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| fbf529b | cite the following books: The Supreme Court Explained by Ellen Greenberg, Norton Publishing, 1997; The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Supreme Court by Lita Epstein, Alpha, 2004; and Images of America: Arlington National Cemetery by George W. Dodge, Arcadia Publishing, 2006. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 226c4da | Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958-1981." | Max Allan Collins | ||
| c00786d | damned good friend. As they neared the Chain Bridge, Gutierrez's sense of loss was heightened by the knowledge that his colleague would almost certainly be replaced by a liberal, thanks to the Devlin Harrison presidency. Conservatives would still control the Court, true, but the balance would now be only five to four. The concern | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 3b271e6 | and Chelsea boots, and moved | Max Allan Collins | ||
| a0b7fec | Of course, if my callers last night were supposed to get in touch with Ash, after killing me, he might be a little on edge, since the only way he might have heard from those guys since last night was if he'd been to a seance. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 453cc90 | background. Nancy had an antique brass bed. I had the feeling these girls weren't two of a kind. Meanwhile, I was going through things. The name she was using here was Glenna Cole, but I found identification cards of various sorts in several other names. The | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 60d3d54 | late, too, just so you know. Both took off a while ago, maybe half an hour 'fore you got here." "All right," Caine said, "now it's" | Max Allan Collins | ||
| ad119f9 | The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." Thomas Paine" | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 0d68ca9 | waiting for him to start the conversation. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| d1193f6 | Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 423a8fb | To get what you want, stop doing what isn't working. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 63c2a38 | wire-frame glasses. | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 4bbd42c | pursed | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 9625563 | hiked | Max Allan Collins | ||
| adcc0a2 | Como se imaginaba su equipo ya estaba trabajando a marchas forzadas. Cada uno se afanaba en su mision, pero nadie iba con prisas. Trabajar rapidamente, les habia ensenado Caine, invocando una antigua regla de entrenador, pero sin prisas. No era un mantra sin sentido: cuando vas con prisas, pasas por alto cosas. No obstante, la lluvia empeoraba y les quedaba poco tiempo. La madre naturaleza hacia de complice de un asesino. | policial-y-misterio | Max Allan Collins | |
| 03c9c80 | I'd like to be known just as a good worker in the vineyard who held his own and contributed generally to the advancement of the law." Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, 1970-1994, author of the Roe v. Wade decision. Section 5, Lot 40-4, Map Grid V/W-36, Arlington National Cemetery." | Max Allan Collins | ||
| 214c925 | A rise often falls into the blind spot of vision, and so we tell the stories that I have in this book because we are hardwired not to be able to glimpse them. Like a type II error in statistics, a "false negative," when we have the evidence but can't see that an alternative hypothesis is correct, these rises are a perceptual miss. We tell the story of Muhammad Ali's eighth-round win against George Foreman that night in Kinshasa, Zaire, even.. | Sarah Lewis | ||
| 6d858c9 | Party of the Century by Deborah Davis, about Truman Capote's famous Black and White Ball. Capote by Gerald Clarke. Truman Capote by George Plimpton. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson. Slim, the memoir of Slim Keith. And The Sisters by David Grafton, about Babe Paley and her sisters. | Melanie Benjamin | ||
| c7d4c05 | Besides, good swearing is used as a form of punctuation, not necessarily a response to pain or insult, and is utilized by experts to lend a sentence a certain zest, like a sprinkling of paprika. | George Plimpton | ||
| 01296b6 | the diver's chest. Hoke pushed the bell, and the glass | Charles Willeford | ||
| f7df2df | There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats. | humor arrogant beards egotistical pompous pomposity distrust cats | Charles Willeford | |
| de94dde | As summarized professionally by Lewin in Science69 (and popularly by Adler and Carey in Newsweek70), | Gary E. Parker | ||
| 6f8e624 | You never apologised to me for getting my legs broken either." "I said sorry in my own way, Gary." | Mike Carey | ||
| deca34b | You never apologised to me for getting my legs broken, either." "I said sorry in my own way, Gary." "By never referring to it again and dodging the subject whenever I brought it up." "Exactly." | Mike Carey | ||
| f32bd63 | They were rocketing along a country lane where there was no cell phone service, propelled by the grouchy Mogul's constant, ill-tempered exhortations. "Faster!" yelled the Mogul, who was used to yelling at people he felt entitled to yell at. "I don't want to be late to this fucking thing!" | Stanley Bing | ||
| 65e82a8 | Avoid not only mustaches, but also sideburns and chin whiskers. Men with facial hair are seldom trusted. | Shepherd Mead | ||
| be6e353 | These are tough times," said the COO to each of them. "And tough times call for hard solutions. Thank you for your contribution. Now get the fuck out of here." Actually, he didn't say that precisely. But that's precisely what he meant." | Stanley Bing | ||
