m reading real letters or [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • THE SURPRISING TV SPREAD OF IDOLS…

    Cynthia Schneider looks at two international "American Idol"-style shows -- one in Afghanistan, and one in the United Arab Emirates -- and shows the surprising effect that these reality-TV competitions are creating in their societies. [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • JIMI IZRAEL’S INTRO TO BLOGGING, TAKE 2…

    Jimi Izrael is back for more at Cuyahoga Community College. If you’re local, thinking that you can write better than us lame bloggers, check it out. [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:17pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:24pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: I guess I’m just stupid. I don’t get it. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson wants to tax garbage to raise $13 million a year. Then he wants to tax non-profits to raise $5 million a year. But residents already pay taxes to have their garbage picked up. Non-profits don’t [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • MY COMMENTS…

    1000: Port Authority, Wasserman & the WLST Way-Back Machine 0948: Quotes reflecting on rogues, celebrity and presidential substance 0928: Pam Geller Hates Muslims, Fears Cookies: The Movie [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:28am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

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    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:08am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • THE SCIENCE BEHIND A CLIMATE HEADLINE…

    In 4 minutes, atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change, with her team -- one of thousands who contributed -- taking a risky flight over the rainforest in pursuit of data on a key molecule. [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    Number of comments: 1
    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

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    Roldo Bartimole writes: See what I mean? Mayor Frank Jackson wants to charge $9.25 a month, or $111 a year. for garbage pickup. Hitting the little guy because he’s afraid of tapping those who paid his campaign bills. This is GARBAGE, Mayor Jackson! The same will go a weak-kneed City Council if [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 3:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • MEET DIGITAL EMILY…

    At TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes. [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • WHAT THEY SAY…

    Emily Badger writes: Sociologists at the University of North Carolina and Northwestern University examined an earlier case of deep commitment to the inaccurate: the belief, among many conservatives who voted for George W. Bush in 2004, that Saddam Hussein was at least partly responsible for the attacks on 9/11. Of 49 people [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:08am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • OF COURSE HE DID…

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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:10am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • MY COMMENTS…

    0659: On anniversary of Kristallnacht, this is how some Americans feel about Jews 0648: Port Authority, Wasserman & the WLST Way-Back Machine [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:59am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • WHAT THEY SAY…

    Ta-Nehisi Coates writes: We’ve got some time before this thing shakes out, and those numbers could change. But unless they want to basically be the party of the white South, this just seems stupid. Agreed. But they’re already there Ta-Nehisi. President Richard Nixon is smiling in hell. [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:42am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. What gives, I suspect, is a confusion of plot and idea. An idea, as I see it, is the premise of a story. A plot is the structure by means of which that idea is transferred into a work of fiction. p. 159 From Telling Lies for [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    The timing on this story from the Australia Network News seems odd to me. It could be the case that Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyer is attempting to nudge the State Peace and Development Council, aka Myanmar’s military dictators, or that he is anticipating a favorable outcome to back channel [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: I haven’t read the 300 page plus consulting report on management and efficiency of Cleveland government and I probably won’t. I’ll leave it to others. I know it won’t touch the one revenue source that Cleveland should tap if it had any concern for its citizens. It is [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:00pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • SYMMETRY, REALITY’S RIDDLE…

    The world turns on symmetry -- from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there's more to it than meets the eye. Here, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the invisible numbers that marry all symmetrical objects. [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: Clevelanders over the years have taken over the Yankees, the Knicks, the Nets, the Rangers, Madison Square Garden. If sports, why not the book industry. Well, not quite that ambitious but Bill Gunlocke who gave Cleveland the alternative paper The Edition, has started a blog and wonders if [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • HAVE COFFEE WILL WRITE TURNED FIVE…

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    Other projects kept me from earlier recognizing my 9 November bloggiversary this week, but I’ve reposted my very first blog post for anyone who would like to see where I began. Over the past five years I have published just shy of 9,000 posts — 8,922 to be precise — and [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:58am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME…

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    …Why the feck we learn about this gross disception by a major news organization on a comedy show? Where are CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC on this story? The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck’s Protest Footage www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis Can [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:39am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. Maugham explained that as a young man he wrote with the stunning confidence of youth, adopting the omniscient third-person viewpoint. But when he grew older, he reported, he found it much more secure to write in his own voice and from a fixed point of view. [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

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    Reality is all in the qualifiers, in this case an adverb. When President Barak Hussein Obama sits down with the heads of the ten member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations this weekend, he will reiterate the U.S. call for the release of all political prisoners in Myanmar. [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ARCHITECTURE THAT REPAIRS ITSELF…

    Venice, Italy is sinking. To save it, Rachel Armstrong says we need to outgrow architecture made of inert materials and, well, make architecture that grows itself. She proposes a not-quite-alive material that does its own repairs and sequesters carbon, too. [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • SOCRATES CAFÉ: THE MORNING AFTER…

    Tuesday evening our Socrates Café met at the Mayfield Road Phoenix Coffee House and the question we pulled from the box was: What does it mean for the media to provide balanced coverage? My initial reaction was that the concept of balanced coverage was a chimera, a serious bit of smoke and [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 4:40pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: Were there failures or absence of institutional and community structure that helped make the mass murderer of Imperial Avenue get away with the killings so easily? Yes, there were. People ask the question, why didn’t someone notice what was happening? How did this happen right under the noses of [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • WALMART WEDNESDAY…

