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Scaring, glasses of water and holding your breath not working for those hiccups? Try digital rectal massage!

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if only we can get to it.I'm beginning to get a little ee cummings in my head:plato toldhim:he couldn'tbelieve it (jesustold him; hewouldn't believeit)laotszecertainly toldhim, and general(yesmam)sherman;and even(believe it ornot)youtold him:i toldhim;we told him(he didn't believe it,nosir)it tooka nipponized bit ofthe old sixthavenueel;in the top of his head:to tellhim

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Finally, some last shred of decency was forced upon the Bush Administration. It took four embarassing years out of our pride as a nation with justice and laws that apply to all people, equally. I hope that this is just the first of the many apologies and amends that we will have to make for this drunken one-night stand with "cowboy diplomacy".

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I've been thinking a lot about my beliefs lately. It's been a painful struggle for me, but I think as a result of my brother's death I lost my faith. I mourn its loss. I desperately want to believe that there is some sort of order to the universe and that things happen for a reason. So I generated a creed, or maybe it's an anti-creed:I doubt God (or Goddess, or Supreme Being).The earth was an

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My mother is one of the delegates who elected the first woman Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. I found this picture on Yahoo. The new Presiding Bishop is on the left, my mother is directly behind her in the black flowery dress.

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Chevy has come up with the brillian idea of letting the general public make their own Chevy Tahoe ad. Check these out on Eco-Geek.

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So let me get this straight...Tom DeLay is indicted on charges relating to the way he shuffled around money to evade the law, so they hand him the ability to spend and shuffle more money. He is also being placed on a committee that will (correction, make that will not) investigate his own ties to Abramoff. sheesh.

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An interesting diagram. Thanks to Justin for the link.

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What happened? New job, Christmas...um I dunno. Instead of having the idea of a post ratttle around in my head all day, I had the nagging feeling that it had been too long since my last post. Then, unattended in the corner of my conscious, it grew fangs and started snarling at me everytime I even thought of it. So in order to placate the beast...What really frightens me right now is the

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Sorry for the lack of posts. Things have been busy hereabouts. I have a new job and am looking forward to wrapping up all my obligations with this position so that I may move on to the next. Our dear friends celebrated the one-year birth of their son and then swept themselves off to California. They will be greatly missed by all who remain up north. I've been working on some Supreme Court

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Good old George Washington said this of political parties. Letting anyone, from preachers to political parties, tell you who to vote for is inherently un-democratic. It stops short not only one's own mind, but it is also subverts the Constitutional process.

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I though since it has been awhile since I posted, I should just post something. I just couldn't decide. So, I decided to provide links to topics I looked up today:1. Today is the anniversary of Emperor Norton's dissolution of Congress.2. Quantum tunneling3. Cronyism4. The Environmental Genome Project at the University of Washington (I just accepted an interview request with this group).5.

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As the recovery from Hurricane Rita begins, and as the political spin also continues, I thought I'd present a little digest of corrected news:1. There were not mass murders and rapes at the Convention Center in New Orleans.2. FEMA is still fucking up.3. The Bush Administration is using this catastrophe not to rebuild local firms, but to reward no-bid contracts to Republican donors.4. The

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Governer Jeb Bush and his Mystical Buddy.

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Why not jump on the bandwagon...I guess the utter disdain that I once had for Bush has blossomed into a prodigious loathing. Sure, I know it solves nothing. I know what the democrats need to do is to quit bitching about what evils the bushies keep doing and come up with solid plans and concrete ideas and stick to them. So just a little more vitriol for you.

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I didn't think that Bush was man enough. The history of this administration has been rife with buck passing and delay tatics. Bush's handlers must have let him loose again...

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This is so incredibly well-written, I couldn't help but link to it.

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Here are my favorite stories from the hurricane:Jabbar Gibson is my new hero.The Australians need beer.

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Sometimes in history, it seems that all it takes to change the course of events is for someone to just get fed up and refuse to move. The immobility of one human can focus the attention of the world on what it has been trying to ignore.I'm thinking of Rosa Parks, who really did nothing more than refuse to get up out of that seat. If the bus driver had been kinder, had she not been so stubbornly

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Sorry I haven't written in awhile. The dog days of summer always get me down. It just seems the longer the days, the more that I have to do. I hate being hot. I hate being expected to be happy by every grinning stranger that passes simply because the weather is warm and the sun is out. Blah!

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So you think China is the only country that blocks internet access?

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I present to you a list of people and organizations on the government watch list.

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In my normal, everyday life, I think that most people who know me would know if they came up to me with a political statement that they should be prepared to defend it to the death, or agree with me. I don't intend anyone to take this as a personal attack. I'm just highly opinionated. It runs in my family. As I've mentioned before, I have email debates with my uncle. I used to have loud (

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I think that whomever released Valerie Plame's name as a CIA operative should be jailed, according to law. Whoever leaked her name did it to punish her husband for disputing the Bush Administration. That person is a horrible little rat who is hiding behind the morals of two journalists who will not reveal his name. That being said, I think that Time has made a horrible mistake.

