Op-Ed

Opposite the Editorial - World writings based on a word
This issue's word:

minutiae

mi•nu•ti•ae plural noun

the small, precise, or trivial details of something : the minutiae of everyday life.

This issue's writings:
Chad Calease ponders the sounds of the shoes /  David Browne ruminates about counting stir-sticks /  waxieus contemplates histrionic wrappers and cans beside the road of time /  Ed Eibel muses on the rise and fall of the prozac empire /  DaveTheGrinch investigates the new political studs /  Chad Calease reflects upon the tented arch and whorl / 

Minutiae

The Triple Venti® Royale® with Cheese®

I have counted more white, plastic hot beverage stir-sticks than you can possibly imagine. Count ‘em in and count ‘em out, goes the saying around The McDonalds Corporation’s management training school - affectionally and officially known as the Hamburger University. I am a graduate. My diploma is a plastic wall clock bearing the perma-grinned Ronald […]

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The Hunterson Effect»

I come from good stock, Senator, stock that knows its way around the political stud farm and, best yet, I’m a young Democratic colt with a glint in his eye and fire in his loins. And you, Senator, are no mare but a political filly, galloping through the halls of Our Nation’s Capitol.

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Fingerprints (in HTML)»

short ridges, island bifurcates and reunites points of interest, short ridges branching off a single ridge divided into two ridge endings - a ridge that ends with enclosures - a single ridge that is splitting into two abruptly