    It’s been a busy week in Wally World: the Universe’s source of cheap plastic crap. On The Writing On The Wal — the blog USA Today says should be on its readers’ radar — Jonathan Rees and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. It is a temptation for novice writers to over-report such subway rides because they’re easy to write about while skimping on more important scenes which are trickier to write. When that subway ride is important – when the hero gets beaten up in its course or [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    While President Barak Hussein Obama has no plan for a bilateral meeting with Myanmar’s Prime Minister Thein Sein during the South East Asian Nationssummitt in Singapore, observers are expressing great interest in what might transpire when Obama meets with the 10 ASEAN members. From AFP: “The US has decided that its ASEAN [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • GIVING THE EUPHONIUM A NEW VOICE…

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    The euphonium, a tuba-like musical instrument, is rarely heard outside of traditional brass bands. Young euph prodigy Matthew White uses hip-hop rhythms and a wild new vocal technique to bring a fresh sound to this underappreciated horn. [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 1:12pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: The reason we don’t know why the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority dumped its chief executive Adam Wasserman is because the real leader of the board – John Carney – believes it’s none of your business. The Port Authority is one of those governmental bodies set up to avoid public [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM WHENCE I CAME…

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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:11am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • HE SAID… HE SAID… I SAY…

    Jeffrey Goldberg writes: I am not arguing, of course, that American Muslims, as a whole, are violently unhappy with America (I’ve argued the opposite, in fact). But I do think that elite makers of opinion in this country try very hard to ignore the larger meaning of violent acts when they [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:57am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • MY COMMENTS…

    0709: AFA: No More Muslims in the Military 0636: RNC Chairman suggests his party is racist [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:09am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. It might be more useful to point out that a story has two beginnings, it’s beginning on the first page and its chronological beginning. Sometimes they coincide. Sometimes the do not. p. 147 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…

    Just as fellow Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela was a constant lightening rod for protests against South Africa’s apartheid government, so to is Aung San Suu Kyi the inescapable top-of-mind political fact hanging in any discussion with Myanmar’s military dictators because imprisonment has negated Myanmar’s next election before a single vote [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • HOW THE INTERNET ENABLES INTIMACY…

    We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent's research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules. [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Number of comments: 2
    Roldo Bartimole writes: Ran into an old friend this morning at University Hospital where we older people are likely to meet. Boy was she angry. At Dennis Kucinich, a favorite of hers. Kucinich, as you may have noted, vote NO on the health care bill the other night. He gave good [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • TIMUS INTERRUPTUS GOES PLUNDERING…

    Ohio will never be the same… [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:43am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • HOW OHIO VOTED…

    [Update @1400: Brian Hester has a few words for John Boccieri. Update @ 1230: Roldo has a few words for Dennis Kucinich.] On H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act: Democrats — Boccieri, N; Driehaus, Y; Fudge, Y; Kaptur, Y; Kilroy, Y; Kucinich, N; Ryan, Y; Space, Y; Sutton, Y; Wilson, [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:52am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • WHAT THEY SAY…

    Antonino D’Ambrosio writes: Cash, [Kris Kristofferson] said, was a “holy terror … a dark and dangerous force of nature that also stood for mercy and justice for his fellow human beings.” Four years before his famous concert at Folsom Prison, four years before the American Indian Movement formed, and at the [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:36am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. A novel, as we’ve all heard far too often, ought to have a beginning, and a middle and an ending. No question about it. But not necessarily in that order. p. 145 From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: Could the pathetic condition of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party give us a Republican for the first County executive? Is the Pee Dee already pushing a Republican, the out-of-county son of Cleveland Indians’ owner Larry Dolan for the top spot? Ohio Rep. Matthew Dolan, it has been reported by [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:00pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. The function of the opening is: getting the story moving (p. 138); setting the tone (p. 139) or establishing the problem (p. 140). From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block. I wrote 1,667 words yesterday morning and my total word [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • COMPASSION AT THE DINNER TABLE…

    Join Rev. James Forbes at the dinner table of his Southern childhood, where his mother and father taught him what compassion really means day to day -- sharing with those who need love. [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • GLENN BECK HAD APPENDICITIS…

    Via Blogger Interrupted… [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:05am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: As if the Cleveland police don’t have enough on their hands. Now they have another missing person: Mayor Frank Jackson. Where is Frank Jackson? I’ve covered a lot of mayors going back to Ralph Locher. I don’t know one of them that would not have had a strong public presence [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 3:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY (NANORWIMO) CHAPBOOK…

    Found in my electronic chapbook. Where does one get one’s ideas? I had a friend who told askers of this particular question that there was a magazine published twice a month called The Idea Book, or some such nonsense. “It’s loaded with excellent plot ideas,” he said. “I have a subscription, [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • THE EVOLUTION OF COMPASSION…

    Robert Wright uses evolutionary biology and game theory to explain why we appreciate the Golden Rule ("Do unto others..."), why we sometimes ignore it and why there’s hope that, in the near future, we might all have the compassion to follow it. [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: It didn’t even take a day for the Pee Dee to setup the next pillage and plunder of Cleveland. Listen to what the Pee Dee said editorially the day after the casino issue, strongly backed by the paper, had to say about the use of its tax revenue: “So consider [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:30pm EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • RALPH’S SKETCH ‘N’ KVETCH…

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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:07am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • FROM MY DAD…

    I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 6:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess

  • ROLDO RIGHTS…

    Roldo Bartimole writes: Cleveland Browns fans may be angry with Randy Lerner and the Cleveland Browns football team but that didn’t stop them from contributing $10.9 million to help him this year. In October, Cuyahoga County taxpayers slipped another $1.2 million to pay for the Browns Stadium. The Browns are 1-7 this season. [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:30am EST
    by Jeff Hess
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