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TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2005

Wild Card -- Tuesday (4/19/05)

It's time to bring the curtain down on another interesting day at Huckleberries Online. Some flames. Some hurt feelings. Some meeting of the minds, behind the scenes. One eviction. And a new pope. All carefully blogged. You know what to do with your Wild Card.…

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Amo Poetica 1

I never learned how you cook love, is it two parts lust and one part like, slow boiled on a stovetop or is it a freezer burned heart you thaw in a stainless steel kitchen sink full of room temperature water until soft and into…

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Text of Pope Benedict's first speech ...

Here is the text of the speech delivered by newly elected Pope Benedict XVI from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica today (courtesy of WorldNetDaily). Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me – a simple, humble…

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Inside Huckleberries

4:57 p.m. I'm halfway through ex-CDA Press reporter Brent Andrews' book, "The Pot Plan." It's a bare-all book about teen drinking, the punk scene, rehabilitation, jail, and (I hope somewhere in the next 200 pages) redemption. It's well written. At this point, I'd give it…

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Peanut Gallery (Disappointed Lib Catholics)

"Expect some hand-wringing over this choice. Cardinal Ratzinger is considered by many to be even more conservative than John Paul II" -- The Heimlich Maneuver.DFO: It's already begun; several Catholics in my circle have bemoaned the politics of the new pope and are considering joining…

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Peanut Gallery (Marina Kalani)

re: Fascinating post from last night:I'm sure Marina would kill me for writing - but someone who actually knows her should chime in. Marina's father worked in prison administration in California. She holds college degrees in Criminal Justice and Education. She was a director of…

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Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.