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Not on the doorstep where they'd be visible.
Behind the planter. Where only someone who lives here would think to look.
Yesterday I saw him arranging it just so, making sure it was completely hidden.
"Porch pirates," he explained with a shrug.
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This is beautiful. Otter visits man kayaking.
These two must be friends already?
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Last night, my daughter asked if we could pause bedtime “just to sit.” No book, no show, no distraction. Just her little head on my shoulder and her tiny hand holding mine.
Someday, she won’t ask to sit.
So I sat. And I didn’t move.
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Well, yes, the paid pundits banging the drums of profits, but really the story is the story. When will the NY Times, Wapo, et al learn? They were so complicit in stirring up WMD fear and not doing their jobs as investigators. We the people could see and smell the Bush bullshit but somehow the big media could not. Will they continue to fall into this trap? And why didn't Chuck Todd follow up the Johnson answer with the conflict of intere$t question?
Because he is a bad journalist, lazy and compromised by the lights and Fame. Ok. That was my last rant of the night.
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