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[Photo by KPA] Spring flowers and green leaves surround the Allan Gardens and the conservatory. Only a few months ago , snow covered the gro...

L- Spike Lee with his white-looking wife posing with race-baiter Sharpton R- Zakaria and Throckmorton-Zakaria I recently posted on the Thi...

"I couldn't do without a pansy bed­" From Reverie , by Helen Bath Swanson [Photo by KPA] Reverie By Helen Bath Swanson A warm ...

Zakaria and Throckmorton-Zakaria In my previous post Malign America, but Marry Her Women , I wrote that Fareed Zakaria is married to the sta...