struggle

Sean Braisted makes an interesting assertion in response to comparison by Mike Byrd between telcom immunity and desegregation:

John McCain courageously went to the NAACP convention to wax poetic about his time in Vietnam (because he can't resist reminding us he was a POW) and how it relates to Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes I forget what this is all about.

Whites Creek Journal is really about the largest unpolluted watershed in the State of Tennessee, outside the Smokies...And the struggle to keep it that way.
Up until the last month, there have been a number of roads that travel through the three county watershed. I use the term "road" with the understanding that in lots of places they aren't roads

"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due." Or so sayeth author and priest William Ralph Inge.

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.
Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

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The Wall Street Journal's Ethan Smith has been closely following an internal rift over Live Nation's multi-million, multi-rights deals (a la $120 for Madonna). Today came an article that claims Live Nation chairman Michael Cohl is attempting to negotiate an exit from the company.

Growing up, I (among many I know) had only a few phrases that you just didn’t say. Schoolyard spats could be waged every day, and just about anything was kosher to use in the struggle. My sixth grade class was no exception. We were pre-pubescent and steaming full speed ahead, and our teacher, Mr. Tays [...]

I know many people have threatened to take away Pete’s “man card” in previous posts for various reasons. After he so graciously asked me to guest blog this week, I thought I’d appease the female audience and lower the testosterone quotient even more on Without Wax. Well, as much as one girl is able to do…

It's hard enough to simply get the things one needs for survival when one is homeless. It's even harder to keep anything of value once one is successful in obtaining it.

The “enlightened” upwardly mobile struggle with their votes in hard economic times: