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“Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.” William Styron

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Martina Davis Correia - Rest In Peace“I want people to know that we didn’t fail. As long as we keep hammering away at this thing, as long as we refuse to give up, we haven’t failed. We’ll be doing what Troy would have wanted us to do. Our efforts made an impact and we’ll continue to make an impact.”Martina, the sister of Troy Anthony Davis, died December 1, 2011, 10 weeks after Troy was executed.

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"It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science."Harper's Magazine October 20, 2006Richard Dawkins is an Oxford professor and the author of a series of best-selling books that popularize a version of evolutionary theory. According to Dawkins, evolution is

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Published: October 14, 2011 The New York TimesA new Gallup poll reports that support for the death penalty is at its lowest level since 1972. In fact, though, the decline, from a high of 80 percent in 1994 to 61 percent now, masks both Americans’ ambivalence about capital punishment and the country’s de facto abolition of the penalty in most places.When Gallup gave people a choice a year ago

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Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed EMAIL PRINT SHARESHARE10Posted on Oct 26, 2011AP / Jay FinneburghIraq War veteran Scott Olsen, 24, lies bleeding in Oakland, Calif., after being struck by a projectile apparently fired by police. He suffered a skull fracture while marching with other demonstrators attempting to re-establish a presence near a protest camp disbanded by authorities, said

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Announcing the debut of LARB ePubs:Now available on the Amazon Kindle store for $4.99:A compilation of some of the best of the first six months of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Featured articles:Ben Ehrenreich on “the death of the book.”David Shields on the thin line between life and art.Geoff Nicholson on Buster Keaton, the Human Mop.Laurie Winer reads the novels of Glenn Beck (so you don't

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The Decade of Magical ThinkingSTEVE ALMOND BIO ↓ · September 9th, 2011 · filed under POLITICS, RUMPUS ORIGINALA Rumpus Lamentation on What We LostSay you took the long view of September 11, 2001, the view from the heavens, the view of a compassionate celestial being. From up there, you’d see that approximately 150,000 earthlings died that day. Most of these deaths were caused by malnutrition

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Pathologies of Hope by Barbara Ehrenreich,Harper's Magazine, February 1, 2007I hate hope. It was hammered into me constantly a few years ago when I was being treated for breast cancer: Think positively! Don't lose hope! Wear your pink ribbon with pride! A couple of years later, I was alarmed to discover that the facility where I received my follow-up care was called the Hope Center. Hope? What

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I Don't Believe in Athiests"I spent so long in war zones that I think we don't know what we would do under repression and abuse -- you know, if somebody killed my father. That's the brilliance of the great writers on the Holocaust, like Primo Levi and [Bruno] Bettelheim. They understood the humanity of their own killers. That line between the victim and the victimizer is razor-thin. We all carry

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No Justice in Kafka’s AmericaPosted on Jun 12, 2011 in TruthdigBy Chris HedgesIn Franz Kafka’s short story “Before the Law” a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the courts of justice. He sits outside the law court for days, months and years. He makes many attempts to be admitted. He sacrifices everything he owns to sway or bribe the stern doorkeeper. He ages, grows

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The Drug Pusher in Your Family RoomJun. 14 2011 Apple, Google, Electronic Arts, Zynga, Facebook, LinkedIn, Sony, Microsoft, Research In Motion (RIM), and Nintendo are all leveraging Darwin. And why not, when it makes for such good business?For 150,000 generations — 2.5 million years — humankind has been evolving in physical space. In the process, evolution designed our brain chemistry to deal

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Decided to change my template. More changes than I'd imagined. The huge header is disconcerting so I am trying to figure out how to downsize it. Biggest change is that my hit counter disappeared so I'm starting from scratch on the hit counts. Before switching templates, my blog had had 11,166 hits. Not too shabby although I suspect at least 80% of those hits were from people looking for a White

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when it all feels pointless. Sick of being lied to by the holier than thou crew. Not to mention the f-ing judgment. Look at me!! Look at me!! Sickening.

