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Is anyone else out there dumbfounded that time at the last Republican 'debate' was spent on asking the doofuses if they believe that...

Looking over recent posts, I see that I have tended to emphasize the pessimistic side of Life on Earth. I was going to offer a few encouragi...

yikes - can he possibly get away with this? Meanwhile, the clock keeps ticking . As we are deluged with Christmas advertising, which propa...

The last 2 of our 4 kittens just left. Two of them were picked up yesterday, from our craigslist ad. We've had these kittens for just u...

We survived the Day, working pretty continuously from 8 am until chow-time. Everything went off perfectly - Karen now feels she is the Mast...

no, not the incessant cold rain of the past three days, but this .

first this , then oil, and then it's 1929 all over again! We'll be able to tell our grandchildren (in a creaky voice), "why I r...

My geek-friend Dave told me about this last night, surprised that I had not yet heard about it. Today, I reconfigured my DSL Router to hit ...

We spent most of the morning moving furniture around, polishing wood, washing windows, setting up tables and chairs, and finalizing the menu...

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positively Rovian

saw a reference to this site on the CBS Evening News. Incredibly enough, it told me that Dennis reflects 90% of my views, more than any oth...

yea ! As everyone here knows, Vidal is my candidate for the greatest American writer of these times (Vonnegut comes in 2nd).

I received this fund-raising solicitation from the National RNC, in the guise of a survey. It was full of pseudo-official bullshit, like th...

Great film - tense and intelligent, with effective cinematography, a tight script, and believable acting. George Clooney knows what he'...

Al Gore on ' 30 Rock '. I've never seen the show, but if this is an example of the writing and acting, I should tune in.

...will NOT be posted here, until I get you to look at this . I had heard about this book a few weeks ago and got it from our library. Just...

Just heard about this outrage. Goodbye, human rights in America. The lights are going out.

We are back in sunny, mild Portland, after a week cruising around the Caribbean, sampling the sun, heat, humidity, rain, jungles, caves, thi...

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