Paul Shinkle
Socrates, great food and a generous slot machine form the three legged stool of earthly happiness.
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Second Rate Excellence: Why Smart Leaders Prefer to Be Excellent Than FirstOur error isn't in judging that the first place people are excellent but in our failure to acknowledge that the second and third and thirtieth best are also excellent. Good leaders don't make this error.
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Mussels MilwaukeeMussels Milwaukee fuses a fun and sweet seafood with spicy sausage, great cheese and a full-throated regional beer into a feast best shared with friends. -
Preparing for the BlizzardI'm sitting in my comfy apartment in downtown Milwaukee thinking about the next 24 hours. A blizzard is coming, due to start in about 4 hours. 'Hope the best, but prepare for the worst' is not cliche;-it's just good sense.
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Withdrawing Troops from Iraq is the Next Step in Nation BuildingThe Army can't solve every problem. As an American, that's a weird idea. Our armed forces have protected the weakest and most oppressed people in the world and defeated genocidal tyrants who turned their power to govern into savage bloodlust.
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How to Run a Rock Band Without Leaving HomeI manage three working bands; I'm adding a fourth later this week. Thanks to my crews, I've got more than 2 million in my pocket right now. I work about an hour a day. I love the smell of platinum in the morning, don't you?
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Why I Support a New and Improved DraftIt's a good thing there isn't actually a Liberal Card. If there was, I'd probably get mine revoked. I'm a liberal. And there are certain things that middle-aged Liberals are expected to hold as sacred. Hatred for the draft is one of them.
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The Gambler and HopeWhen it comes to making money, the gambler's addiction, as anyone knows, is as efficient as chopsticks in oatmeal. It is an expensive habit and the high the addict enjoys is both horribly rare and demonically short-lived. This is, for the gambler, no small source of pride.
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Appreciating Surrealist Artist Rene MagritteIt has been said, "there are no innocent eyes." We do not merely absorb the world about us. In a sense we actively create what we see by choosing what to see and what to overlook, by prioritizing what we do choose to see and by critically analyzing what we see.
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Elegy to Richard BrautiganBrautigan's suicide shook me. All the worse because I was tending to suicides on a weekly basis as a paramedic.
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Short Story - Held at Arm's LengthTwo college friends compare notes 5 years on. But which of them enjoys success?