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How accurately do memoirs reflect the people who write them? Nic Sheff, our newest columnist, has a few thoughts on that. The 'Beautiful Boy' Grows UpI’m a writer.Or, I’m trying to be one.I mean, I’ve been trying since I was a little kid.It’s what I’ve always wanted to be.Honestly, I’m not even sure why that is exactly. My dad and mom are both writers—that is, journalists—so maybe that has

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I hold Alcoholics Anonymous in the highest regard. This said, I think it is acceptable, if not necessary, to address its contradictions and platitudes. I don't necessarily agree with everything Knox has to say but I appreciate it when anyone takes on a sacred cow and hope this post will be a catalyst for further conversation and critical thought. A.A.'s Most Annoying ClichesBy Justin Knox04/07/

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William is away, and I am mindingthe heavens. I have discoveredeight new comets and three nebulaenever before seen by man,and I am preparing an Index toFlamsteed's observations, together witha catalogue of 560 stars omitted fromthe British Catalogue, plus a list of erratain that publication. William saysI have a way with numbers, so I handleall the necessary reductions andcalculations. I also

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I live my life in growing orbitsWhich move out over the things of the world.Perhaps I can never achieve the last,but that will be my attempt.I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,and I have been circling for a thousand years,and I still don’t know if I am a falcon,or a storm, or a great song.~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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more fun the gang at McSweeneys (if you are offended by the setting here, keep reading)ARSE POETICA.BY MIKE SACKS AND TEDDY WAYNE- - - -Thanks for having me over and listening to my movie pitches. When my fiction-writing classmates at the Iowa Writers' Workshop heard I was headed to Los Angeles to make it as a screenwriter, they called me a sellout. But if "selling out" implies meeting with

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Rick Moody is one of the most celebrated American writers of his generation. His work includes four novels; Garden State, The Ice Storm, Purple America, and The Diviners, as well as three collections of short fiction, The Ring of Brightest Angels around Heaven, Demonology, and Right Livelihoods. His first novel, Garden State, won the Pushcart Editor’s Choice award and his memoir, The Black Veil,

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Primate scientist Jane Goodall said on Wednesday the race to grow crops for vehicle fuels is damaging rain forests in Asia, Africa and South America and adding to the emissions blamed for global warming. "We're cutting down forests now to grow sugarcane and palm oil for biofuels and our forests are being hacked into by so many interests that it makes them more and more

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Jack's Top 100 Country Songs of All Time - the first 101. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, HankJimmie Rodgers put Country Music on a train out in the sticks. It stepped off that train at the downtown station with Hank Williams and went to Main Street. The lyrics of this song, without accompaniment could be a 19th Century pastoral shepherd's lament. The imagery is complex while the words remain simple

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and the south.

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Ralph Foster Museum - Beverly Hillbillies Car Point Lookout, MissouriThe Ralph Foster Museum is on the campus of the College of the Ozarks, a private Christian school. Known locally as "The Smithsonian of the Ozarks," the museum was named for Foster even though Foster wasn't involved with it until the 1960s, four decades after it had begun as a bird collection in a men's dormitory basement. Ralph

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DNA Exonerates Man After 25 Years in PrisonOn parole since March 2006, he is now freed of 'sex offender' label Updated: 6 minutes agoCHICAGO - After spending 25 years in an Illinois prison for rape, Jerry Miller was found innocent Monday after DNA evidence showed he was not responsible for the 1981 attack.To date over 200 individuals in the United States have been exonerated because of DNA

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The Pulitzer Pauseby NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN[from The Nation, April 20, 2007]They handed out the Pulitzer Prizes for journalism the other day. All the recipients seem meritorious enough, but the worthies who chose the winners should not have bothered; 2007 ought to have been a year without prizes. Call it the Pulitzer Pause. The special occasion when American journalism ceased, for one twelve-month

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An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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from the BBCUS 'Iran attack plans' revealedUSS John C Stennis is being deployed to the Persian GulfUS contingency plans for air strikes on Iran extend beyond nuclear sites and include most of the country's military infrastructure, the BBC has learned.It is understood that any such attack - if ordered - would target Iranian air bases, naval bases, missile facilities and command-and-control

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Well, I have a big problem with this new blogger. I have no scroll bar on the right side of my screen which makes it impossible for me to check in on any of the links near the bottom of my list. And let's face it, unless we have a readership like the DailyKoz most of us are probably the only ones who ever give our own links more than a quick glance or two. Link owners no doubt check out those of

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The WeightI once fell in love w/ a man mostly because he included this song & the Chicken Chokers on the same mixed tape.

