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Don’t Hold on to Bitterness
I got a friend request on Facebook from someone who made my life miserable in high school.
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It’s Sunday. I get it.
Hardly anyone reads this blog on Sunday. I don’t take it personally. People have lives, after all. Either they’re busy recovering from Saturday night, or they are engaged in spiritual pursuits, or this is the day to go over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house. So I hereby give you permission to…
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Can You Keep a Secret?
What? You didn’t seriously think I was going to tell you one, did you? Well, actually, in this day and age when people have 600 friends on Facebook, 570 of whom they’ve never met, and in spite of that fact they post the most intimate, personal things about themselves, I don’t suppose it’s that big…
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Sneaky Memes
/meem/ n. [coined by analogy with `gene’, by Richard Dawkins] An idea considered as a replicator, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meme I’d never even heard the term meme until I got a Facebook account, but they certainly are like parasites. More and more I’ve…
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Twenty Seconds for Runan Wan: You Could Change Lives
Update: The voting has closed. Thanks to all of you who participated! I’ll let you know if we won as soon as I know. We don’t want your money. We just want 20 seconds. Deep in the foothills of rural Yunnan Province, along the southern border of China, is the Runan Wan Primary School. The…
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The Destruction of Women
Today I came across this picture on Facebook. A friend of mine rightly commented, “And this was before Photoshop.” Women used to aspire to have wasp waists. To heck with breathing, we wanted to be desirable! These contraptions caused deformities in ribs and internal organs, weak muscles, and respiratory problems. It also increased the…
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Don’t Get Your Knickers in a Twist
Is it just me, or is everyone experiencing a spate of mounting hysteria? I know the economy is bad, and there are wars and abuses and crime and tragedy. I know that there are plenty of causes and issues that need to be addressed. The four horses of the apocalypse are being kept quite busy,…
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When the Punishment for a Good Deed is a Lifetime of Regrets
Everyone probably has a story about trying to help someone and instead unintentionally making things worse. This is one of those stories. But if you’ve been reading my blog, you probably know I don’t ever go half way. I strongly suspect I may have ruined someone’s life, and the worst part about it is that…
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The Misinformation Movement
The other day I was perusing Youtube and I came across this video called The Eyeball Collector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdaJRJFMty8 It says in capital letters, TRUE CRIME CASE, so I was taken in for a split second. But, as I’ve written in a recent blog entry, I am a bit of a sick puppy, so surely in…