Entries by G. Xavier Robillard


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Pumpkin Spice Latte; A DEA Drug Fact Sheet

Autumn comes with shortening days, and associations with stressful holidays such as Thanksgiving and Veteran’s Day. Such stressors lead to anxiety and depression, and with that, abuse of drugs. With the carefree fun of Halloween, and the more insidious aspects of the creeping death of winter comes the scourge that is PSL (Pumpkin Spice Latte), […]

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Geppeto: Helicopter Parent

FROM: Geppetto@earthlink.com TO: Sunnydale Elementary Listserv RE: Hello! Hello parents, I’m Geppetto, and I’ll bet I’m as excited as anyone to get the class list for Ms. Hudson’s kindergarten. Can you believe school starts next month? In the class list I noticed that my son’s name is listed as Pinocchio. This is incorrect. Though many […]

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The Olive Garden Specials Menu written by a Former Political Operative

The Gamechanger This artichoke and basil pesto panini is, simply put, the very best sandwich on the planet. This sandwich is so revolutionary, so important that it will finally cause America to stop calling single sandwiches “paninis” which is totally absurd because the word is panino in singular, plural panini. A panino like this has […]