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Steve Earle, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Tribute to Gram Parsons

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Well, I figured if One Ring Zero cold geek out, as they put it, and do myspace then, why not me? Truth is I've had an account with them since 2005 I've just never done anything with it. I've added a link on here to my space "space". It's kind of fun. Just about everyone is on there and catching up w/ people you haven't seen in a long time is a blast - as is friend-ing with favorite local

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what a day....what a day. Dear Miss Molly have a wonderful journey, leaving shoes and cares behind. Thanks for being a strong, out-spoken, completely unapologetic southern broad. excerpted from Kelley Shannon, Associated Press Writer AUSTIN, Texas - Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, the sharp-witted liberal who skewered the political establishment and referred to President Bush as "

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One of my fondest memories (besides doing the sun salutation in the parking lot of a Waffle House) of a trek to Fort Benning 5 years ago was having breakfast on Sunday morning w/ Laura and Erica. At a table nearby were three women dressed to the nines and who appeared to be in their seventies. One leaned over to our table and whispered, "Are you girls here for the protest?" When we answered in

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from today's Art Forum Gossip link. by Rhonda Lieberman. Check out the picture - nice to see the Guerilla Girls in action. I was just referencing them!Friday I attended the first half of a two-day symposium at MoMA on “The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts.” The sold-out Roy and Niuta Titus Theater was packed with vintage women artists, as well as chroniclers, comrades, and

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Cash! Carl! Clapton!rock-n-roll sunday school.

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According to the terms of a lawsuit settlement reached with 12 angry readers of A Million Little Pieces, hell-hath-no-fury-like-an-Oprah-scorned author/victim James Frey and his publisher, Random House, have agreed to pay $2.35 million -- to "cover the cost of refunding customers, the lawyers' fees for both sides and a yet-to-be-specified donation to charity." Non-litigious readers are also

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by Juan Martinez The lead singer should really stick to the part where he sings and not come right up to me. I'm the guitar player, and I know that this is pretty much standard rock-and-roll practice, but it is distracting. It is hindering my ability to perform my guitar-playing duties. Because it isn't like I was ever, like, into dancing—like having this really intense moment where the singer is

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I had a lovely and amazing thing happen today. I've been recovering from the rather dreary circumstance of having contracted a bit of frost bite on three toes. No real drama to that story - just the inevitable circumstance of being a pedestrian in winter in the Midwest. Well, one with apparently not so great poor circulation that is. Anyway, I was having lunch with my friend Ann today and I

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...I could send a picture of that spoon to someone and have them know just exactly what I mean. ...given word is often shortly followed by the image. ...quite find it but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. ...is a danger to the democracy that we hold so dear. ...an architect, insisted that he should become a scientist like his brother. ...characters

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Menopause at 30 for Millions in Povertyby Jeremy Page Millions of women in India are going through the menopause as young as 30 because of chronic malnutrition and poverty, according to a study by a prominent Indian think-tank. The research suggests that almost one in five women in the country have gone through the menopause by the age of 41. Malnutrition is believed to be a contributory

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Richard Thompson - I Misunderstoodpheww.

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Thanks for the kitty cat link.

