Archive for August, 2008
Bill Kristol: Hillary’s
Category: News and Politics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RkEzhFWnXk
Did you see Hillary Clinton’s speech the other night? It was very well done. Well written, well delivered. There was strength and grace after months of not-so-gentile campaigning. And vicious, ignorant, sexist press coverage.
Hillary threw all of her support and mustered her supporters to work [...]
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Bartering sex for stuff or services
Category: Romance and Relationships
http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/08/25/sex….
While she was studying in Brazil during college, the one thing Stephanie Gerson longed to do before leaving was spend time in the thick of the Amazon rain forest. Unfortunately, she couldn’t find a tour that would take her past the forest’s edge.
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Darwin Moments
You ever do something stupid? So stupid it makes you wonder how the species manages to survive?
Like when I poked myself in the eye with a trash can. Yeh … I know. See. That’s just dumb.
That time I punctured a vein in my foot with a machete.
Or just now when I cut myself on [...]
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How many houses…
Expectation is the partner of disappointment.
CITY SNOBI called someone a city snob the other day. Jokingly, of course, but you know how sometimes you make a wisecrack and realize a pattern?
Now that I work in the city I’m learning a little bit about city life and city dwellers. There are a lot of [...]
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Exercise; Too Left for Obama; Drinking Age
I am so proud of myself. The new work location gives me access to new things. Given that I’m still occasionally doing the walking thing, being situated a few miles west of where I was before — now I’m in the area known as the Golden Triangle — puts [...]
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Tans & Hypocrisy
Down in South Carolina at the beach. Got me thinking.
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Beach towns are full of beautiful people. Of course, beautiful people tend to gravitate to beach towns. They can flaunt their beautiful bodies in the sun, meet other beautiful people. You know. Become life guards, maybe.
Beach towns are also full of [...]
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Check out this video:
“Skimboarding” at Myrtle Beach
The water is 70 degrees, I think. Maybe a little warmer. And after getting wet, you just want to go in a little further. Then a little more. And alligators are freshwater animals, right? So I can ignore the “Feeding alligators is illegal” warnings along the causeway. Right?
Anyway, Nephew [...]
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Victoria Skimboards World Championship 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qttdTweGHPQ
I’m on my way to buy a skimboard. It might even see the ocean. Any bets on which joint I’ll be dislocating?
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