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I don’t know whether I want to do Shane, date her, or be her. Damn, she’s hot.

I haven’t had an abundance of time to write in recent weeks. Some may have noticed my lack of posts, or perhaps not. I have a ridiculous amount of work stacked on my desk, which never seems to lessen; however, I want to write damn it, so I will write now.
Recently I have [...]

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The Thanksgiving holiday has evolved from a special day of gratitude for one’s blessings into a time of mass consumption, familial discord and dysfunction, football games, and gratuitous slaughter of animals. It seems to me that we might be better off as a society if we placed more significance on gratitude than we do on [...]

Yesterday I turned 31. To celebrate, in the past three days I have … had a party (on Saturday) whereupon my kitchen turned into a crime scene (looks like one anyway) and whereupon my friends’ car got stolen… Slept away much of Sunday and then watched two discs of L Word Season 1 (I love [...]

Adbusters put out a news release for Buy Nothing Day 2006:
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NOVEMBER 24 IS BUY NOTHING DAY - NO PURCHASE NECESSARY
THE ULTIMATE REFUND: On November 24th and 25th — the busiest days in the American retail calendar and the unofficial start of the international Christmas-shopping season — thousands of activists and [...]

As chair of Benton Park West Dog Park Committee, I was interviewed by Jim Merkel of the South City Journal.  This past Wednesday the article appeared. If you have not yet had a chance to read it, it is here.

Yesterday evening I attended a screening of “Can Mr. Smith Get To Washington Anymore?” directed by Frank Popper. “Can Mr. Smith Get To Washington Anymore?” is a documentary following Jeff Smith in his campaign during the 2004 Missouri Democratic Primary.
Jeff Smith is average in many senses of the word: he’s short in stature, speaks [...]

Maggie Mason of the Mighty Girl blog, one I read regularly, wrote a great book called No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog. I bought it.  I decided to use one of her fine blog post ideas (#39 if you haven’t noticed the post title). The idea is to [...]

Get out and vote!

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You heard me. Get out and vote already!