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Here is a sneak preview of my interview with Christopher Merrill which will be in the February issue of the Iowa Source. Enjoy.CHRISTOPHER MERRILL’s books include four collections of poetry, among them, Watch Fire, for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; translations; several edited volumes; and three books of nonfiction, The Grass of

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I was just skipping around the internet looking for volunteer opportunities. I was checking out the Table to Table website. Table to Table is topnotch organization that collects food from grocery stores, food warehouses, restaurants and local farms (primarily the organic ones) that for one reason or another can no longer be sold or served and redistributes it to local non-profits that feed the

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AuthorViews: A Prayer LostThere are times in your life when what you really need is a cute, Romanian Jew to tell you that you are "really, really, beautiful" and know he means it. I've got your back for that one, Corpse boy.

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Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place - Naive Melody"cover up the blank spots, hit me on the head"

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Warren Zevon Enjoy every sandwich. God, I love this man.

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One Ring Zero "Blessing"bless please the people in art galleries, lonely as a distant train"

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One Ring Zero "MC""We reject your rejection, Mr. Chabon."

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Steve Earle - Hard-core Troubadourdoing community service. song about bruce.

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A new friend asked me recently to describe what I did during my time as a political organizer. I've not written much about my past and quite diverse work life. An older friend once described me as "veiled", an adjective I was surprised by because my perception of myself is more like a sufferer of social tehret's (sp?)- a woman who offers too much out of the conversational starting gate and,

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X w/ Ray Manzarek interviewGreat footage of Exene (for a change!). John Doe and Viggo Mortensen have great taste in women. And, she, in men - lawsuits aside - sheeesh.

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X - Fourth of JulyOne of my all time favorite songs.

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John Doe talks about The KnittersNot nearly long enough but enjoy...

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hotel yorba I'm so tired of acting tough....

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http://www.scotland.imeem.com/video/DyHR-nFp/1952_vincent_black_lightning/hey, sorry - for some reason when I put links in here they do not become "clickable". If you dig Thompson, it is well worth the effort to cut & paste this address into your address field or...Click the link on my page to the New Just for Fun Meg Blog. This video is up and running over there.See ya'.p.s. Thank you, thank you

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The death count of Iraqi civilians is now estimated to be between 600,000 and 650,000. Monday saw the number of American military deaths top 3,000. Think about that for a moment. Really think about it.In 2002 there was only one presidential candidate who ran on a platform of ending the invasion of Iraq immediately - Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). Consequently, Rep. Kucinich had at that time and,

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A word is deadWhen it is said,Some say.I say it justBegins to liveThat day. - Emily Dickinson

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Dear Aaronzruiel,I have no earthly (!) idea if you are still out there tripping upon my blog on occasion but if you are, thank you for the wake up call. The dawn is slowly rising and it's more than a little bit beautiful - WOW. Please accept my apologies for being a wee bit peckish with you. I have a rather unfortunate habit of doing this with the very people who are doing what I most need -

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Supreme Court Justice John "Awe Shucks, Who Me" Roberts (speaking of faux mid-western humility) seems to have found an important issue to work on. He's got himself in a tizzy over the fact that fededral judges like himself are not getting paid as well as deans and law professors at the nations "top" schools. Openly disdainful of the concept of SERVICE - a principle such appointed positions were

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European Union, Pope and Most of the World Denounce Saddam's KillingMedia ReleaseDec. 30, 2006The European Union on Saturday condemned the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.The execution of Saddam Hussein is a ‘tragic’ event that risks fomenting a spirit of vendetta and sowing new violence in Iraq, the Vatican said on Saturday."A capital punishment is always tragic news, a reason

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I was just trying to link up with the Southern Poverty Law Center (an all time favorite organization) from the IT site and here's the message I received:Holy Watermelons, Batman! File Not FoundThe requested URL was not found on this server. But, you have found Jesus.Go to Identity Theory.I have a link for them. Check it out. Find Jesus.

