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The Dalai Lama received the Congressional Metal of Honor this week, and President Bush gave the only eloquent speech I've ever heard him give. The day after the celebrations and his close encounter with His Holiness, Bush spoke out about Myanmar and actually mentioned the word conservation in regards to fishing in Maine.I say that for the cause of world peace, George W. Bush should go fishing

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I created this Seal of Approval at this website. I would love to put this on a child's award certificate someday--alas--Ron Burgundy is not exactly age appropriate, no matter how perfectly pompous his seal of awesomeness might be.

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If we have all of this money to kill people, is it not true then that we have it also to HELP?

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Hermione tells me that she may be going to Hawaii for her Fall Break from Hogwarts. 20 people from her Geology class get to go. But here's the kicker--the cost of going to Hawaii to study geology comes out to only $50 bucks more than the cost of the geology textbook!

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Maia adds a new phrase to the English lexicon--Poach a RoachAs in, "Did Biscuit (our dog) just poach a roach?"Come to think of it, the roach was more like sunny-side-up, but that's not what she meant by 'poach'.For more fun phraseology, visit: pseudodictionary.com

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Most solar systems are cheap and easy to build.(This was an actual t/f question on my environmental midterm exam.)

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I just had a birthday at the end of last month, and that means one thing for sure (besides the age thing)--I am obsessing about getting a tattoo. Usually by now, I'm over it. I have either sublimated by tattoo craving by making another t-shirt, or all of those self-reflective thoughts that come around the b-day have ebbed and I no longer feel the urge to journal on my skin. This year, it's

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After leaving civilization, it took me to my second night sleeping under the stars to break on through to the other side, and into a completley different frame of mind. I knew it happened when I found myself having a one-on-one with the Dalai Lama, and achieving a total mind-meld with the head spiritual honcho himself. Past reasoning and beyond words......The above photo is of a spring in the

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We have caught the fever and are soon to embark on the annual Florida Springs camping trip. Knocking off 3 more springs on our list, including the Queen of them all--the Ichetucknee. A 3-hour Tubing Tour down the "Ich", swimming, snorkeling, hiking in Manatee & Fanning Springs and maybe even a side visit to U of F in Gainesville to see if Bliss likes what he sees. Bye-bye civilization, hello

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Where semi-colons are required, but question marks are optional.

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My old friend Lisa has gone and visited a place for me I have yet to get to-- Andrew Goldsworthy's wall at Storm King.What a beautiful time of year to visit, and see the landscape a little bit differently.

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Once and a while I'll be putting up photos of Church marquees that either inspire or amuse me. This first one comes from my spiritual retreat center (aka 'church') and the words could not be improved upon.

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An Arctic Hooded Seal has been found swimming in the local intercoastal waterway here in South Florida. Vacationing in the Keys perhaps? I don't think so. See video here. I just wonder--how long until my prediction of seeing Polar Bears off the coast of South Florida comes true?

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I heard a wonderful story the other day....In the version told to me, one of the Buddha's disciples went to him and asked to be shown Heaven.The Buddha said: "If you want to see Heaven, you will have to see Hell first."The disciple agreed.The Buddha took them to Hell, where an enormous banquet table was set up, piled high with fabulously delicious food.Unfortunatley, all of the diners had,

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As a person who has always said the place and time I would most want to live is the United States before colonization; who truly thinks that the best thing for humankind is to go back to living in tribes, and who actually thinks it's quite possible that I was a Native American in another life, this week I saw the most moving and honest documentary about a Native American man I never knew existed:

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The Toyota Prius may be looking very much like this in a few years. There is talk of making it either a plug-in or half electric/half biodiesel. That upgrade combined with this styling would be phenomenal. I just can't get enough of that roof. More pictures here.

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I thought it so appropriate that I should see today, on the vernal equinox (1st day of spring), a pair of Sandhill Cranes and their newborn, long-legged chicks--newly hatched and strolling down the sidewalk--taking in spring.

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* * See last post.

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This picture depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds. Go hereand click on Running the Numbers to see the staggering beauty of Chris Jordan's creative use of statistics.As you look closer, the outrageous amount of consumerism that defines American culture becomes strikingly clear.

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The foreign film Water is the only movie I have seen nominated this year deserving of an Oscar. It's lush, has great depth and carries an important message. The fact that the making of the film was delayed for 5 years because of extremist Hindus in India just gives it that much more of a chance of winning.That's the only one I'll be looking at Oscar night. Well, that and Scorsese, I guess. OK..

