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Yet That’s Where the Adventure Begins
“The problem with books is that they end,” writer, author and all-round world champion blogger, Victoria Ray wrote recently. I didn’t immediately read her entire post as I was too busy disagreeing with her supposition. Her words tossed me back into my ninth-year of life, when for Christmas someone, (more than likely a gift from…
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The Vague and Mysterious Death of Frank Fish
On a low hill in the back of the Jackson City cemetery is a nearly forgotten grave. And yet the bones beneath its plain marker shows it belongs to one of the most famous treasure hunters of the 1960s. Frank L. Fish was very successful at finding treasure, but his contribution to the history of…
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Walmart’s ‘Receipt Check’ Bad for Customer Relations
The common law of ‘Shopkeeper’s Privilege,’ is set out in NRS 205.220 and NRS 205.240 and allows retailers to detain suspected shoplifters. The detainment must occur on store property and the merchant can only hold the suspect for a reasonable amount of time, i.e., until the police arrive. It is ‘Shopkeeper’s Privilege,’ on which Walmart’s…
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Since the federal government is shutdown, I think I’ll go visit Area 51.
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Dog Food
Convicted of butchering an abusive ‘John’ by slicing him open, placing a cheap wind-up clock in his bowels, Nanette crudely stitched him up, waiting to see if time heals all wounds. It doesn’t. Now she endures time, day-dreaming in nightmare-fashion, of that ‘final ten-foot’ of life. She lacks the knife, but in her minds-eye, she takes…
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Name one corporation with 800-thousand non-essential employees on its payroll. And…go!
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Ignorance breeds false moral superiority.
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Nothing messes up a Friday like realizing it’s only Wednesday.
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A new study finds that standing still while smirking and wearing a red hat causes no real harm.
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A picture’s only worth a thousand words because everyone sees something different in it.