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Express Yourself in 140 Characters or Less.

Blogging is dead! That’s right…it’s dead, gone, worthless to even consider starting your own blog and a complete waste of time if you already have one.
Yes folks, blogging is completely passé, it’s just sooo 2004 or that’s what Paul Boutin of Wired News would have you believe when you read his article, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook [...]

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Dear Julia, We Never Knew

There’s not much that happens these days that actually makes me waggle my hairy eyebrows but yesterday’s news about Julia Child made me not only waggle them, I actually read two full articles and today, the just released CIA report about her work in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII; the forerunner [...]

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Bush Buying Time for Big Oil?

This has got to be the most transparent move that the current Administration has pulled yet.

The Bush administration has put a two-year stop to solar energy projects on federal lands in Arizona and other Western states while it studies their environmental impact.
Source: Bush administration halts solar energy projects on federal lands: Phoenix Business Journal

Yeah right. [...]

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Watch Me Try and Shoot My Foot

And to think I used to live there. Oh wait…that’s typical of that area—I forgot.
NEW BEDFORD – A firearms instructor for the Bristol County Sheriff’s department has been given other duties after his gun accidentally discharged while he was teaching a class on weapons safety.
Officials say the Glock handgun went off while Maj. [...]

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It’s the Lottery’s Fault?

I read an article today in one of the local newspapers about the 30th anniversary of the Vermont lottery and the possibility of expanding the lottery in various yet unsaid ways. What caught my attention about this article was that among the interviews of local folks about how they felt about this possible expansion of [...]

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A Pitstop in the Elections

I was perusing the Elections section in Google News this morning when half way down the page I found this:

Vacaville, CA (KCRA) – A California man popped the hood of his truck and saw a pair of eyes looking back at him.
“When I opened it up there were a pair of eyes staring at me [...]

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