The first of the rebate checks have gone out, here's a couple pespectives, from an economic standpoint, as to why they may be a good idea, but mostly are a shitty idea.

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At this point in the game, as career go-time gets closer and closer, I'm becoming more apprehensive about what my future is going to be like ( Read more... )

Whenever I go on long trips and during the last few years I always have my Shuffle with me, and and about 85% of the time I only listen to albums, never really individual songs. What happens is, I end up associating that music with that specific point in time and those specific trips that I took. These are just a few of the associations I still ( Read more... )

I have some very strong opinions about feminism and have gotten into more than one full out arguments over the differences between men and women. Never so far as to say that gender inequity doesn't exist, because it absolutely does, but rather getting into things like biology and nature vs. nurture and things like that. In the last year I started ( Read more... )

wow, I am utterly blown away by this Obama speech.

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This is one of the finest speeches I've seen. Its scope is much farther reaching than any of the campaigning this year has ever been and is so much more in tune with what an "American Identity" actually is. Its import is greater than any of the sound bites and the regular campaign tactics that ( Read more... )

It's pretty easy for me to tone and put on muscle if I go to the gm regularly. I don't get dramatic bulk increases, and I'm finding that in order to do that I'd really have to be putting more time and concentration than I can afford at the moment. I think no matter what happens gaining weight is probably going to be very difficult for me to do, ( Read more... )

I only get sick once a year. But that time is right now. It also happens to be stressful midterm time as well, which sucks but whatever duuuudeI think I'm going to try quitting some things for the next month or so ( Read more... )

A very posi and informative article about Canadian HealthcareI don't have too much experience with the healthcare system up here, but I do know I have very awesome coverage through my school. From what I can tell most of what this article says seems to match up with what I hear most people say about the system up here (and the few experiences I ( Read more... )

"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost ( Read more... )

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