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This Moved Me
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Mark Twain wrote something that struck me right down to my core...something so powerful, so true, that it changed my life. I memorized it so I could repeat it to myself, over and over across the years. He wrote --"In a republic, who is the country?"
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Why I Can't Bring Myself to Hate Obama
My family and the one conservative friend I have seethe with fury over Obama. And their reasons are sound. His spending is off the charts. He immediately re-commenced funding stem cell research even though there are strong indications of its imminent irrelevancy to science. He went to Europe and kissed so much ass that he gave "first black ( Read more... ) -
Should I Report This Punk, and to Whom?
I'm driving to work this morning and there is a VERY reckless driver on the road with me. Not just a little bit. Excessive speeds and obscene levels of lane-swerviness is the norm in Nashville, but this guy is taking it to a whole new level. He is going to kill somebody.
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It's Time for Geeks to Grow Up
When it first started, it was all about the irony, the cuteness, and the nostalgia. People bought up 80’s Star Wars t-shirts from thrift stores until they started making fake ones. They bought up cult classics in the droves. The cornier, the better. There was a sudden revolution in celebrating simplicity.
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BSG Finale
The last two seasons of Battlestar Galactica have kind of gone adrift. Even Moore admits he'd written himself into corners and had planted several plot devices with no real resolution of them in mind ( Read more... ) -
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Rush Limbaugh has been irrelevant for the past eight years. Suddenly a Democrat is president and everyone is bitching about him again. Why does Democratic relevance suddenly make a conservative ideologue relevant ( Read more... ) -
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Copied from an e-mail I just received:
Subject: Confirmation of ticket purchase at www.delta.com
From: support@delta.com
As you can see, there are none of the usual indicators of spam or Trojan e-mails. The spelling is all correct, and the “from” address looks legit.
Thanks for the purchase!
Booking number: Z2BGT9T
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thndrstd recommended a website called www.sparkpeople.com from tracking calories. It has been eye-opening. Despite not feeling like I'm eating any less than usual (And despite going over the posted calorie limits twice), I lost another pound last week.
I've also garnered further insights into my general eating habits. Note that these are true for me, and ( Read more... ) -
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Welcome to the new system of president-led gerrymandering.
But what really scares me is not Obama taking over the census.
It is the deafening silence about it from the news media.
Imagine if Bush had put Karl Rove in charge of the census. Imagine the outrageous outcry on every news outlet.
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"Everyone in this chamber, Democrats and Republicans, will have to sacrifice some worthy priorities for which there are no dollars. And that includes me."
Excuse me? Didn't you just spend 800 BILLION dollars? An amount 300 billion larger than the whole cost of a half-decade war? An amount equaling $2,500 for every single American?
Shut up.