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Get a grip on it. The Freedom Tower. A sacred subject. Right? No.
The Freedom Tower. Honors those who perished there and the whatever for which the new urban warriors fought daily. Right? Wrong.
The victims of 9/11 (here in America) were not urban warriors laboring for freedom, they [...]

Was one of those kind of sleeps where you go to bed and wake up feeling like you’ve been drugged, can’t move, go back to sleep and repeat. Lots of dreaming. I remember at one point trudging along in one of those dreams and looking down and seeing my left pants’ leg pulled up [...]

Husband stands over my shoulder and says, “You managed to get the kitchen cabinet doors shut.” And I tell him no I did not, that the distortion in the image, caused by the slightly wide angle lens, just makes it looks like they are. See, for some reason the landlord, when installing [...]

John Walton, 58, died in a plane crash Monday. I suppose now’s not the appropriate time, out of respect of the recently dead and their grieving family, to say anything other than, “Condolences.” But his death just reminded me of the impending repeal on the estate tax, how 5 of the top 10 [...]

I can think of nothing to blog while I’m deep in mangling the look of my site on the side. I’m that kind of dedicated sort of person. But I came across this over at Cupie’s and had to share. You too can make your own baby wipes. Think of the [...]

I’m launching into a blog look rehaul which I may end up hating. Expect things to be way out of whack while I remold template. And I do mean way way out of whack.

Listening to Vinyl Preservation ProjectL: Flutes des Andes (Los Incas).
So do I get off my butt and work on converting to a 3 column layout in which I can set off posts (kind of like Heretik)? I like the presenting each post as more a unique entity or establishing visual themes for. [...]

He suddenly saw the difference between them as sharp as ice and nails and the awesome holy obligation of his shrub to drive past the normal bounds of justice into that fearsome place of godly daring do which was the property of prophets, a territory untroubled by moderate and righteous men nursed on the milk [...]

Following transcribed from Sensenbrenner’s House of Rep. Financial Disclosure Statement for 2004, filed 2005 May
Assett/Income Source, Year end value of assett, Type of income, Amount of Income, Transaction
3 M Co. stock $100,001-250.000 Dividends $2501-5000
Abbott Laboratories $500,001-$1,000,000 Dividends $5001-15,000
Agere Systems Class B $1-1000 None
Allstate Insurance Stock $15,001-50,000 Dividends $201-$1000
(Spouse) Attria Group $250,001-500,000 Dividends $15,001-50,000
AT&T stock [...]

Stan Goff on CD activism.
Via Skookum a reminder of the the WorldTribunal site which has live audio and vido streaming. Ongoing is the culminating session in Istanbul, 23 to 27 June.
Driftglass on the not-very-surprising news of U.S. Doctors linked to POW torture.
Arvin Hill on how Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney plans to solve the [...]