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I can't help feeling strange about watching a nature program while I run on the elliptical machine at the gym.

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Life in our one month of winter here has been very rich. Took the 'kids' to see the George Rickey Kinetic Sculptures (see above) last weekend. An incredible collection of sculptures that are in constant motion without the use of motors--just good engineering. A very pure mind-state is created just watching these art pieces. A Zen Beginner's mind. Some of the best artwork I've seen locally.

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If Al Gore enters the presidential race, we will have succeeded in having all of the major movements of the sixties and seventies represented.A black, a woman, and an environmentalist. No matter how cynical we may be trained to be by the powers that be--that be progress.

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500,000 marched in Washington this past weekend, although you would barely know it as the media doesn't much show it. I couldn't go, but I did get to see Noam Chomsky speak for 2 hours ever-so-lucidly on this administration's policies among other things. That man is a modern day political Einstein."Until 'industrial feudalism' is replaced by 'industrial democracy,' politics will remain 'the

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I've always had this theory that all of those retro disaster movies that used to be so popular were the unconscious collective's way of waking up to environmental imbalance and collapse AND THEN I SAW THIS.Forget climate change. The return of the 1958 movie character is global warming's most pressing consequence.By Peter ZheutlinMaybe you think you've heard enough about global warming already,

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This week, my son started his first job. It's actually a fun job as a recreation counselor--teaching kids how to do back flips and dribble (not at the same time). And its got perks--like free use of fitness facilities--weight rooms, pool, racquetball.He was hired a month ago, and as he waited to fill the position, they increased the pay rate. His first job and he gets a raise before he even

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Hermione took this picture up at college in PA. One of her many tales she gets to tell about campus life is she lives about 15 miles from Pleasantville. How many people get to say that?

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Starting to plan another trip to NYC with my buddy Phil, to see The Coast of Utopia, The Vertical Hour, maybe catch Woody again at The Carlyle , See Claire Daines @ PS 122, and see what else comes up. Hmm..yeah...Amsterdam also sounds good. You Belong in AmsterdamA little old fashioned, a little modern - you're the best of both worlds. And so is Amsterdam.Whether you want to be a squatter

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At a very hoity-toity venue, we saw him play with his New Orleans-style jazz band. A dream come true for me, ever since I saw him in Wild Man Blues. Part of the set included the songs, Seems Like Old Times (the musical highlight of Annie Hall), Sweet Georgia Brown, and Down By the Riverside (Ain't gonna Study War No More). He's incredibly passionate about this music, he's also very reserved on

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This simply never ever gets old.

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I want to invent microscopic lenses for use in glass frames so that you can wear them when it snows and see snowflakes the way nature would've intended if it were in any way practical.

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See The Shining in a new light.Re-cut Movie Trailers: Best of 2006

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Don't forget your canine buddy. This is a rubber ball with a huge smile attached. Oh, the fun at your pet's expense.

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Make a snowflake and help contribute to the Salvation Army.

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Click above pic to see some true Christmas magic--Santa scaring the pants off of innocent children. And to be honest, you really can't blame them. When you see some of these Santas, you'll see what I mean.

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What I love about the Christmas card exchange isn't amassing large amounts of them and having a big collection--it's more the feeling and depth of the message that does it for me. Quality over quantity is more my style. That's why I love cards made by Brush Dance. Because Hallmark may have the sentimental market covered, but if you're going to get all gooey, might as well take it to the next

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On the 2nd day of Christmas... No, this isn't just any old lava lamp. This is a 2 foot tall floor lava lamp. Fun for kids and adults and great for getting your retro on. I have never owned a lava lamp personally, but if I did, I'd have to go big and get this one. I'd also have to say, and yes Fred--I'm talking to you--I'd even get this over an I Dream of Jeanie bottle, which has it's a 70's

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I'm going to do a 12 days of Christmas kind of thing and put up some great products I've come across that are excellent for gift-giving. These have been discovered in my travels and the only thing they all have in common is that they all totally kick a@#^%.On the first day of shameless materialistic shopping bliss, make sure you give to me:The Teavana Perfect Tea Maker. I heard about this & tried

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We made crescent rolls the other night. One of them looked just like the Yellow Submarine. We should have sold it on ebay as proof that John Lennon was really Jesus.

