It appears that some people are starting to take their virtual ‘lives’ a bit too seriously.

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Online divorcee jailed after killing virtual hubby

By MARI YAMAGUCHI (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
October 23, 2008 9:35 AM EDT

TOKYO - A 43-year-old Japanese piano teacher’s sudden divorce ( Read more... )

Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test...
Conscientious, Fulfilled, and Spiritual

14 Renaissance, 5 Islamic, -4 Ukiyo-e, -24 Cubist, -21 Abstract and 10 Impressionist!


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I was driving to work this morning and heard a Barack Obama campaign ad that talked about how John McCain was quoted by a Washington Post reporter as saying he would “hate to live in Milwaukee.”

So of course when I got to the office I hopped on Google to investigate.

Apparently the article was written in 2004 - you can read it here. The comment ( Read more... )

My aunt Nancy is a nurse in southern Illinois. My Dad said she was telling him that she recently had her first patient with gallbladder cancer (what my Mom had). The woman has had it for 10 months, is in excruciating pain and will die ( Read more... )

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
  - Ellen Goodman

My best friend Roy always comes up with colorful alternatives to cliched phrases, often without even realizing it.

Tonight, he was telling me that I should read David Copperfield to him in the car while we drive to Chicago tomorrow to see Kathy Griffin. (He has to read it for his gay book club -- oh, sorry, his work book club. He's on the phone with ( Read more... )

In my earlier post about the death penalty, I lied. There is one instance in which I am more than in favor of execution.

When someone kills a child.

If they discover that woman killed her own child, then the bitch should fry.

I'm very much on the fence about the death penalty. I don't feel like prison does a good job of rehabilitating inmates in order to make them productive members of society once they are released (which would probably go a long way in reducing the number of people on death row in the first place), but at the same time, I don't want tax dollars paying ( Read more... )

Lifted from katylin:

Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with your picture.


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