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Overheard: It's the thought that counts

Published 07/06/08

Certain things have no place at the breakfast table. Pizza is one of them. Existentialism is another.

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So, while I have no qualms with what the gentlemen at the next table were eating for breakfast - it was standard coffee shop fare - their conversation, which moved from philosophy to chemistry and back again, was more than I could follow. I'd like to think it was because the little hand was still working its way toward the 7, but I fear that, more than likely, it's because my days of deep thinking are over.

As they compared the philosophies of Aristotle and Confucius, I read about Jamie Lynn Spears' move to...

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Overheard - 2008-07-07 07:49:07

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