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- Dumped on by Fay (4)
  - hollylisle: Jess, you get huge thanks from me. I’m grateful for every copy. :D
  - Jess: Completely unrelated: I picked “The Ruby Key” for my August staff recommendation at The Bookstore,...
  - hollylisle: I’m enjoying putting it together, and I’m thrilled with the breakthroughs people are having....
  - teresa: But I, for one amongst many, am very very very grateful for all the time and effort you’re putting into...
- Breakthrough! (3)
  - Ann: The obvious answer, to me at least, is because we can. :) I can think of others, but now I’m going to have...
  - Shawn Hansen: I am sensing a trend: when in need of ideas go to Target! Enjoy the thrill: the course is GREAT.
  - vanity: That’s intriguing, I think I only have the obvious answer as to why bother with world building. Looking...
- A cool maybe on THE RUBY KEY (7)
  - Jess: That would be great about RK!! So you know, my store did a Summer Reading themed Staff Recommendations display...
  - MarFisk: Wow, that is cool on Ruby Key. I don’t remember them from my childhood (I was probably too old when we...
  - HaizeaM: That’d be great!! Hope everything turns out well - the course and the book fairs. Good luck~
  - vanity: Coolness! Hopefully you’ll get some additional exposure and recognition when the book fair thing works...
  - Kyralae: I really hope the Ruby Key book does make it to the book fair. Boy do I remember those days. I live in a...
- Think Sideways Movie Demo #2 (1)
  - Kyralae: Vwry, very nice Holly. The sound quality was crystal clear and even the speakers on the laptop were able to...
- Discord and Rhyme: My Cowboys Have Always Been Heroes (7)
  - Bethanie: What a great article! Excellent message and brilliantly written. Congrats to Matt!
  - Keely: Woo-Hoo!!!
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Best Katrina Commentaries

“Shocked by the Military Rolling In?” by our PolarBear

An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State (Disagree with some language in this — I think some people have no other alternative but welfare, unfortunately, and cannot think of them as leeches; beyond that, however, the writer does have his facts well-marshalled)

Debunking Some Katrina Myths

Nagin Bails?

Don’t Blame Only the Feds

ABC News Gets It Right

And for laughs, because God knows we need them:
John Wayne vs. Jeff Spicoli

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