Some pics (click to enlarge)
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- Lightning, near our home
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- Indian paintbrush, Mt. St. Helens
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- The Storr, Scotland
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- The Thinker, Shafer version
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- Hurricane Ridge, Olympic NP
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- Devils Tower NM
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- Sleepy polar bear, Columbus Zoo
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- Great Sand Dunes NP
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- Four stoned presidents
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- Hello, Mr. Coyote!
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- Wild Goose Island, Glacier NP
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- Crater Lake NP
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- Mountain goat, Glacier NP
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- Missouri River, Teddy Roosevelt NP
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- Fallingwater, PA
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- Zion NP
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- Hoodoos, Colorado NM
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- Snake River & Mt. Moran, Tetons
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- Moon jellyfish, Ripley’s Aquarium, Gatlinburg, Tennessee
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- Grave Digger, taking a little rest
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- Mookie
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- Hummingbird at our feeder
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- Haystack Pass, Glacier NP
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- Square Tower House, Mesa Verde
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- Organ Pipe Cactus NM, Arizona
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- Niagara Falls
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- Buffalo Road, Wichita Mts. WR
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- Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain NP
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- Along the trail, Scotts Bluff NM
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- Meese, Grand Teton NP
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- Washington Monument
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- Blue Hot Spring, Yellowstone NP
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- Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau NHP
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- Orion launch, Nov. 16, 2022
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- Jordan Pond, Acadia NP
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- Deer on our trail camera
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- My Jeep, Yellowwood Forest, IN
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- Webster State Park, Kansas
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- Newspaper Rock, Canyonlands NP
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- Freaky bee, Black Canyon NP
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- Rattlesnake, Agate Fossil Beds
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- Young moose, Rocky Mountain NP
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- Grand Canyon NP
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- Campsite, Colorado NM
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- Western Brook Pond, Newfoundland
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- Kayaking, Douglas Lake, TN
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- Beauty at Logan Pass, Glacier NP
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- Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake
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- Shiprock Mountain, New Mexico
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- Friendly coyote, Teddy Roosevelt NP
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- Multnomah Falls, Oregon
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- Cumberland Falls
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- The Tetons
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- Sunset, North Sea, Scotland
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- Happy 4th!
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- Campsite, Black Canyon NP
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- Sunset over the nation’s capitol
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- The moon from my backyard
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- Bee clinging to thistle, Cahokia
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- Lunar eclipse, January 20, 2019
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- Bryce Canyon, Utah
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- Beautiful campsite, Badlands
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- Red Eagle Mountain, Glacier NP
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- Key Largo sunset
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- Cape Disappointment Lighthouse
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- Antelope Island State Park, Utah
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- Flight 93 National Memorial
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- Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland
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- Our teepee at Devils Tower NM
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- Kīlauea Crater, Hawaii Volcanoes NP
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- 2 cute pups dropped at our home
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- Elvis Costello and the Imposters
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- Ghost rock, Dolly Sods, WV
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- Me at Haystack Pass, Glacier NP
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- Craters of the Moon NM, Idaho
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- Sunset, Gettysburg NMP
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- Jupiter and Saturn
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- Douglas Lake, TN
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- Finch looking at the moon
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- Wild burro, Wind Cave NP
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- Great Plains, Rock Creek SHP, NE
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- Serpent Mound, Ohio
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- Manatee, Columbus Zoo
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- Sleepy elk, Rocky Mountain NP
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- Arches NP
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- Bro-in-law Dave, Black Canyon
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- Me, the Swilcan Bridge, Old Course
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- Greenan Castle, Ayr, Scotland
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- Zion NP
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- Mt. St. Helens NM
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- My flipflops, Rocky Mountain NP
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- Portland Head Lighthouse
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- Canyon de Chelly NM
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- Moonrise, Devils Tower NM
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- Spirit Mound Historic Prairie, SD
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- Gateway Arch, St. Louis
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- Chipmunk, Rocky Mountain NP
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- Supercell outside Wind Cave NP
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- Lovely Tom Shafer, Dolly Sods
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- Aster, Glacier NP
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- My Jeep, Monument Rocks, KS
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- Antietam National Battlefield
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- Grand Canyon NP
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- Glencoe Waterfall, Scotland
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- Foggy Portland Head Lighthouse
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- Rafting, New River Gorge
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- Along the trail, Arches NP
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- Sleepy bison, Yellowstone NP
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- Carolina wren in the backyard
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- Our teepee, Devils Tower
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- Bighorn sheep, Badlands NP
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- Friendly grizzly bear, Yellowstone
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- Fall in Ohio
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- Sergeant Floyd Monument, Iowa
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- Hungry prairie dog, Devils Tower
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- On vacation, work calls, WiFi needed, frustrated niece, “it’s my vacation!”, unauthorized photo
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- Darrin, the Road Hole, Old Course
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- Coyote, Yellowstone NP
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- Molting bighorn sheep, Badlands
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- Cody, WY powwow
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- Marmot, Rocky Mountain NP
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- Pea Ridge NMP, Arkansas
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- Hey, Jellyfish Brain!
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- A Dead Fly on the Landing between the First and Second Floors at Elmcroft
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- Thank You, Christianity Today
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- Fear This, Republicans!
- Another Mass Shooting
- 1460 days
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- Brave Mr. Trump
- Cheria Law
- Hi, America. I wanna buy a tank.
- President Post Turtle
- The Michael Scott Presidency
- He’s so Supervillian!
- Naturelated
- Solar Eclipse 2024!!
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- Saturn, and the Pale Blue Dot
- Thunderstorms are the Greatest Things Ever!
