Day: March 18, 2017

The Godfather, by Mario Puzo

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My Copy: 9780451167712 With the fantastic Academy Award-winning movie a pop-culture staple (that I'd seen at least a dozen times), I have to say I'm not terribly surprised that the book was just as good--if not better. I was afraid that reading this would lead me to skipping big chunks of it as scenes from the … Continue reading The Godfather, by Mario Puzo

#018–Before March 2003, what had Saddam Hussein done that he hadn’t already been doing for 13 years?

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Credit to msnbc.com for the featured image. Okay, this question's been one of the constant ones in my noggin, and I've never gotten a succinct answer for it. There's a great political cartoon I found in U.S. News and World (which I cut out and kept in my files) that really summed up what was bugging me … Continue reading #018–Before March 2003, what had Saddam Hussein done that he hadn’t already been doing for 13 years?