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Sunday, May 09, 2010

Get back, get back, get back to where you never were.

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Holly contemplates the dual-income household: The problem here is that I didn't make some big feminist choice to go to work; no one gav...
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This is just like that documentary with Daryl Hannah!

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A study of mitochondrial DNA a few years back stated that Neanderthals probably had not mated with our H. sap. sap. forebears. Having know...
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Overheard in the Hallway:

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RX: "Eric Holder's on TV, with an expression on his face like he's passing kittens." Me: " That's his default e...
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Saturday, May 08, 2010

Things and stuff.

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Went grocery shopping with roomie this morning and then to lunch at Shalimar . Mmmm... Indian food. My right knee and lower back/hip are bot...
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Void Where Prohibited.

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Unintentional funny: A publisher sticks a bit o' warning boilerplate by way of a frontispiece into older books that may not " refle...
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Same old story, same old song and dance.

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So, as you may have heard, the Indiana GOP machine, an organization so dense that a black hole would float on it, in its infinite obtuseness...
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2 + 2 = 1984

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Imagine a not-too-distant future, where a businessman gets jacked on taxes or some petty regulation or another. He makes some unkind comment...
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Friday, May 07, 2010

Explains rather a lot, really...

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In light of our fabulous education system, run by the same people who can't get a letter across town in a timely fashion and who have tu...
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A rant of beauty is a joy for... well, for a good long while.

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So, I made mention of the little TSA-related contretemps in Miami this morning. Stingray at Atomic Nerds then picked up the ball and ran ...
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Random Thoughts:

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How do you throw away a trash can? Do you get bonus points if you die without ever reading a Twilight book? How about never seeing a Spider...
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Lending a whole new meaning to "Security Theater".

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Security theater went from Kabuki to Punch and Judy this week in Miami, when a TSA groper-in-training got a little out of hand . It seems th...
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Today In History: Stuff.

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On this date in: 1429: Jeanne d'Arc pulls an arrow from her own shoulder and charges back into the fighting, thereby earning promotion t...
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Overheard in Roomie's Bedroom:

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Roomie's televisor has, like it does every morning, cut on at a bajillion decibels to serve her as an alarm clock... Morning Traffic Lad...
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Thursday, May 06, 2010

It lends a whole new meaning to "Hole In One".

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Sometimes you don't even need to click on the headline to get all you need out of the story: In addition to sand traps and water hazards...
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Be aware of the walking dead.

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Have you noticed emaciated figures shambling through your yard? Does the stench of the crypt pervade your neighborhood? Is your best friend ...
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How many of the Four Rules can you break at once?

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A Hamilton, OH police officer (ED: Oops! Misread story.) resident broke two and put a bullet through his groin . Maybe he was practicing P...
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Technicolor crazy in 3D with surround sound.

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Apparently America's most famous self-loathing closeted gay man made his bones as a civil rights lawyer back in the day in Topeka. Huh....
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Any volunteers?

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So, Matt Lauer, morning clothes horse on NBC, is talking to some terrorism expert about the dude who tried to set off the bomb in The Only ...
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Ye gods and great big fishies.

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I have mentioned before my weakness for stirring up a little bit of salmon salad for a snack, using honey mustard, sweet relish, mayo, and ...
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Irony, thy name is MSNBC.

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Contessa Brewer was hoping that the Times Square "bomb" hadn't been planted by an Islamic terrorist for fear that it would fu...
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