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It never fails. I always get sick this time of year. I have what I have come to refer to as the "whoop ass flu" - a term I stole, as a matter of fact, from Mary Gaitskill's husband, Peter Trachtenberg, who used this once in an email he wrote from St. Petersburg. Right about now I'm wishing I had been even more sympathetic.Lucky for me Laura is in town and came over with ibuprofen, popsicles (bomb

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"Repeat it often enough and it becomes the truth." - Noam Chomsky

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Yesterday I lunch w/ a gaggle of guys and, Nikki, a women who is probably about 20 years younger than me. At one point, John - a marginal friend -was orchestrating the line at the counter and prompting me to move ahead of Nikki. His comment was "Come on, Meg, age before beauty." Admittedly, I was bothered by it at the time. John, for what it's worth, is about 20 years older than me. Fortunately

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"I realized that sexism and violence were real issues and I felt like I could make a difference." - filmmaker Byron Hurt who began questioning the messages he was getting in hip-hop after being hired to work with male athletes on gender violence issues.by Erik EckholmCHICAGO — Byron Hurt takes pains to say that he is a fan of hip-hop, but over time, says Mr. Hurt, a 36-year-old filmmaker,

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"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." - Pat Robertson

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WASHINGTON, DC Citing the need to safeguard "America's most vital institutions and politicians" against potentially devastating attacks, President Bush asked Congress to sign off on a $30 billion funding package to help fight the ongoing War On Criticism when it resumes next year. "Sadly, the threat of criticism is still with us," Bush told members of Congress in a red-flagged email today. "We

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Yes! No!How necessary it is to have opinions! I think the spotted trout lilies are satisfied, standing a few inches above the earth. I think serenity is not something you just find in the world, like a plum tree, holding up its white petals. The violets, along the river, are opening their blue faces, like small dark lanterns. The green mosses, being so many, are as good as brawny. How important

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by Norman SolomanWhen Colin Powell endorsed the Iraq Study Group report during his Dec. 17 appearance on "Face the Nation," it was another curtain call for a tragic farce.Four years ago, "moderates" like Powell were making the invasion of Iraq possible. Now, in the guise of speaking truth to power, Powell and ISG co-chairs James Baker and Lee Hamilton are refueling the U.S. war effort by

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Had to share this picture of Mary fishing in Oman. What a catch. When I lost my house 5 years ago, Mary, who had never actually made my acquaintence offered me a place to stay (an ex beau told her of my dilema.) We've been friends ever since. When I emailed her this morning she was online downloading a recipe of mine from the Iowa Source website and she lives in the Middle East now! Love it when

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Just a quick note to let my loyal readers (!?) know that the link to The Copy Exchange is back. Check it out. In addition to the groovy news feed and timely PC(hey, the term still implies integrity to me) headline info, there are now some wonderful "historic Seiberling family photos". Frank, is that THE grandfather?? And who told you I had moved to Alaska???Oh, the link to Human Rights Watch is

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I was just reading a review of the new ego-fest from Mel Gibson (a very unflattering one) and it refered to his last film, The Passion of the Christ. I just about lost my friggin' mind. Damn, damn, I am nutcan. I recently updated my profile and added some movies. One of my all time favorite flicks is the Scorsese (sp?) masterpiece The Last Temptation of Christ - a film worthy of being italicized

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Here are my youngest nieces, Isabelle & Grace respectively. They performed in The Nutcracker last week in Baltimore with the ABT. I love 'em - they are feisty girls.

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Listening to the personal narrative of another human being is how we learn to experience empathy for another.

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yokono

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So lately I've been just posting things others have written mostly because I don't have so much to say. I'm reading A LOT but I have not gotten to the point where I feel as if I have distilled any of it into anything worth saying. It's Laura's birthday which means tomorrow it is mine - and Kelly's. Also, Beethoven, Jane Austen and Margaret Mead were all born on 12/16 and it is the anniversary

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i thank You God for most this amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing

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God wants you to have a really big house in Hawaii.According to best-selling author and Texas-based spiritual leader Joel Osteen (“Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential”) it’s our own thoughts that condemn us to a life of mediocrity. In his current book, he tells a story of a husband and wife on vacation in Hawaii. The husband looks up at a huge mansion on a hill

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There is a new woman in group. Her name is Bila (pronounced Bee - lah) and I like her. She's no nonesense. When this other chick started talking about how her baby's father had kicked her in the stomach when she was pregnant but she wanted to get back with him Bila said, "Hey, if he kick the baby once, what you think he gonna do when that baby start to crying." Later on the woman said she was