- Fire and Smoke and Lungs — Oh My!
- A Path to the Creek — and Thoreau
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- The Green Comet!
- The Animals ARE Talking to One Another on the Ohio Serengeti!
- Fall Has Fallen
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- Baby Cow Love
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- The Center of the Universe
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- What is Your Spirit Animal?
- Nature, Thanksgiving Whisperer
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- Cuyahoga Valley National Park
- Spring Has Sprung!
- The (not so?) Great Conjunction
- A Day in the Life . . . with Cats, Raccoons, and Skunks!
- Comet NEOWISE
- Camping, with Abe Lincoln and Fireflies
- Faceclouds and the Atheistic, Agnostic Christian Buddhist
- Happy Fiftieth, Mother Earth!
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- Betelgeuse, Coyote & Badger, and Mayor Pete
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- Of Mouse and Cat
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- Acadia National Park, Maine
- Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska
- Antelope Island State Park, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland
- Arches National Park, Utah
- Badlands National Park, South Dakota
- Battle Canyon State Historical Park, Kansas
- Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site, Colorado
- Big Hole National Battlefield, Montana
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado
- Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
- Caesar Creek State Park, Ohio
- Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Center, Illinois
- Canaan Valley, West Virginia
- Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona
- Canyonlands National Park (Newspaper Rock), Utah
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- Chickasaw Cultural Center, Oklahoma
- Cody, Wyoming, pow wow
- Colgate Licks National Recreation Trail, Idaho
- Colorado National Monument, Colorado
- Columbia River Gorge
- Columbus Zoo!
- Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota
- Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
- Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho
- Crazy Horse Memorial, South Dakota
- Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, Kentucky
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio
- Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming (including teepee camping!)
- Douglas Lake, Tennessee
- Dolly Sods Wilderness, West Virginia, Ghost Rock
- El Cuartelejo National Historic Landmark, Kansas
- Fallingwater, Pennsylvania
- Flight 93 National Memorial, Pennsylvania
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- Fort Buford (old Fort Union) State Historic Park, North Dakota
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- Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Wyoming
- Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Pennsylvania
- Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Montana
- Garden of the Gods National Natural Landmark, Colorado Springs
- Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania
- Glacier National Park, Montana
- Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
- Grand Canyon movie shorts (including condors!)
- Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
- Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
- Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Tennessee
- Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg, Tennessee
- Great Smokies, Cades Cove horses
- Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, West Virginia
- Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii
- Hueston Woods State Park, Ohio
- Independence Rock State Historic Site, Wyoming
- Indian Mound Reserve (and Cedar Cliff Falls), Cedarville, Ohio
- Key Largo, Florida, 2020
- Key Largo, Florida, 2018
- Lake Cumberland, Kentucky
- Lincoln Home National Historic Site and Lincoln Tomb, Springfield, Illinois
- Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana
- Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park, Kansas
- Loess Bluffs (Squaw Creek) National Wildlife Refuge, Missouri
- Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark, Wyoming
- Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
- Mexican Hat rock formation, Utah
- Missouri River (from the Lewis & Clark trip)
- Montezuma Castle National Monument, Arizona
- Monticello National Historic Landmark, Virginia
- Monument Rocks National Natural Landmark, Kansas
- Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington
- Mt. Rushmore National Monument, South Dakota
- Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington
- Newfoundland, Canada
- Niagara Falls State Park, New York
- Oakes Quarry Park, Fairborn, Ohio
- Ohiopyle State Park, Pennsylvania
- Organ Pipe National Monument, Arizona
- Olympic National Park, Washington
- Pea Ridge National Military Park, Arkansas
- Pearl Harbor National Memorial, Hawai’i
- Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
- Pipestone National Monument and Blue Mounds State Park, Minnesota
- Portland Head Lighthouse, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
- Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, Hawai’i
- Rock Creek Station State Historical Park, Nebraska
- Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
- Rocky Mountain young bull moose feeding
- Rocky Mountain sleepy elk
- Rocky Mountain mountain goats
- St. Lucia in the Caribbean
- Scotland
- Scotts Bluff National Monument and Chimney Rock National Historic Site, Nebraska
- Sedona, Arizona
- Serpent Mound Historical Site, Peebles, Ohio
- Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Spirit Mound Historic Prairie, South Dakota
- Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota
- Toadstool Geologic Park, Nebraska
- Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Eureka Springs, Arkansas
- Washington D.C.
- Webster Reservoir State Park, Kansas
- Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
- Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota
- Wind Cave supercell that spit out a tornado later
- Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
- Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
- Yellowstone grizzly bear
- Yellowwood State Forest, Brown County State Park, and Anderson Falls in central Indiana
- Zion National Park, Utah
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- What Was That?
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- Above the 38th Parallel
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- Harold the Fly — and Part II
- Just This . . .
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- What States’ Rights?
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- Thoughts and Prayers — Again.
- Good Catholic (?) Greg Abbott
- 2022 Midterms
- Eight Billion Humans!
- Put on your big boy pants, China!
- Hope for the future overturned
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- What the extremes in each party want
- The wild Midwest! Yehaw!
- Ron DeSantis and his aching groin
- The Greatest Generation and COVID
- Namby Pamby Florida (and Ron DeSantis)
- Rep. Davidson reveals historical ignorance
- Sen. Marshall can’t find easily-found info
- Thank you, Australia
- The Turd tries to ruin Kwanzaa
- Cuckoo Lauren Boebert
- The Rittenhouse verdict
- R’s don’t censure Gosar
- Gosar and the Bible
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- If men birthed children
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