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Fighting Cock Torpedo
I picked up a pretty good deal this week at Cigars International. They had a cigar called, oddly, a Fighting Cock, which is a cigar made in Nicaragua, and possessing an extremely strong flavor. My typical cigar is oftentimes a mild cigar like the Macanudo Gold or an Arturo Fuene, and since it’s been a […]
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Acrid and Foul
I’m flipping through the latest copy of the Cigars International catalog this morning, and I found a surprisingly honest review for Fat Cat cigars. Remember this brand from the boom? At that time with the severe shortages, cigar smokers would resort to just about any cigar available on the shelf. Even despite those circumstances, it’s […]
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A New Stove
Christmas came early at our home today. Our last stove was dying, and my anger with it didn’t help it any. With Sarah’s busy schedule, the fact that our last stove didn’t have features like time bake and delay bake really was causing problems. I grew up in a home with time bake, and one […]
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A Fundamental Flaw
I’m writing this article in the midst of a lot of turmoil going on in our church right now. Many people who grow up in a certain lifestyle have difficulty figuring out whether they hold their beliefs through a conscientious decision, or whether they’ve come to that conclusion by default. For as long as I […]
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Kiwi
Sad little animation, but I liked it…
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A Waking Dream
Japan has started to become a recurring dream to me. I fall asleep, and feel like I wake up at 4am (like I did this morning). I take a shuttle down to the airport, jump on a couple airplanes, and end up in this fantasy world. I eat weird food, put on a thousand dollar […]
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Republicans are Losing Libertarians
The Washington Post has written up an article confirming my earlier prognostication… the Republican Party is losing the vote of the libertarians, and the libertarians are growing. Libertarians usually vote for Republicans, who promise to hold down taxes, spending and regulation. But in the past six years of Republican control in Washington, federal spending has […]
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12 Rules for Promoting Harmony…
From PCA News Time Capsule: Twelve Rules for Promoting Harmony Among Church Members by Thomas Smyth To remember that we are all subject to failings and infirmities, of one kind or another. – Matthew 7:1-5; Rom 2:21-23. To bear with and not magnify each other’s infirmities. – Galatians 6:1. To pray one for another in […]