| ec485ed | He therefore determined to hire a hatchet man to do the nasty work for him, bringing in a former McKinsey operative and giving him the title of Chief Operating Officer. This COO was himself quite expensive, his salary, bonus, long-term compensation, and perquisites amounting to the cost of several hundred smaller jobs. He at once targeted Law, Accounting, Public Relations, Event Planning, Office Services, and several other formerly integrat.. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 8b0efc4 | Dude," he said, adopting the modified surfer patois that binds together much of the more youthful cadre of senior management. "You can't take me out. This place is nothing without a planning operation that understands and is dedicated to the day to day. Give me a chance to exercise my chops and demonstrate my added value. Besides, I'm no lawyer. I'm no beancounter. I'm a Wharton grad, did six years at KPMG. I was instrumental in the transac.. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 145db9c | Six months later, when the cutbacks were all done, the Chief Executive Officer fired this very same hatchet man with exactly the same words. "What a bastard," said the CEO to himself as he started the search for a new second banana, a search he didn't actually have time to complete before his new bosses at the hedge fund took him out, a step that cost them $147 million in severance but that they still considered a good investment. "What a b.. | Stanley Bing | ||
| 96ebfc4 | To a real elephant, and not a sheep, wolf, or gnu in elephant's clothing, you are not there. There is no You. There is no Is. There is only the Elephant. Don't you see how silly that | Stanley Bing | ||
| ee6619c | Tech made all things possible, and therefore mandatory. Not to mention the fact that carrying around all this smartphone in your purse or pocket had become such a fantastic drag. Cranial implant was so much easier. Now they could be in touch with the hive 24/7 and have their hands free for whatever. Their cars drove them everywhere, too. Also left them free to, you know, do whatever. | science science-fiction-comedy snarky-humor modern-life technology sarcasm | Stanley Bing | |
| 91320bd | In 1821, the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to West Africa to buy, on what was known as the "Pepper Coast," land that could be used as a colony for relocated slaves from America. He sailed to the location on the Mesurado River aboard the naval schooner USS Alligator, commanded by Lieutenant Robert Stockton. When they arrived, Stockton forced the sale of some land at gunpoint, from a local tribal chief named King Peter. Soon af.. | slavery history liberia west-africa | Captain Hank Bracker "Seawater Two...." | |
| 60a0274 | I'm just pulling up these weeds.' 'Why?' She thought about this for a second. 'Well, they don't belong here.' 'Oh. Where do they belong, then?' 'They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow. 'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere. | Kathryn Hughes | ||
| 3008d16 | given a new name, chosen by the nuns, a more | Kathryn Hughes | ||
| dae053d | rubbed | Kathryn Hughes | ||
| e3793ad | For some politics has become a battle ground that allows them to vent their frustrations, while at the same time hide behind the anonymity of the social media. For others it has become a weapon to overwhelm their opponents by the weight of the number of comments sent to the originator of the blog or article. Fair or not, this method of cyber warfare works and could possibly change the course of history. A continuance of this cyber activity .. | current-events | Captain Hank Bracker The Exciting Story of Cuba | |
| 7e42364 | During the first century ravens or crows were often taken on board "Viking Knarr's," to be released thinking that they would fly in the direction of land. The lookout would observe the direction the birds flew in, so that the navigator could follow their course. Since the crow's nest is high from the vessel's center of gravity it is subject to violent motion in relatively calm or moderate seas. Any amount of movement of the ship is amplifie.. | sea-stories | Captain Hank Bracker "Seawater One...." | |
| dfeda81 | Flotsam | seastories west-africa | Captain Hank Bracker "Seawater Two...." | |
| 52d337f | From The Bridge" by Captain Hank Bracker Mundane Happenings Life is just packed with "Mundane Happenings!" It's the mundane happenings that usually take the most time and they always seem to interfere, just about when you want to do something really important. Let's start with mundane things that are routine, like doing the dishes and taking out the garbage. The list for a single person might be a little less involved or complicated but it .. | history informative | Captain Hank Bracker | |
| 4c2896e | It was to be the longest flight I had ever made in my young life and one of the most interesting. Having always been interested in the magic of aviation I knew that the DC-6B, I boarded was an approximately 75 seat, trans-ocean, Pan Am Clipper. It would also be the last long distance propeller driven commercial airliner. The only difference between it and the DC-6A was that it didn't have a large cargo door in its side, and it was also appr.. | sea-stories social-history | Captain Hank Bracker "Seawater Two...." | |
| b2d6fc9 | One of the more useful things I learned as a midshipman at Maine Maritime Academy were the names of the seven masts of a seven masted schooner. When I mentioned to the 600 people in attendance at a Homecoming event that my degree was a BS in Marlinspike Seamanship no one laughed, leaving me in the embarrassing position of having to explain that actually I had a Bachelor of Marine Science degree. Later looking into a mirror I convinced mysel.. | sea-stories ships | Captain Hank Bracker "Seawater One...." | |
| 939d6e5 | The Caribbean is still an exciting destination. I have been to just about every notable island surrounding this sea and have yet to be bored. Some of the islands are administered by other countries like Saint Martin; some are independent countries such as Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The languages differ from island to island and include English, French, Spanish, Dutch Haitian Creole and Papiamento although English is understood .. | dominican-republic seastories | Captain Hank Bracker "Seawater One...." | |
| da80ed5 | Being constantly active made time fly, and so it didn't take long before the day of departure came. It was January 4, 1953, and with the last of everything we needed aboard, we set sail just as many did before us. We were among those that continued the tradition of... "they that go down to the sea in ships" and we were very aware that this tradition rested on our shoulders. | maine-maritime-academy maritime-history | Captain Hank Bracker "Seawater One...." |