Monthly Archives: March 2018
Mysterious manuscript
I googled the phrase “mysterious manuscript,” and almost all the results pertained to one and the same text.
A case for the death penalty
Death penalty sought for alleged Boston bomber Tsarnaev
A friend of mine, a Lutheran pastor, opposes capital punishment. But to my mind, her story, which she told me circa 1985, poses the premiere case for the death penalty.
She had a son, a lively pre-teen, who died suddenly under suspicious circumstances. At first, police found a person of interest in Arthur Goode, a known pedophile who was known to have been in the area at the time. It was soon enough established that Goode had been nowhere near the time and place of the death, and the death was ruled accidental.
That did not prevent Goode from harassing the family for years with phone calls and letters in which he spewed forth lurid details of what he now alleged he had done with the boy.
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Lesson 12: Other words containing “nch”
Word list:
inch ranch winch pinch lynch cinch wrench drench
French Grinch inches inched quench clinch trench
ranches winches pinches pinched cinches wrenches
wrenched drenches drenched quenches trenches
clinched clinches quenched
French Grinch inches inched quench clinch trench
ranches winches pinches pinched cinches wrenches
wrenched drenches drenched quenches trenches
clinched clinches quenched
Jackson Beck: Hero and role model
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Job search update, 03/03/14
Update 02/28/14 here.
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Tuesday 2014-02-11. My prospect for the City job fell through this morning.
Some may find this story TMI, but I will get it out more quickly if I don’t try to trim it. To cut to the chase, click here.
The listing came up in my search engine results, probably in August, that the City was accepting applications for the title of Secretary II. Interested people could first apply, then take the appropriate exams, and if they passed they would be put on an eligibility list for positions with this title throughout City government. The work site for any position could be anywhere.
In September I took and passed those exams.
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The Homeless Blogger 