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Many years ago I wore removal retainers on my teeth. I got them in 1991 and stopped wearing them around 1995, when the orthodontist recommended that my next step should be headgear braces, something I DID NOT WANT and was told (at the beginning) would never happen. The period of 1991-1995 alone marked the worst years of my life. For one, the ( Read more... )

Had I not moved out of California in 1998, public transportation would have been my means to get around. My parents had their "we don't want to teach you how to drive to save on liability insurance" policy. Sure, I could have done what I would eventually do in AZ - save up and learn on my own - but in California, everything would have been more ( Read more... )

I watched the Oct 20 edition of FRONTLINE on PBS, which talked about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, an independent government agency here in the U.S. Never heard of it? Neither did I, until Tuesday night. It's a small watchdog agency that was (in layman's terms) responsible for monitoring and litigating trade fraud. The documentary ( Read more... )

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Samael's upcoming album will be a return to basics, just as the band claims. No more suckfest industrial pop.

Or maybe someone heard the leak and knows for sure...

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