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Gosh, is it my favorite time of year? I do believe it is....
Oh, hey, it must be September already. It must be time to clean out under the bed and get ready to hunker down. How do I know this ( Read more... ) -
Quote!
To consider persons and events and situations only in the
light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
Thomas Merton, 1915 - 1968 -
I wish you had thought of that sooner.
In the wake of the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords ...
You just told me that you don't like being lumped with "conservative Christians" and you don't agree with their rhetoric about gays and lesbians.
I wish you had thought of that when Fred Phelps was in the next town, disrupting a funeral. You could have gone to the counter protest ( Read more... ) -
Advice ...
for many situations ( Read more... ) -
Observation, and Question
Observation: We really only have two industries in this country ( Read more... ) -
Yummy!
I just finished peeling and seeding about 3 lbs. of Hatch green chile.
We found it in the local grocer -- not the upscale grocer, not the farmer's market, but the ratty little one down the road -- "Hatch" green chile, the sign said, and it looked right.
So I bought it, hnwombat roasted it on the barbeque grill, and now it's peeled and seeded. Probably I ( Read more... ) -
Quote of the Day
It's a pity we can't just seriously divide the country in two. On one side, all you people who don't want "socialism" can go and live without Medicare, municipal sewer systems, roads that are maintained by government funds, running water, fire departments, police departments, national/state/city parks, public libraries, and other such disgusting ( Read more... ) -
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You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked "female".
-- from A Dress A Day ( Read more... ) -
J is for Just So.
Couldn't remember this earlier, but I needed to, what with the large plush stuffed Pelican watching me eat my dinner....
A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill can hold more than his bellican,
He can take in his beak,
Enough food for a week,
But I’m damned if I see how the helican
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Axiom
The woman you are talking to, right now, has major body image issues ( Read more... )