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Summer Wind – NYT
I liked this story, Summer Wind. It’s calming, peaceful, and evokes images of the rural lifestyle it describes. It’s a vignette, really, not a story, article or column. Just a quick view of a place in...
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Online Trolls Haunt the Internet
I’d heard and basically understood the term “troll” for a long time, but this long NYT magazine article, The Trolls Among Us, provided an enlightening look at the underside of human behavior with...
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Hail: Winter in August
I’ve never been in such a furious hailstorm before. My little cottage is literally getting pounded by hail that ranges in size from marbles to golf balls (really, I am not exagerrating). Wind is...
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THIS is where Sarah Palin comes from!
The Daily Show skewers fools like no one else, and the Vice-Presidential Debate was rich raw material for their talents. I recommend checking out all they did about that, but to me the best thing they...
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You Know You Have Dead Mice When…
the D-Con you stored under the kitchen sink is gone. I had two packages of D-Con still in the box under the sink, but when I went to get them out I found that mice had chewed through the box and eaten...
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Me Make Fire
I feel I am getting back to my primitive roots. I am learning to use fire to keep warm, just as human beings learned to do so many thousands of years ago. I am trying to heat my house with wood as much...
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Facebook in a Crowd
I enjoyed this confessional article, Facebook in a Crowd. Hal Neidzviecki writes about having 700 Facebook friends at the same time that the number of his in-person friends is declining. So, he decided...
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Phillies Win World Series Game 3, I Think
I watched the Phillies win game three of the World Series last night and this morning, sort of. It started so late (10pm ET) that I kept falling asleep on the couch. And Comcast committed an...
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Housing Crisis Explained, Clearly and Simply
Like many people, I’ve been somewhat unclear exactly how we ended up with such a mess in the mortgage and housing market. I certainly grasped the broad outlines — people got greedy and made loans to...
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PlentyOfFish.com Sucks at Customer Service
Plenty of Fish Well, that’s a pretty blunt headline, isn’t it? This is one of the reasons I like having a blog: I have a platform to complain LOUDLY about companies that do wrong. This is what my old...
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