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"A homeless man who found a purse containing nearly $1,000 returned it to a needy mother of three—but admits he thought about ke

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Posted on August 3, 2008 - 6:18am at Stone Soup Station
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Even with a positive story about a Homeless man, the media has to find a way to show that "those homeless" are shifty, prone to theft and scandalous.

Who gives two [bleep]s whether he thought about keeping the money?

"He's dressed in rags on a busy downtown street corner, playing Beethoven on a battered violin that looks like it's been pulled

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Posted on July 24, 2008 - 7:14am at Stone Soup Station
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Having similar encounters on a daily basis with unbelievably gifted people who also suffer from debilitating mental illnesses while wandering the streets of Nashville, I'm very much looking forward to reading Lopez' work here...

"...Hutchins, 20, who had been living at a homeless shelter on Brookside Drive, was shot in the head in the park, at 1651 Folsom

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Posted on July 24, 2008 - 5:36am at Stone Soup Station
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Two more POS heading to the Big-House for some fun and games at the hands of Bubba and his wife, Leon...

Two charged in slaying of homeless man - San Jose Mercury News

"In the first six months of this year, 13 homeless people have been killed across the country....a pace on par with last year's,

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Posted on July 15, 2008 - 8:19am at Stone Soup Station
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Doesn't matter where you live, fecal flecks prone to violence are undoubtedly lurking somewhere within your community, just waiting for an opportunity to stirke.

"The good news is that the needs of homeless children are being better met by school districts. Therefore, there is less of a ne

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Posted on July 12, 2008 - 8:40am at Stone Soup Station
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I'm not so sure I would agree with Mr. Elliot's analysis here.

When You Are Engulfed In Flames

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Posted on June 13, 2008 - 3:28pm at Shlog
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"Sedaris’s droll assessment of the mundane and the eccentrics who inhabit the world’s crevices makes him one of the greatest humorists writing today” -Chicago Tribune

“When a writer like Sedaris comes along who can make you giddy with laughter at the same time that he’s visiting some of the darker corners of existence, we ought to celebrate.” -San Jose Mercury News

My Kind Of Awards Show

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Posted on January 14, 2008 - 10:55am at Southern Beale
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Yay! Finally, an awards show I can almost tolerate. Thanks to the Writer’s Guild strike, the Golden Globes were axed and instead replaced by 30 minutes of people reading a list of winners--surely a “record for award-show brevity,” says the San Jose Mercury News.

Would that they could all be that way. No lame dance routines, cheesy film montages or dorky acceptance speeches from actors thanking their agents. All they needed w

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