Archive for August, 2011
Dear John
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We’ve been together for five years this month. Did you remember, or have you forgotten? I would imagine you’ve forgotten. You’re selfish that way. You see John, I’ve come to the understanding that you need me around here just about as much as I [Read More]
A Tenacious & Muzzled Update
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So far, the training is going fine. Of course, we continue to keep the dogs separated at practically all times. When they’re not separated, the human members of the organization execute rigid policies which will not create an environment ripe for hurt feelings and [Read More]
Vending Machine Vengeance
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Vending machines are wonderful things. That’s right, you just fell into a blog about vending machines. I think it goes without saying that technological advances of the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries have brought the science behind these [Read More]
The Final On Deck
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Certainly it was a minor coincidence that his jersey sported the number 10. On the cosmic, harmonic convergence level of things, the assignment was dead on to what it should have been. As he waited patiently on deck for his turn to bat for what would be the last time, [Read More]
Happily & Voluntarily Soaked
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I know the subject matter in which I’m about to weave my verbal brilliance is nothing new. Regardless, I find it necessary to write this piece because I’ve yet to see anyone do it. Ironically enough I’m about to quote a Bible verse. One of the things [Read More]
Why You Gotta Vote
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Call me a cynic. Call me a skeptic. When it comes down to it, I just don’t trust the American voting public to get it right more than every once in a awhile. Spooky. I know. Sadly I believe they got it right in the 2006 mid-terms, but not for the same reasons you [Read More]
Inconsiderate Angry Birds
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There was a time a few years ago when I first launched TharpSter.Org where anything I wrote and published had to be done all in one sitting. If I had an idea, I had to sit down at the PC and knock it out immediately. An idea couldn’t be held in order to be written [Read More]
Tenacious Faith & Muzzled Hope
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Of all of the dispatches to the web I’ve published here on TharpSter.Org over the last few years, I would have to say my favorite ones have been the ongoing reports from The Pit Bull Diaries. For those of you not familiar with the this collection (how could you not [Read More]
World Canine Unity Day
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It had been years in the making. That certain innate sense of being which every living dog ever possessed was acutely focused on the visionary ambition that everyone could get along if they really wanted to. For centuries, the different breeds had perpetually been at war [Read More]
