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nolanimrod on January 11th, 2012

I was turned on to this by Fausta and then found it by fol­low­ing links pur­suant to her BlogHer con­nec­tions. At first it just seemed a 15-​​​​minute fame deal (how to get on the Today show) but then I noticed that with­out cap­tions I couldn’t tell mom from her daugh­ter. They used to do dish […]

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nolanimrod on December 15th, 2011

Keep­ing up with our betters …

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nolanimrod on November 27th, 2011

Gems are bright and sparkly no mat­ter where they come from and deserve to be passed around so folks may Oooh and Ahhh and they pro­vide reas­sur­ance that such jew­els aren’t dimmed by fre­quent immer­sions in a Slurpee. Back in mid-​​​​October of 2008, British jour­nal­ist Melanie Phillips observed in the UK Spec­ta­tor:  You have to […]

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