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The name Gulf of Mexico had nothing do with the country we know today, which has the same name.

I get a lot of people asking me how I learned creative writing. My comment is always the same, “I dropped out of school and played touch-football on campus.” This made me dumber.

It seems as though everywhere on the planet you look these days, weather patterns are changing, and climates once predictable suddenly turn on you like a bad drunk. Beautiful Lakeside is no exception.

“The greatest danger to Mexico in 2025 is a large downgrade in its credit rating,” notes the Baker Institute for Public Policy.

There seems to be an overwhelming need and accommodation at Lakeside for live entertainment -- a Mexican Hat Dance of endless gringo entertainment possibilities.

The human species has a brain so complicated that it doesn’t have just one IQ measure, but several, which sounds more logical; and has a little something nice for everybody, even those whose waist size and standard IQ are the same.