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Dennis McDougal
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November 2010
Nearer My God To Thee or Got To Get Ourselves Back To The Garden
Walked out past light rain at daybreak to pick up the Sunday New York Times from the foot of our driveway this morning, attentive to the green and scented whole of our home nestled into the copse of an ancient forest. My old friend John Fleming emailed last week. A born again with a fierce fear of this world, he sanctions me from time to time to hand my soul over to Jesus and accompanies his advic
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Mother's Day
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1995
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Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree
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1991
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The Yosemite Murders
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2000
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The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood
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Dylan The Biography
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2014
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Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times
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2007
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In the Best of Families: The Anatomy of a True Tragedy
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1994
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Bob Dylan: The Biography
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2014
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Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty
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2001
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Blood Cold: Fame, Sex, and Murder in Hollywood
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2002
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“bullet. Then he asked that Mrs. Lydia Hansen, Clifford’s older sister, take the witness stand. Zarick objected. Mrs. Hansen was a new witness, not a rebuttal witness, he argued. If she took the stand, she could only address the points that Dorfman had made earlier, before he rested his case. The judge ordered Zarick and Dorfman into his chambers while he pondered this point of law. “Lydia Hansen would have testified to the threats, showing a predisposition to do harm,” Dorfman said. “If Theresa expressed animosity against the guy in the past, it would certainly raise questions about this being a killing in retaliation for a beating.” But this logic didn’t wash with Judge Johnson. Dorfman had presented a case for second-degree murder at best, he said, and he would not allow Mrs. Hansen to testify as a”
― Mother's Day
― Mother's Day
“Bad judges, lousy cops, greedy lawyers, lazy prosecutors, mediocre teachers, and incompetent bureaucrats are inevitable. When they happen, they should be weeded out and sent back to school to learn something about moral courage and the Golden Rule.”
― Mother's Day
― Mother's Day
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True Crime read in 2016 ~ Reviews welcome here
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What are you reading in 2016? Anything goes.
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Don't bother -- this may be the single worst thing I've struggled through in a decade. The linear equivalent of bad network
TV