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  • Behind the veil

    Nowhere Zen

    The French's government's recent announcement that they're considering banning the burka has, understandably, been met with a fair amount of controversy. I've been meaning to comment for a while now, so here's my take on it.First, the only strong con argument I can conceive of has to do with freedom [...]
    Posted: June 27, 2009, 2:49pm EDT
    by Stephanie
  • a young buck before the storm

    InMyDiatribe

    Number of comments: 2

    Yesterday evening, as I was talking to Viv, we spotted a young buck laying down in my Mom’s front yard. He wasn’t hurt, just laying down, head up. There was a nasty thunderstorm about to hit and I think he just thought he was in a safe place for the [...]

    Posted: June 27, 2009, 9:43am EDT
    by furiousBall
  • America’s Most Dangerous Sport?

    Support Your Local Gunfighter

    According to the brain surgeons at LiveScience, it’s cheerleading. Seriously. Cheerleading safety efforts have led to modest reductions in the number of serious injuries in recent years, according to a new report about college and high school sports and cheerleading mishaps. But cheerleading continues to cause more serious and deadly injuries by [...]
    Posted: June 27, 2009, 7:00am EDT
    by Wyatt Earp
  • Still raining tears...

    Katey's Kafe

    I can't sleep yet again. I have screwed up so bad and hurt and angered the man I love so much and the guilt is just killing me. And I have not a single person but myself to blame. After years of being with him, I really miss him terribly.[...]
    Posted: June 27, 2009, 3:18am EDT
    by kateykakes
  • TwitCrap

    White Lightning Axiom: Redux

    07:43 ben (annoying next door neighbor kid) kept me from getting the back lawn mowed ... Maybe it won't rain today ... suuurrrrrre # 07:46 meeting in 15 ... fridays, the meeting day of doom # 12:32 went out to lunch ... ugh, sliders have buggered up my' [...]
    Posted: June 27, 2009, 1:09am EDT
    by mdmhvonpa
  • CC: Simon's Coffee Shop

    Pure Coffee Blog

    Number of comments: 1
    'What's does "CC" mean? Subject: Simon's Coffee Shop Location visited: Cambridge, MAFree WiFi ? : yesRating: 6+ [see key]As much as I love Boston, I've never been good at navigating it. On my first trip there as "captain," I led my party of ten travelers quickly astray and ended up [...]
    Posted: June 26, 2009, 10:30pm EDT
    by Bill
  • Massive Tax Increase Passed House

    MidnightBlue

    We are screwed and so is the environment. An unread tax bill is forced on American citizens - again.
    In the meantime, the EPA has been found to have actively suppressed information that exposes the EPA's reliance on unverified data to support its greenhouse gas as a public endangerment issue. [...]
    Posted: June 26, 2009, 7:19pm EDT
    by Skye
  • Lessons from the Passing of the King of Pop

    PhiLAWdelphia

    These factors are quite applicable to professionals, including young lawyers, who may find themselves flux with a lot of money from their high incomes and overextend themselves with investments and purchases. Next thing you know, the high income may be reduced or possibly eliminated, and then expenses and debt arise. [...]
    Posted: June 26, 2009, 3:07pm EDT
    by John E.
  • Random tidbits

    Nowhere Zen

    Wow. I just saw that I was quoted in the editorial reviews section for a book on Amazon.com. I like these little virtual pats on the back. They reaffirm my contribution to the universe--which is, apparently, that I say nice things about people's products. I suppose that's a good start.I've' [...]
    Posted: June 26, 2009, 2:20pm EDT
    by Stephanie
  • Weekend Caption Contest

    Support Your Local Gunfighter

    Number of comments: 15
    Pout For Justice Caption Contest (Source: Reuters) Submit your original caption for this photo in the comments section, or e-mail me your photoshop entries. The winners will be announced on Monday June 29th. Good luck! Original Caption: U.S. President Barack Obama listens to questions during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing [...]
    Posted: June 26, 2009, 11:30am EDT
    by Wyatt Earp
  • Friday cooling break

    Just Between Strangers

    Man, it's gotten hot suddenly around here, I guess because the sun has somewhat emerged (after two months of clouds and rain), and the difference is a shock. Luckily for Speck, she has a little play sink in our back patio for splashing, slurping, playing in the running water, and [...]
    Posted: June 26, 2009, 10:34am EDT
    by ACM
  • A Russian Fog

    InMyDiatribe

    Enclosure: [download]
    Number of comments: 10

    This is so cool. So, a week ago, I got an email from someone with a .ru (Russian) email address requesting a 320kpb copy of my song “A Fog”. Because I’m a whore for attention and just love that my music is actually being listened to, I contact my buddy [...]

    Posted: June 26, 2009, 10:10am EDT
    by furiousBall
  • School daze

    Nowhere Zen

    Aha! This is my solution to listing the schools I want to apply to without making them show up in search results. Crafty, no? I started off making it so that the more interested I am, the larger the school name would appear, though some of them are slightly off. [...]
    Posted: June 26, 2009, 9:45am EDT
    by Stephanie
  • Cap And Trade Must Be Defeated!

    Support Your Local Gunfighter

    Number of comments: 13
    2ND UPDATE: It frakkin’ passed the House by 7 votes. And 8 scumbag, turncoat Republicans made it happen. Here are the names of the men and women who want to kill American businesses and take money from your families: Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) Mike Castle (R-DE) Mark Kirk (R-IL) Leonard Lance (R-NJ) Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) John [...]
    Posted: June 26, 2009, 7:00am EDT
    by Wyatt Earp
  • Michael Jackson, Dead At 50

    Support Your Local Gunfighter

    Number of comments: 14
    I am so trying not to snark about this. It does appear that the old adage about celebrities dying in threes came true this week. First Ed McMahon, then Farrah Fawcett, and now Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson, the show-stopping singer whose best-selling albums — including “Off the Wall,” “Thriller” and “Bad” [...]
    Posted: June 25, 2009, 8:00pm EDT
    by Wyatt Earp
  • Health Care Crisis Hits Home

    Brendan Calling

    Number of comments: 1

    Email from my girlfriend, received 5 minutes after posting about Steve Wells:

    My plan is changing again. If I were to stay with the same plan from last year the premium would be going up by 26.48%. My new options are a plan that goes up 21.19% and basically stays the [...]

    Posted: June 25, 2009, 10:51am EDT
    by Brendan

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