Reality Bites, But Teens Don’t Suck

Good old reality, no longer nibbling at me quietly a mere brain swat away from recognition, but biting, into my wallet and daily news like the starving cockroach it is. With my favorite gas station posting a $4.09, reality is no longer nibbling, but biting. Teens though are are not …

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A quickie

I’ll be back in service tomorrow, a real nice oil change and unloading of a sack of papers should do it. Passing thoughts and cool things. I posted about his poster some time back, so here is Shepard Fairey – Obama’s On-the-Wall Endorsement From If not now, when can a …

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Happy Birthday Wombat

Patrick. Wondering what could I make, I thought of a cake, but you know I can’t bake. This is better for your sake. We must bask in the light of the few weeks a year in which we are the same age. Happy Birthday sweet esoteric wombat.

Congolese Women Need Our Help – Bloggers Unite

Blog Catalog teamed up with Amnesty International for Bloggers Unite For Human Rights, May 15th which is ….voila today. I was going to pass this one up until reading commentary on the web in which “self designated feminists” are going at each other over the endorsement of Obama by NRAL- …

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Never on Sunday – Nine Sundays Revisited

I was 6 years old when The Joan Shorenstein (Barone) Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (with Marvin Kalb as founding director) released a study/proposal which called for the press to take more seriously their responsibility in …

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Work, Friends, and so on.

Tomorrow, or today as it is now, I’m heading to a dour city, though I hear there is a casino, (probably only slots I’m not sure) to solicit support for an organization I belong to. A multi state district convention of a national civic organization is going to hear a …

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