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QT: Or Try Ezekiel 23:19-20

By Zay N. Smith

News Headline: “Church steeples rented out as cell phone towers.”
And don’t think the sexting community isn’t grateful.

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Joe Lueken, owner of supermarkets in Minnesota and North Dakota, on why he will transfer ownership to his 400 employees upon retirement:
“My employees are largely responsible for any success I’ve had, and they deserve to get some of the benefits of that.”
Lueken knows an important truth about free enterprise:
He built that.
And so did they.

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Posted on November 30, 2012

Helmut Jahn Explains The O’Hare Tunnel

And The Dreaded Thompson Center

“The O’Hare United Tunnel connects two terminals and is since its opening in 1987 a glorious merge of art and architecture,” writes Dennis Bangert on this YouTube upload.
“The idea of a subterranean landscape came from Helmut Jahn, the music and light installation from artist Michael Hayden.”

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Posted on November 29, 2012

QT: Not With A Bang But A Tweet

By Zay N. Smith

News Headline: “Can books endure in a 140-character world?”
So. Let’s see.
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago–never mind how long precisely–having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me o
Well. OK.
Maybe not.
Moby-Dick is 8,609 tweets long, by the way.

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Posted on November 28, 2012

QT: Can’t You Feel It In The Air?

By Zay N. Smith

News Headline: “Christmas season is finally here.”
News Headline: “Man punched in face, pulls gun on line-cutting shopper.”
News Headline: “Shots fired outside Walmart.”
Ho, Ho, Ho!

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Posted on November 26, 2012

That Balloon Tastes Like Apple

Comes With Pin

It doesn’t fill you up, but you do get way more than your recommended daily allowance of helium.
But is it an hors d’oeurve or dessert?
And can it be baked into a pie?

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Posted on November 23, 2012

QT: Time For The Party (Of The First Part)

By Zay N. Smith

Happy (QT offers this statement without representation or warranty as to the effects or repercussions thereof upon any and all persons who might elect to celebrate the holiday as represented therein and with the understanding that any persons taking such actions without such representation or warranty do so with the express understanding that they have agreed to indemnify and hold QT harmless from the effects thereof) Thanksgiving!

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Posted on November 21, 2012

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