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It doesn't seem like we need a Bush appointee to make the Supreme Court scary as hell. Justice Stevens in his majority opinion speaks of the difficulty of administering a test for the public use clause. I think this is just pusillanimous. I'm sure that I could come up with one, based on court president. The court relied heavily on Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff (1984). Oddly enough, the

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I never will understand how Reno can have such amazing people, yet can be so awful at the same time. The end of our journey was plagued with "End-stage Reno disease". This feels, to me, like a dusty mixture of depression/regret and its comingled love of all that stems from the extended family with whom we've reconnected.

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5) Federal Election Commissioner Brad Smith A person charged with the duty of upholding federal election laws, opposes federal election laws.4) The head of the FDA is holding up approval of a drug, not for scientific, but for political reasons.3) The White House Council on Environmental Quality Chief of Staff, an oil lobbyist. Quit after being accussed of "deletion of dire climate change

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hey pot meet kettle...

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So much for being sui generis.

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The Supreme Court just handed down its decision on Gonzales vs. Raich et al. (formerly Ashcroft v. Raich). Aside from the fact that it will allow DEA agents to hunt down the sick and dying, this horrible decision and is yet another case of the degrading of Constitutional integrity. Let me pontificate a little…The only Constitutional way that the federal government can overrule a state law is

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I finally found a wiki that lacked information that I could fill in. It just had to be obscure enough!

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My lover and daughter were sick with a flu yesterday, and so I stayed home to minister to them. While my daughter slept on my chest, I watched "The Battle of Algiers". I am so moved and confused by it. It is not an actual documentary, the entirety of the film is a recreation of actual events somewhat based on a memoir. Filmed in 1965, only three years after Algierian independence, it shows

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As you may or may not know, I have an uncle to whom I write and receive vitriolic political rants. My uncle often sends me links to websites that back up his particular points of view. These sites are spurious to say the least. In order to show him the difference between a reputable site and a goddamn crazy one I did a web search. In the midst of that I found some fantastically bizarre conspiracy

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I love wikipedia. I know that I am not alone. I've seen arguements that it is a perfect representation of practical anarchy. I find the whole experiment fascinating. It seems like more and more online resources are simply "labors of love" and less and less capitalist enterprises. I found a few little gems today in wikipedia I thought I'd share.First, the Antikythera mechanism, possibly the

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The death warrant of my hometown has just been signed. I was amazed at my home state for voting out the clout that came with having a minority leader . It seems to have served them poorly. I mean c'mon South Dakota, I think you forgot that you are just a small state with an even smaller population. Heck, most people can only admit to driving through South Dakota. The only power you can ever

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The authors of this study confirm that suspended animation can be induced in mammals that do not normally undergo hibernation. The authors recommend researching this technique with an eye toward emergency medicine proceedures. I can't help thinking that one more checkbox has been marked on this list of what we need for interplanetary travel.Here's the abstract for those who are not able to link

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I am going to admit something to you. Before I do I want to let you know that I will correct my error as soon as I possibly can. Ok, here goes...I have never read anything by Hunter S. Thompson. I am just one of those sad, pathetic pieces of ooze that has only seen the movie. Ugh, and I know that the sliminess I feel will not go away until I rectify the situation. That said, I found this whilst

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I have held the theory that most anger stems from fear. One corollary to that proposition being the most vehement opponents of gay rights are, themselves, gay and afraid admitting it to the world. I want to make it clear that I hesitated posting this link because of the link to child molestation, which I don't want to imply is inherent in closeted gay men. I do want to imply, however, that it

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I know in my heart that relatively cheap travel is not a basic human right. I know we can all choose to live closer to family and friends (making it unnecessary to fly to one particular state over and over and over and over again).Regardless of this knowledge, I don't think it is too much to ask that those of us who do use airlines not be subjected to any more privacy invasions. None of these

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Sorry for my lack of posts! I don't know what happened this week. I guess I've been feeling uninspired. Luckily, my lover was really inspired and posted some nice audio-visual displays for you all. Especially check out the Leadbelly video, fabulous!So my week was:On Monday, I attended a series of lectures ostensibly about folate and epigenetics, which included a lecture by Dr. Jill James

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I don't really intend to only speak of religious matters, but for now, religion seems to be the dominant meme. I tend to get as infected with memes as the next hyper-obsessive news-watcher. With the death of the old pope and the mitering of a new one I've heard the words "liberation theology" over and over as something neither pope would touch with a ten-foot pole. From the cursory research

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and Mother Nature says "Oh, Hell no, not you, not here."

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Now that I'm a mother, I'm glad someone is fighting for my respect.

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In all the hubbub about the pope, I missed the tenth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing yesterday. McVeigh and Nichols tried to punish their own government for the Branch Davidian fiasco in Waco on April 19, 1993. Unfortunately, the radical right has largely forgotten Waco. They can no longer believe in domestic terrorists. The idea of domestic terrorists goes against the stark

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A new pope was named today, news you have likely not been able to avoid. At least in the "progressive" United States and in progressive Europe the election of arch-conservative Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has been met with some disappointment. He was, until this morning, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the post-1908 name of the Sacred Congregation of the Universal

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So I start. I need a riposte for the media that bombards me, I suppose you all do. I cannot wait any longer for friends to post what I need to respond to. I love you. I'll write soon...

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