Rants

When I need to vent before I kick someone.

I’ve been known to bite, too.

Sooo Frustrating…

Lately I’ve been talking a lot about my friends and fellow writers.  But today I’ve realized something.  They don’t place nearly the priority I do on writing.  I ask what they’re doing this weekend, and writing is last on the list, not first.  It’s the “get to it if I can” thing.  And we all […]

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Yesterday’s special was the kind man who got me my car back.  Clearly the good.  I’ll leave you to decide today’s feature. This morning I got a call from the Welcome Center, the district office to help people with things I can’t.  The legalities of guardianship, establishing residency, et cetera.  A parent had attempted to

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Take Back Your Poor

Quoting from this site: Frist initially advanced a bill largely limited to border security. He then embraced Bush’s concept of a broader measure including provisions relating to illegal immigrants. But in doing so, he left behind GOP conservatives, who see the measure as offering amnesty to lawbreakers. Because, of course, no Republican has ever broken

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Apples and Oranges

Quoting from this site: Dunleavy (chairman of St Patrick’s Day parade in NYC) set off a firestorm this week when he told the newspaper: “If an Israeli group wants to march in New York, do you allow Neo-Nazis into their parade? If African Americans are marching in Harlem, do they have to let the Ku

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Think You've Got Problems?

Quoting from this site: East Africa’s prolonged drought has dried up rivers in Tanzania and left some 3.7m people on the verge of starvation, with much of the country experiencing daytime power cuts as hydroelectric plants are short of water. You haven’t even heard about this, have you?  It wasn’t in any of the headlines

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This is News?

You’ve heard of the teacher who made a classroom comparison between President Bush’s State of the Union address and speeches made by Adolf Hitler?  Or actually, you’ve probably heard, “Teacher compares Bush to Hitler” and not much more.  That was all I got, until I went looking. Quoting from this site: On the recording, Bennish

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Horrible!

Quoting from this site: In the abstract for their presentation to the 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center summarized the implant in the following way: NUWC is developing a fish tag whose goal is attaining behavior control of host animals via neural implants. This talk discusses a shark tag

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