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Eulogy for America
An interesting counterpoint to 4th of July celebrations:
Eulogy for America, published in Pravda, no less.
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Just an observation
While reading this article in the New York Times this afternoon, a single sentence stood out:
Diagnoses of autism have risen sharply in recent years, from roughly 1 case for every 10,000 births in the 1980's to 1 in 166 births in 2003.In my mind, there were two major changes in our commercial food supply that occurred roughly around 1980. The ( Read more... ) -
I fixed up the laptop
Or should I say, I drove in circles around the bomb squad until I could get to Mr. Notebook ( Read more... ) -
Corn syrup?
For those of you who have been standing around on one foot waiting to read a short history of how and why we came to be consuming so much of it, here it is ( Read more... ) -
The View from Canada
After reading this letter for the third or fourth time, I decided it was too good not to post. Lloyd Axworthy is a former Canadian foreign minister who minced no words in skewering the Bush administration's continued support of the missile "defense" program (you know, the one where they have to fake the results to prove it 'works'?) via this letter ( Read more... ) -
Laycie turns 20!!
Happy birthday, laycielove!! You're not a teenager anymore! Hope you do something really fun on your birthday (and hope no one catches you at it!!)