Name: Tom Bux
Weblog: blog.pennlive.com/fatherhood
Articles: 102
First Published: Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Last Published: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Currently listing articles 102-51:
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Simple Joys: Old TV Shows and Network Sign-Offs— I miss old television shows, station IDs, channel sign-offs. These are gone forever.
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The Joy of Cast Iron— You'll enjoy and grow to love this classic, proven cooking method - starting with this recipe for pineapple upside down cake.
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The Typewritten Manuscript— Not having the distraction of iTunes, e-mail, and high-speed web browsing makes me stick to my craft.
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The Comeback of Vinyl— It seems an old technology is taking the hearts and minds of America.
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Product Review: The Harmony One Remote Control— ...
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TV Review: ABC's Notes From the Underbelly Is About Everyone Who's Ever Been Pregnant— ABC's Notes from the Underbelly is a funny, satirical look at parenting and pregnancy.
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Why I Left the Conservative Movement— How Dennis Prager's column solidified my opinions against the Conservative movement.
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Starbucks Vs The DoubleShot Coffee Company For Naming Rights— The corporate giant uses lawyers and threats of lawsuits to silence competition.
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Circling The Wagon Around Bush Regarding the Port Issue— I believe in the old saying, "Trust, but verify". The last time he said "trust me" was during the Harriet Miers nomination fiasco, and
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When the State Police Act Like The Mafia— The Elks clubs of the United States do more for the communities they serve in one weekend than most state police barracks do in a
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Brokeback Mountain And The Cultural Divide— Should Hollywood feel snubbed that Utah banned Brokeback Mountain?
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Sirius Tranforms Radio As We Know It With Howard Stern— Radio is being transformed. Are you part of the revolution?
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From The Earth to the Moon— Caught behind the Russians in the space race, NASA preservered and innocated through the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs.
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Musing of a Typewriter Collector— There are quite a few typewriter collectors out there. I read somewhere that 90% of them are men and 100% of their wives think
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Some Freedom Issues— ...
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Mark Levin and Men In Black— ...
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RESTaurant in Peace— The women may love the guy, but I think as a person he has a lot to be desired. He is rude to his
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Michael Crichton's State of Fear— The story moves fast and keeps you interested in the plot. The characters, though somewhat clichéd, are likeable enough to keep you concerned for
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A Profession of Faith— What kind of loving God controls through fear and intimidation? Wouldn't we take a child away from a parent that acted in much the
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A Masonic Primer And Reading List For After Seeing "National Treasure"— With all this media attention lately about Freemasons, in books and movies, I thought it would be interesting to briefly mention several interesting books
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Fat or Not. Just ask your Big Brother— ...
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Liberals just wanna be liked— I guess it all comes down to the fact that they don't understand why we don't like people like Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, and
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Johnny Ban That Gun!!— It looks like JFK flipped again. This time on a gun that he once tried to outlaw. The truth is The Remington
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Bad news for the Dems.— Going into the convention Bush was riding a small bounce, and between the convention and other news today, it is not a great time to
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Girlie Men vote Democratic— ...
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Raving Mad about MADD— ...
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The Assistants: A Novel by Robin Lynn Williams— ...
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My obsessive beer habit— ...
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Popular Mechanics assaulted by gun grabbers— The gun friendly leaning tendencies of Popular Mechanics have not gone unnoticed by people who support gun control or gun bans. Some letters
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The Village: M Night Shyamalan's latest work— Originally titled The Woods the name was changed to shift focus back onto the center point of the story, the village.
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France's Liberal Socialism— It seems to me that France's Liberal Socialism has killed more people than any Neocon's "illegal war" has.
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Day one recap
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Tyranny of the two-bit state senator— I think I'll go into the American Cancer Society's offices and light up a big Cuban Cigar. That'll get their attention.
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Kerry's Voodoo Economics
— In the Treasury Department's monthly budget statement, June income outpaced spending by $19.14 billion, slightly less than the government's June 2003 surplus of $21.23 billion.
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In walks Elliot Ness— ...
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Government Butts into private club affairs— I see no problem with a business, be it a restaurant or bar, allowing smoking, or not allowing smoking. If a business owner wants
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Philadelphia: Pay to Play— Voters had a chance to elect Sam Katz last election. An imperfect candidate, but one that might have changed the tone of politics in
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Werewolves attacking US troops.— And just like the rebuilding of Germany and Japan after World War II, the naysayers are saying it can't be done. But history has
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Katie Melua calls off the search— Overall, the album is bluesy and warm. Her sultry voice reminiscent of Bernadette Peters or Ertha Kitt coos in the show tune like "My Aphrodisiac
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More Bang for your Buck— With the Forth of July fast approaching comes the need to make some noise. The most popular means of noise making was previously fireworks.
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King of Kings, in Philadelphia.— Sitting in the shoe department during my last visit Peter Richard Conte, the chief organist, played Carrilon De Westminster. The sheer enormity of the
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Low Sugar Coke and Pepsi Hits the Market— I just recently had a chance to try both Coke C2 and Pepsi Edge. Both promise 1/2 the carbs and sugar of the regular
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M3 Razor: A Review— I just purchased the new Gillette M3 Power razor after hearing a lot of buzz (from people, not the razor). I wanted to share
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History will again prove them wrong— A common theme of mine, and something I strongly believe in is that the modern Democratic party and the majority of the current liberal movement
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More Guns, Less Crime— According to John Lott, a well-respected researcher in the effectiveness of Gun laws, and author of More Guns, Less Crime, the gun grabbers have gotten
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Elections: They aren't really supposed to reflect the will of the people?— In a move reminiscent of Soviet era thuggery, a high school in Delaware county in Pennsylvania has used its iron fist to control the elections
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Dish Network Offers Sirius Music— One thing which I never was fond of was the music channels offered by Dish. I thought there was a good selection, but the
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Cigars to our Troops— The troops fighting in Iraq no doubt love the same guilty pleasures as the rest of us. Send them a smoke!
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Take Churchill's Advice on War— The decisions we make right now will determine if our children and children's children will face a world free of threat of Islamofacist terror, or
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My last word on Toomey-Specter— Today is primary election day here in Pennsylvania, and off to vote I go. Snarlin Arlen Specter is getting desperate, he knows he is
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HMS Surprise, a review— ...
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Arlen Specter goes down..hopefully.— ...
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