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Fast Food Nation Releases on Friday

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Things just keep getting better & better. Rummy takes a bow, the Democrats take the Senate.Consider the following a eulogy. Here's a hilarious 'poem' from the former merchant of death--Donald Rumsfeld.The UnknownAs we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are

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So, In case you didn't already know....I own a Prius.So just imagine how difficult it was for me the other day, when I drove onto my street and found my self bumper to bumper with a remote control Hummer car.The kids piloting this little symbol of planetary destruction and ignorance sat on the side of the road, trying to move the Hummer out of the way. I reaaallllllllyyy wanted to show these kids

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Free HugsThis is all over the place...as it should be. It says oh so much.

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I truly never just copy & paste, but I had to make an exception this time:Weekend Edition Sunday, October 1, 2006 · In 1918, Robert Frost inscribed a handwritten poem in the cover of a friend's book. For 88 years, the work remained hidden from the world, until Robert Stilling, a graduate student in English at the University of Virginia, recently discovered it.The poem is called "War Thoughts at

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Click above to see the simultaneously sublime and stupid Dirty Car Art by Scott Wade. There you will find a whole gallery of windshield art, using dust as it's medium.This is just cool. One image is of the Sistine Chapel, with God and Man reaching out to each other and squeezing a Pillsbury Dough Boy. I can only imagine what these images look like from the inside of the car. Gives new meaning to

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Conversation between 2 boys, ages 7 & 9:J: I've got a big screen TV that's almost the size of this room!W: Oh yeah, well I've got one that's 5 inches bigger than that!Me: (half listening) What exactly are we talking about here, fellas?

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Click above to hear some of the all-reggae version of Radiohead's OK Computer. Karma Police is wonderfully rendered in full reggae regalia. This is brought to you by the same people who did the stellar Dub Side of the Moon. I'll let you figure out what that was an all-reggae version of.I can hear the critics already--calling this one a complete re-hash.Sorry, couldn't resist.

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Recently returned from a trip up north, launching Hermione at Hogwarts. Before heading home, we went into NYC for a couple of nights. Went to ground zero and was appropriatley very moved. It's very much a sacred power spot. To give an idea of how powerful--the above photo is a poem illegally written by a policemen near the site. Just think of what it takes for a policeman to write unlawful

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In the therapy room with Taylor, age 6.Taylor: I know how to spell TV.Me: Oh yeah? (trying not to laugh)Taylor: Yeah, but my younger brother doesn't.

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Hermione leaves for college in about a week. Oldest daughter leaving the nest. Big transition time. We've been doing special things together over the weekends this month in anticipation of her absence. The above photo is from a Japanese cultural festival in which paper lanterns that represent departing ancestors are launched across a big beautiful lake at dusk to enter 'the other world'. Well,

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This weekend we held a multi-family garage sale, and someone brought Uncle Arthur's Bible Stories to the table for sale. I was floored with flashbacks to being 5 years old and sitting in the doctor's waiting room, pouring through the contents of its pages. What I remember is sitting there feeling quilty, like I was looking at pornography--so many nearly naked people--strutting around in Eden

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I can't begin to understand what would possess anyone to buy an SUV at this point. And yet it's happening all over the place.WTF.What you support if you buy an SUV at this point:Rising gas prices that will never go down.The end of oil which will bring this civilization as we know it to a halt.A siphoning off of your children's future.War over the last reserves of what is left.A climate in crisis

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On a sea turtle walk, on the beach at night...Maia: How many grains of sand do you think there are on the beach?Me: (Imitating Carl Sagan) BIllions and Billions.Maia: How about stars in the sky?Me: Gazillions.Maia: Do you think you could count all of them in your life, every millisecond, from when you were born to when you die?Me: (staggered at the thought) No.Maia: Good.Me: Why good?Maia:

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Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing.He concludes by saying,"Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."OH NO!" the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

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LONDON (AP) -- Syd Barrett, the troubled Pink Floyd co-founder who spent his last years in reclusive anonymity, has died, the band said Tuesday. He was 60.A spokeswoman for the band said Barrett died several days ago, but she did not disclose the cause of death. Barrett had suffered from diabetes for years.The surviving members of Pink Floyd -- David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard

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The best trailer for this movie can be seen here @ Jumpcut. But what's really great is that you can remix your own while you're at it. This can only be good. How many trailers these days give away the whole plot of the movie and include only the best moments in what is supposed to be the sneak preview? This is a movie-lovers chance to redeem shameless overexposure of film. Plus, it's quite fun,

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Michael Ballack, German soccer player/ Matt Damon, American actor

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I have been away, putting my time in at a great new job I just landed.The job is in the field of Optics as a Visual Therapist, so imagine my surprize when a friend dropped this in my mailbox.You rock, Trumpy!Read out loud the text inside the triangle below.More than likely you said, "A bird in the bush," and........if this IS what YOU said, then you failed to seethat the word THE is repeated

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I had just gotten cold butter out of the fridge, when my youngest, who meant to say 'butter' tells me:Maia: I'm not good at breading bread.Me: It's hard when it's hard.

