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Dog
But the best thing was when he looked at her with unquestioning love. This, she had told herself, was love. And the part of her mind that had seen Dogs Decoded on Nova, a scientific, genetic program studying the co-evolution of dogs and man--she shushed it into a corner she peacefully ignored. The program explained the relationship as one of simple ( Read more... ) -
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Is there a way to resurrect this fine community of bloggers and bloggists? I notice that most of you posted last at around the rise in popularity of Zuckerberg's black hole of social villainy. In particular, I miss the level of craft and general creative endeavor that was expended on this site for the amusement of others... -
interesting numbers in my area
In West Hollywood, the median household income of Native Americans is twice that of Whites and Asians.
In West HOllywood, the LARGEST income bracket is between 75k and 100k dollars a year.
88,000 people in Los Angeles are without homes. The residents with homes call the residents without homes BUMS. This word is also used to describe people with ( Read more... ) -
Marriage
Entry #1
I got married about 6 months ago. My husband and I immediately threw our roommate out to celebrate our legally binding union. The other thing that happened is that my husband quit going to school and casually told me that he had no intention of becoming a Registered Nurse. Now that we had locked our lives into step he was courageously doing ( Read more... ) -
Eric Rohmer RIP
Eric Rohmer est mort. Voici le bonhomme responsable pour mon voyage en France, mes etudes de la langue francaise...Il etait capable de la nostalgie comme personne d'autre. Amazing films, rent them. -
The trauma of narrative or why talking to my grandma is depressing
Is In that it gives us the illusion that life is a story, a linear, chronological arrangement of events that build to some coherent end where In reality, at the end of teh average human life most lose what they have strived for all their lives-- friends die, work becomes irrelevant, outdated, views archaic, stale...life is ultimately non- ( Read more... ) -
I think today was my breaking point with fuckbook
because every last goddam person wrote the same stupid message. something about how nobody should have to go broke if they are sick. well i disagree. if you bought yourself a goddam playstation and big screen tv you cant afford you SHOULD die. And of course with the onslaught of mass consensus I realized dissent would natually be unpopular. And ( Read more... ) -
In response to Lawrence White's article
Here's this most enlightening article that the right is now using to point fingers at the left.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/bp/html/bp110/bp110index.html
I have a few contentions.
His view is that government policy like the Community Reinvestment Act of 77 distorted financial housing markets.
Right off the bat the argues that that greed doesn't ( Read more... ) -
i went to paris for a night
I was in Paris for one night last month. I only stopped in to buy cheese for my boyfriend which I knew I could get vacuum packed and sneak thoruhg cutoms with unscathed. This is worth it because imported cheese at whole foods is expensive. I decided to stay the night and have dinner with an old friend from college. Dragging my suitcase through teh ( Read more... )
