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My So-Called Life
Sick during Christmas
Whining alert: I was making myself a cup of tea this morning when I burst into tears. “I don’t want to be sick anymore,” I said fervently to myself. And I really, really don’t. It’s hard to describe, the sense of outrage I have toward my body right now. I feel betrayed, misused. I take good care of myself, I’ve had some setbacks but was on my way back, and now I’m dealing with not one, but two pretty yucky [...]
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2000 miles
The very strange original Pretenders video: Bookmark It
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Wigilia
Christmas Eve is the most important night of the year to a Polish Catholic and when I walked to the local Polish grocery store yesterday morning, the place was packed with people waiting to pick up meat at the butcher’s counter for tonight. Traditionally, Christmas Eve is a meatless meal, with twelve courses – one for each month of the year. But there was plenty of kielbasa, wrapped up in brown butcher’s paper for the trip home. “I’m new to [...]
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Christmas Eve blues
Blind Lemon Jefferson: Bookmark It
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Christmas bonuses
You gotta wonder why some of them even bother. Bookmark It
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The big lie
Joe Nocera spells out how the right-wing fabrication machine falsely and deliberately blamed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for the housing crisis. Bookmark It
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Cow with mirror
J.C. Duffy with another kneeslapper! Bookmark It
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What child is this
John Coltrane: Bookmark It
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12:04 pm
Choking is “appropriate” touching?