David F

David F (2031)

U.Mo. is Having a Bad Week or Two

Mo. State Senator Kurt Schaefer is attempting to block a University of Missouri PhD candidate's research on the effect that the state's anti-choice enforced waiting period for abortions has on women in the state. story here Schaefer sent a letter to the University in which…

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Vonnegut's Advice on Writing

For my friends doing NaNoWriMo, which I did not have the courage to tackle this year. Advice on Writing from one of the best First: How to Write a Short Story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmVcIhnvSx8 Second: The Shapes of Stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ War. Backwards. https://vimeo.com/60575926 So it goes.

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Mizzou Racism

Props to the football team, for being the force that got something moving on the racism issues at the University of Missouri. But. Why The F* did it need the football team to get the University board off their butts? A 24-year old grad student…

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Jiggety-Jig

To market, to market To buy a fat pig. Home again, home again, Jiggety-jig. The Mother Goose rhyme probably means "Jiggety-jig" to refer to a horse-drawn cart, but it works for me as a reference to a passenger train. We're on the way home from…

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