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Just a women’s issue. Really?
Although I’m probably now pro-choice–I haven’t decided–I have to take exception with the idea that abortion is only a woman’s issue. Some women may believe that but, based on my own experience, a woman’s decision about whether or not to abort an unborn child can affect the father of that unborn child every bit as…
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Kennedy Conspiracy Resurrected (Part 2)
I didn’t consider New York City to be a training ground for the Peace Corps. Official training was not to start for another month. Nor did I expect to see a doppelganger of Lee Harvey Osward, the man who’d assassinated President John F. Kennedy more than seven years before. By 1971, my folks had moved…
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Kennedy Conspiracy Resurrected (Part 1)
I was sorting through old books the other day when I came upon The Search For Lee Harvey Oswald by Robert J. Groden which was published in 1995. I read much of the book and remember being impressed that, whatever may have happened, Lee Harvey Osward was obviously running scared right after President Kennedy was…
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How (Not)to Fix a Water Damaged Cell Phone
So I washed my cell phone again. It isn’t as if I don’t have a special place to put it, because I do. I just don’t use it all the time. That being the case, when I wash my clothes, I always check my pockets to make sure I don’t wash my cell phone or…
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Facebook?
I’m writing this on my word press site, jimjouppi.com, but it goes to facebook as well. At least it’s supposed to go to my facebook site, Peace Corps Pariah, but I checked the other day, and only the first part of my word press entry went to facebook. Anyway, as already mentioned, I was in…
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Peace Corps Pariah
As already mentioned, I started this site to promote a book called Nakhon Phanom: The Domino Which Did Not Fall (and my Thai hometown) which isn’t selling. I did this after Scott at The Online Book Club asked me for my social media websites so they can promote the book. Of course, I paid them…
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Good Job Marina
Thought I’d write today about Marina Ovsyanniko’s six-second protest. I thought that was pretty amazing….like she decided she could do something that would count more than marching in the street. And then she pulled it off. I thought she’d immediately be arrested, and she was, but then, a day or two later, she’s sitting in…
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Social Media
I signed up with Word Press for the specific purpose of promoting a book I wrote called Nakhon Phanom: The Domino That Did Not Fall. I did the same thing ten years ago to promote another book called War of Hearts and Minds: an American Memoir. I know this is not social media, but at…
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