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Top Comments: You kids better behave or I'll call The Police.
Many parents use fear to gain compliance from their children. It's the oldest trick in the book, right?If you aren't good Santa won't bring your presents... If you talk back to me one more time...
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Anti-Vaxxers Speak!
Mmmmmmm, rubella. As we watch the efforts of anti-vax cultists bear fruit in real time, I thought a peek into their world might be worth while. I know many of us have heard the anti-vax arguments...
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To the Dad of the Boy who abandoned his bike.
To the Dad of the Boy who abandoned his bike, This morning kind of sucked. I stayed up too late playing online and when my alarm went off at six I hit that snooze button twice. My allergies are in full...
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Top Comments: #HappyValentinesDay from the Federal Government
Anyone else out there not in love with Valentines Day? Yeah, that's what I thought. I won't rehash the Why of it, we all know why. Instead, how about a random excursion around Twitter using Valentines...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Leap Seconds Will Take the World Hostage!
Driving home from the rheumatologist this afternoon I was listening to Here and Now out of WBUR in Boston where Robin Young was holding a conversation with Demetrios Matsakis, chief scientist for Time...
View ArticleI thought my MacBook was thirsty for delicious coffee
Turns out it was me who was thirsty and the MacBook was simply trying to tell me "NO! No coffee!" Now I understand that MacBooks are lactose intolerant and possibly pre-diabetic. So much for loving the...
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Disconnected in Tel Aviv.
The hardest in a long string of lessons learned while travelling in Israel was, at its core, a fundamental truth of Life:Don't piss off The Operator. It seems obvious now, that not giving her what she...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Tasmanian artist desexualizes dolls for much...
Anyone else in need of refresh on humanity? Boy, I sure was today. So, when I came across this video story on Facebook from SBS2, an Australian news channel, it was truly welcome.My kids are boys who...
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WYFP? Basement Cat has left the building...
It is with a heavy heart and diminishing hope of recovery that I share with friends tonight the sad news about our beloved Radar, aka Basement Cat. He has gone missing.
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Top Comments: "Exclusively for white people" makes Austin feel uncomfortable.
"Exclusively for WHITE PEOPLE maximum of 5 colored customers colored BOH staff accepted sponsored by the City of Austin Contemporary Partition and Restoration Program"Someone has decided that this...
View ArticleWomen Drivers
Last night my kids had a sleepover with their best friend K who I call my third kid. She and my oldest have been friends since he was three and she was four. She's just the loveliest child. Last summer...
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¡ Basement Cat Returns !
Let me OUT! (as soon as I finish this can...) It is with great relief and a sense of determined accomplishment that I bring to friends and readers the news that Radar, aka basement cat, has been...
View ArticleWYFP? Tomorrow is my birthday.
Yup, tomorrow I turn 43 years old and that is a problem. Not because I am afraid of getting older or because I'm one of those people who broods about aging. In fact, I am largely enjoying my entry into...
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Italian surgeon to attempt first HUMAN HEAD TRANSPLANT!
In honor of Daily Kos taking a long nap and sort of getting a new head screwed on, here's something strange for you to take away to whatever second tier watering hole you choose to fill the void with....
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Top Comments: Spring Flora and Fauna in Austin, TX
Click to embiggen for extra closeatude. It's springtime in Austin and that's pretty nice. It isn't hot yet and nights and mornings are still cool for the most part. We have had a ton of rain in the...
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Houston Equal Rights Ordinance Upheld!
Sometimes common sense and equality actually wins in Texas.Today state District Judge Robert Schaffer is the voice of common sense and equality.Opponents of Houston's non-discrimination ordinance...
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Top Comments: Small Town News
AS I suspect is the case with other Kossacks, my writing career began as a teenager working for the High School newspaper. I wrote editorials that took politicians, administrators and other Powers That...
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View Article"We Celebrated That Mother in Baltimore."
"Now Are We Willing to Face Our Own Hypocrisy?" That is the question asked yesterday by Goldie Taylor, Senior Editor for Blue Nation Review. It's a harrowing essay, beautifully written and poignant. It...
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WYFP? Mauled by Basement Cat and a Hard Deadline.
SO, praise be to the Universe, we are "finished" moving. Finished is in quotes because it only applies to Phase I, or the transporting of objects from one domicile to another. Now we have entered...
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