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Women, dogs. Recession. DC.
I haven't lived in DC in a decade, but each time I come back the first thing I notice is the men (often hot, military or politico types, or earnest young Mr. Smithies) and their intensity (some guy was painfully overtly reading The Brothers Karamazov on the Metro today--I guess it's safe to do that again here?) But the second thing I always notice ( Read more... ) -
Long overdue update and an open letter to Bill
Hi. I’ve been away for a while. Not physically gone: I just slipped into one of those periods where I haven’t felt the need to comment or respond on things lately (now is the summer of my discontent made glorious by Olympics and politics, Ledger and Bale). Facebook and my other writing have continued to suck up most of my free time, but I think my ( Read more... ) -
AIDS redux.
Lord have MRSA! The misinformation buzzing around about staph infections is making my boils burst. First, this article is released to the news media and now the fundamentalist right is claiming it's the new AIDS.
Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth (www.americansfortruth.org), issued the following statement in reaction to news ( Read more... ) -
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...how are we, our minds, going to change with the new internet, which has seduced a whole generation into its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging and blugging etc...Doris Lessing's acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in ( Read more... )