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My Flickr friend J. Star makes me wish I was a lesbian.

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Makes you wonder what they're going to be making out of all of those VCR's.

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Go here! Drop a question or ponder what's already been asked. This kind of site represents the best the global internet community has to offer. The pictures, questions, and contributions of people around the world are profound, moving, and vital.My answer to the question posed above--What is the role of religion in our days of science and high technology?--is to CONTROL. The biggest building in

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At the library on a rainy Sunday, trying to keep my summer pledge with the family to read a book a week, I look up from a music book and see this:I couldn't resist the photo montage that literally fell into my lap on that library stool. I have always loved photomontage--with two of my favorite artists being Jerry Uelsmann and Scott Mutter. In fact, I love collage in all forms of media--visual,

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I want to see the World Cup finals played on this field. We'll see just what kind of athletes they really are.

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I've been busy with a new camera and making a couple of new t-shirt designs. The shirts are selling so well, that I am soon to begin advertising in a local magazine that gets over 200,ooo readers.Yea, me.==end sarcasm==The new camera has a decent macro lens, which I have wanted for a loooooonnngg time. So, here is the first of many close-ups. When we contemplate the whole globe as one great

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The new Cirque du Soleil show in Vegas is a Beatles-fest called LOVE. The website is groovy, but I have some doubts about the show. I have seen Cirque du Soleil a couple of times and it's a very sensory overload experience (in a good way) with sporatic moments of genius. I expect this one won't be any different, BUT I just keep imagining the scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when Thompson

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Magic with a plastic wand. They make the world a better place. This guy holds the record for largest bubble @ 16 feet. Whoa... it's lookin' a little compensatory, dude.

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At the local museum, I've taken several film classes. They usually center around a theme--Films From Spain or Independent Films from the 90's or Middle Eastern Comedies. OK, I'm kidding about that last one.Well, the head honcho of these series happens to be in my yoga class and I asked him what was next, theme-wise. His response was to ask me if I had any ideas. STOOPID question. I told him my

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At a family friend's house last night, Hermione and I were turned on to this. Here's an excerpt from an actual college essay:Zorroastrologism was founded by Zorro. This was a duelist religion. The three gods were "Good", "Bad" and "Indifferent". These beliefs later resurfaced among the Manatees.It's revisionist history by the mentally challenged. You know, like what we've had to put up with since

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Watch this video. It's a corporate response to the very real issue of global warming. The ending is my favorite part. The caption to the video goes like this:The Competitive Enterprise Institute has produced two 60-second televisionspots focusing on the alleged global warming crisis and the calls by someenvironmental groups and politicians for reduced energy use. The ads areairing in 14 U.S.

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Take the 100 Acre Personality Quiz!

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Taking a break from here to devour this book, which I just found out is going to be a movie by my favorite director in the fall. Trailer is here.This news is like getting free popcorn with the movie, because A Scanner Darkly , also Linklater's, comes out in July.Go ahead--click on the links. You know you want to.

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Too bad its a parody but...This is not to be missed.

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What you don't see in the above screenshot is that all of the people attacking this character in the movie "Silent Hill" are long-haired ghouls with slimy or unkempt hair. Which prompted this conversation while watching the trailer:P: What is it with horror films since The Ring and women being pursued by girls with greasy hair?Me: I think it's all about fear of bad hygiene.P: So, these horror

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Maia and I are looking over a book at the bookstore with funny signs like this, erupting in loud chuckles in the monastically quiet setting. Some of the gems include a sign saying , "Make Three Left Turns to Go Right", "Caution--Pedestrians Slippery When Wet" and "Barf Bed & Breakfast"--which I guess would be a B & B & B.After pouring over the images of sign puns for over a half an hour, we head

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Always after a stretch of Bush-bashing, I start to see the futility of the blame-game. Not that I don't now deify Steven Colbert. And not that Bush doesn't deserve it. It just ultimatley leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and I start to instinctively focus on solutions.So here's a couple.This is a great flash of the 7 Deadly Social Sins according to Gandhi. Much wisdom there.There is so much quality