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"We spend jillions in this country to make ourselves "normal," but since nobody knows what that is, the money really just goes to make us weirder." - Codrescu

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The first time my mother tried a Combo she smiled and said, "Excellent, fresh out of the testube!" Make sense?Reduced Fat Sour Cream and Onion Pringlesby Jesse AdelmanWhen I bite down on a thin piece of metal—a paper clip, pen nib, knife blade, or tinfoil scrap—it feels like tiny magnetic ants are burrowing into my jaw through my gums. The sensation is uncomfortable but also appealing and

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This little ditty almost beat out "Twas the Night Before Christmas" in a contest to select an official American Christmas poem. Sort of like how "Eat Cheese or Die" almost beat out "America's Dairyland" to be the official license plate slogan for the state of Wisconsin. Go figure.- - - -HO HOBY ALLEN GINSBERG (Frank Gannon)Wear your red suit and your bootsAnd that repulsive white beardWith the

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click on the little "x" - sweet!(also check out the piece on uber-producer jim dickinson also in pop culture press issue #56. dickinson also produces boister - aka "anne & the boys")

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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." -Max Planckor as John H says "You only see the world you make."'nuff said.

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I've come home to good news. Groovy gal pal, Lisa, had an essay in The New York Times Magazine on Sunday. Here is the link to the "Modern Love" column:http://www.nytimes.com/pages/style/index.htmlOne comment on th essay, for those who choose to read it, that's a pretty big IF she's asking at the end. Boy oh girl, am I happy to be home. Did I actually complain about my bed on this blog a few

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I'm taking off for a while gang. I leave you with this from the superoptimist gang.New Official Slogan for 2007 announced!At the recent International Council of Superoptimists meeting which took place over the last weekend in Calgary, Canada, a new all-purpose optimistic slogan was adopted as the official slogan for the year 2007.“I can handle it!”The slogan “I can handle it!” is exactly the kind

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I've added a few links. The new headliner (Jackson Katz!) is dedicated to the resident who responded to a patient revealing to him this morning that she had been raped by saying "only one time". I care about the patient involved very much and have not judged her to be an exaggerator in any way. In fact, she is refreshingly honest and direct.I very calmly addressed him about his response and he

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CORMAC MCCARTHY WRITES TO THE EDITOROF THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN.BY JOHN KENNAN - - - -Dear Editor, I enjoyed reading the article on Tuesday about putting a traffic light by the interchange of Castillo and Grand Streets. I aint know nothing about politics, but I seen too many cars hit too many light poles over the years. A man gets weary of it. Just yesterday, my wife said be careful at that stop

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Put On Your Happy Pie!It’s a documented fact that during the Fall and Winter, the decreased amount of sunlight can lead some people to feel kind of “down” or “dopey” or “lethargic.” It’s called “seasonal affective disorder” or SAD. And the direct opposite of a state of mind called “superoptimistic.” What’s not so readily known to many SAD sufferers is that a very simple thing can relieve many of

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Panhandler: I am a Vietnam veteran. I cannot work due to the effects of Agent Orange. Agent Orange was used in Vietnam to kill all the vegetarians.--Uptown R train Overheard by: Goueznou

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So, I'm on a new thing I call System 12. What you do is, you cut your hair short. Then, at night before going to bed, you turn the air conditioning in the bedroom on to full blast. While that's getting up to speed, you go take a really hot shower. Then you go to bed in the cold air conditioning. While you sleep, the evening's combination of extreme environments forms what I refer to as a lockdown

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I think the real problem is a little more complicated but I like the simplicity of this argument and do not disagree w/ the premise on a certain level.The Real Problem is That it is Illegal for One Country to Invade Another Country By Linda McQuaig Much has changed in the way the mainstream media deal with the war in Iraq. Most commentators now acknowledge the war is a disaster and will hurt

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I up and erased my template. All you regulars will be back. Just going a little slow.Love. Love. Love.

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