Healthcare lies

I don’t care if you are for or against the proposed health care bill. I just ask that you make your decisions based on fact.
I read an article today that points out the fallacies in a chain e-mail that opponents of the health bill have been passing around.
For the purpose of full disclosure, I support [...]

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Things I actually dislike about capitalism

“Capitalism is surely the worst economic system, except for all the others that have been tried.” — Winston Churchill (paraphrased)
So can you believe that little miss “capitalism rocks” actually dislikes some aspects of her favorite economic system? That despite my hatred of the nanny state that I have a hint of a commie streak?
The following [...]

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I change my mind — I DON’T miss Atlanta

I thought I would, I really thought I would. Well, I am a fickle creature. I don’t.
I think the only things I miss are the hard copy Creative Loafings, and the accompanying easy access to live entertainment. It was a photostream on Flickr I saw today that helped it dawn on me — I DON’T [...]

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I actually went to my high school reunion …

… and it was a pleasant surprise!
I swore I wasn’t going to go, for reasons of, you know, insecurity. I had this image in my mind that it would be an extremely awkward affair, and that people might give me weird looks and whisper about me and snub me, or make weird comments to/about me. [...]

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Touchiness

I really wish I could thicken my skin. I really do.
I admit, I am touchy. This is why I never got on stage more than three times to do stand-up comedy. I have no patience for hecklers, or worrying about what people will think of my jokes.
I have the same problem with blogging. [...]

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Forbidden fruit

Well, looks like it’s goodnight for Sweet Dreams …
Eh, I probably shouldn’t be smoking anyway. At all.
BUT … this new imperial, fiat-from-on-high ban on candy and fruit-flavored cigarettes is pissing me off.
Before I get into this, I want to say that I actually like some aspects of this bill. It’s nigh time that the tobacco [...]

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Adam Lambert Superstar

Adam Lambert is supposedly giving Rolling Stone a “scoop” with a cover story where he “comes out” as gay.

Well DUH … I mean, a man that beautiful and talented who sings like a dark angel from heaven *can’t* play for our team.
But, regardless ..
I’m a 31-year-old straight (OK – hetero) female and if he’s gay, [...]

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Four more for the “Stuff White People Like” list

Ooh ooh, before I forget them again — If the SWPL blog steals my ideas, they can have at ‘em …
1. The ’50s. I can’t tell you how many times I have had a fellow white person say to me how they “wish it was still the ’50s” or how “everything was so great in [...]

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Getting away with murder?

“Getting away with Murder is Technically Impossible” – Forensic Files, TruTV
Bullshit.
According to the most recent U.S. Department of Justice statistics I could find, in 2005, only 62% of all homicides were solved.
Even though the site also says that “homicide has the highest clearance rate of all serious crimes,” still … 62%? In school-grade terms, that’s [...]

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Why I would NOT want to live in the Middle Ages, or any other pre-20th century era

Why? Because I like living in the modern world. (OK, make that the modern, developed Western world.) It’s not perfect, but it seems to suck less than all previous ages. There is nothing “romantic” about the good old days. It was mostly death and heartache and filth and ignorance.

Up until, oh, about a good third [...]

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