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Grown up toys
“Nice ride,” I said to the guy in the Mercedes parked on the other side of the gas pump. I heard him thank me. I started filling the tank of our beaten up eight year old Kia Sedona minivan, looking ruefully at its dents and scratches and torn up paint. “I wanna be you when [...]
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Daily Kos: An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America
Daily Kos: An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America: “You like war. You like torture. You like Jesus. I don’t know how in the hell any of that is compatible, but no one ever accused you haters of being over-committed to ideological consistency. You like people who look [...]
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Shopping for new car insurance
Since I moved back to Boston in 1991, I’ve had an auto insurance policy with an independent broker via Liberty Mutual. In the 21 years since, I’ve had cause to contact them a few times because of auto accidents, but mostly I’ve been a valuable customer for them, paying my policy on time and, most [...]
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Brian May: ‘Freddie Mercury will appear in ‘We Will Rock You’ but not as a hologram’ | News | NME.COM
Brian May: ‘Freddie Mercury will appear in ‘We Will Rock You’ but not as a hologram’ | News | NME.COM: “Brian May of Queen has said that the band’s late frontman Freddie Mercury will appear as an ‘optical illusion’ in a special 10th anniversary performance of the band’s own musical We Will Rock You.” I [...]
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Ashton Kutcher “gaffes” like Tracey Ullman, et al
I think you gotta cut the kid a break.
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Jimmy Fallon and Barack Obama slow jam the news
A heck of a way for the President to get the word out there about student loans to the audience most likely to be directly affected. Well played.
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Musical memory lane with the 15 year old
As her parents did and their parents did, Emmeline is exposed to music we like and is picking up bits and pieces of our music collection that suit her tastes. The latest two additions to her music library culled from our glory days are The The and, incongruously, Scritti Politti. The The (these days, an [...]
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Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists
Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists – Features – Al Jazeera English: “Gulf of Mexico fishermen, scientists and seafood processors have told Al Jazeera they are finding disturbing numbers of mutated shrimp, crab and fish that they believe are deformed by chemicals released during BP’s 2010 oil disaster.”
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A week with the Gillette ProGlide Styler
Let me say at the outset that I’m peculiarly brand-loyal to Gillette. Perhaps no other company has evoked in me such strong loyalty save Apple. I’ve been using their men’s care products for most of my adult life. Gillette, of course, tries to find new ways to get people to buy their products every few [...]
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Why Airport Security Is Broken-And How to Fix It – WSJ.com
Why Airport Security Is Broken—And How to Fix It – WSJ.com: “In attempting to eliminate all risk from flying, we have made air travel an unending nightmare for U.S. passengers and visitors from overseas, while at the same time creating a security system that is brittle where it needs to be supple.” Anyone who travels [...]