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As She Lay Dying

April 21st, 2004 · Comments Off · Uncategorical Weirdness

There is no rest for the dead, and there is apparently no privacy for the dying - if you’re famous, that is.
CBS: this is disgusting, shameful, and beneath the dignity of a Big Three network.
Diana, Princess of Wales, has been dead nearly 7 years. She was literally hounded to death by the newsies, and [...]

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For The Organizationally Challenged

April 21st, 2004 · Comments Off · Uncategorical Weirdness

Right. I’m disorganized and easily distracted. That much should be obvious to anyone that stumbles across this site looking for plumbing or flooring help. The design (or lack thereof) and scattershot categories speak volumes.
So today I went looking for helpful websites, because in the last couple of years I’ve concluded that I probably [...]

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Footprints

April 21st, 2004 · Comments Off · Uncategorical Weirdness

FOOD 5.2
MOBILITY 0.7
SHELTER 7.4
GOODS/SERVICES 5.4
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 19 (in acres)
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 4.2 PLANETS.
via Pale Blue Dot
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Get Fuzzy Gets Edgy

April 21st, 2004 · Comments Off · Hot Off The Presses

Rob gets a call that his cousin William has lost a leg while stationed in Iraq. He goes to Andrews Air Force Base to meet the plane at 2 a.m. Why 2 a.m.? Ssssh!

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Evil Politics

April 21st, 2004 · Comments Off · Hot Off The Presses

Experts figure perhaps 70 Utah women a year terminate their pregnancies due to fatal fetal deformities. In most cases, doctors induce labor early to terminate the pregnancy.
Doctors are horrified at the options they now will have to present to those traumatized women. And they are angry at lawmakers who they say patched together problematic [...]

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