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"In this job you've got a lot on your plate on a regular basis; you don't have much time to sit around and wander, lonely, in the Oval Office, kind of asking different portraits, 'How do you think my standing will be?'"--George W. Bush, March 2005No, George--we never mistook you for someone with an ounce of introspection. Or in seeing the big picture or taking the long view, or any of those

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Hermione wins 2nd place and $500 bucks in the online journalism contest judged by Dan Rather and Ann Curry! Proud, proud me. Thank you to those who helped to get her into the final round. One of the requirements of winning is she must get her essay 'officially' published. This is just one more great way to earn college $$ for when she goes off to Hogwarts (aka Bryn Mawr) in the fall. We are going

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We saw V for Vendetta finally. V for v-ery compelling. I loved how they used the symbol of the mask against itself. Without giving away much if you haven't seen it, replicas of V's mask are distributed all over the city for the general public who are against the powers-that-be to wear as a show of unity. In the act of wearing them, the people are also showing their individuality or at least their

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In my pursuit of researching the off-beat name of a british comedy that I saw last year, I learned something new today. Foreign comedies take their humor seriously--even the film TITLES are funny. Here's a short list of actual foreign films you would think belonged in the Mystery Science Theater Library, but are really very highly rated movies: My Left Eye Sees GhostsShark Skin Man and Peach Hip

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First of all, thanks to the Bulldog for the inspiration.Chevy Co is holding a contest. Make a commercial to sell the SUV they can't seem to--the Tahoe.Some people are getting very creative. But not the way Chevy might like.Go here to see some brillant and hilarious entries.And then, you can make your own. I just couldn't resist.

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Recently, I put a button on the sidebar that links to a contest inspired by the movie Good Night and Good Luck. The contest is for high school students to enter journalistic essays that inform and enlighten about some current issue relevant to the student's community. Well, my daughter has entered, and the voting ended today. She just has to make it into the top ten and her entries will be read

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I absolutley love this ad for my automobile. My Prius Love knows no bounds--we have even recently named ours, which we never do. Usually, we'll name a friend's car, not our own. But from now on the Holy Prius shall be called--the Green Bean. Green because it actually is in color and for its environmental reasons and bean in honor of a friend of mine who has said it looks like a jellybean. Which

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Did my exercise on the beach this afternoon, and finished up with a meditation by-the-sea. Just as I'm coming out of it, I open my eyes, and right in front of me in the water, a manta ray flies up over the surface of the ocean. H-U-G-E and so alien-looking, like something out of Men In Black. In awe, I soak in the auspicious visitation. For me at least, they will always be called mantra rays now.

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We've been on an Improvisational Smoothie Spree in the kitchen lately--I buy ingredients that sound like they would be good in smoothie form, and whoever wants one gets creative with whatever sounds good to them. The introduction of frozen fruit has gone over big--making more of a sorbet concoction. I personally discovered that using green tea with a splash of orange juice makes for a very tasty

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Hallmark's Rejected Greeting Cards1. Front: I heard you have gone deaf. Inside: I'll bet you didn't. 2. Front: I'm sorry to hear you have gone blind. Inside: See you later, you fucking bastard!3. Front: I'm sorry to hear you are brain dead. Inside: It's really not that bad when you think about it.4. Front: My sympathies on the last of your father's teeth falling out. Inside: Well, dadgummit!5.

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Back from the springs too soon. These last 3 we visited are numbers 5 , 6 and 7 in our series, and three of the best so far. There are over 600 natural springs in Florida--more than anywhere else in the world. Needless to say, this will be a family tradition for quite some time.The whole aquifer system is very amazing, both from a scientific and natural world perspective. These trips get me into

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I'm going to be away for awhile--spring training St. Louis vs. Dodgers game (3rd row right behind St. Louis dugout, yea!), Bela Fleck and the Flecktones concert, and camping at some Florida springs as yet undiscovered by this clan.Here's a couple of fun tidbits to chew on:Wily Coyote found in Central Park in NYC. Amazing to me how he came down to the park, making it past 116th and Columbus

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Interesting section in the Premiere Mag-Rag this month: Top 100 Performances of All Time. If you love film, you've got to have an opinion about this--I want to know! Either share what you consider to be the best, most profound and moving performance by an actor/actress and why, or list a few of your choices. Mine will be in the comments.

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How inspiring to see the world mobilized on year three of this madness. Locally, my fellow theatre friends and myself are wanting desperately to do this.

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Well, I don't have tons of kids, but yep, I can definitley identify with Gaia. Feel free to click above for the goddess test. Here's the link for you guys.

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