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Not soap, but chocolate

April 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Blogs Wot I Read, Fit By Fifty, Health And Long Life To You

I went to a local health and beauty spa today, Spa Martinique. I had done something to my neck yesterday - I have a history of “throwing it out” going back to childhood and later in college. I’d been thinking of finding a good local “aaaah spa,” the kind of place where you [...]

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Zimbabwe: The Suspense Is Killing

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Blogs Wot I Read, Hot Off The Presses, Mini-Posts

Such a platitude: “The suspense is killing me.” In Zimbabwe, the suspense is killing democracy: the Zimbabwe Election Commission has been slowly announcing results in a piecemeal fashion, with suspiciously neck-and-neck results when the numbers posted outside every polling station previously seemed to presage a much bigger majority for the opposition party (or parties, as [...]

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The Questionable Authority : Summary Judgment in California Creationist Lawsuit: Bottom Line, and What’s Next (Part 1 of 3)

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Blogs Wot I Read, Geek Out!, Religion

As a religious liberal who enthusiastically embraces reality (and whose favorite college class of all time was Evolution 101/102/103 long ago), I have to savor the following:
The Questionable Authority : Summary Judgment in California Creationist Lawsuit: Bottom Line, and What’s Next (Part 1 of 3)
This means two things: first, the question of whether or [...]

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Stress Relief: Booked!

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Fit By Fifty, Health And Long Life To You

I did something yesterday to my neck and now it’s all stiff and hard to turn - something that happens to me now and then due to stress. I haven’t had to get a neck manipulation in years, but it may get to that. To head it off, I just booked myself a little therapeutic [...]

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Would The Bad Ex-Bishop of Harare Give Back The Farm?

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Episcopal, Hot Off The Presses, Mini-Posts

Just wondering. Would ex-Bishop Kunonga give back his farm, which was a “gift” from Mugabe? Probabl not.
VOA News - Would White Farmers Return to a Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe?
On the whole, those big commercial farms that were run by white Zimbabweans and owned by white Zimbabweans are now in the hands of Mugabe’s cronies,” she says.

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