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Posted by Luminosity , in Personal 03 May 2013 -

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I was trying to send some text messages from my email but I think I screwed them up. I am dealing with a professional who is older than I am and I don't want to tell her that I can't send texts because that sounds so lame but this is getting to be a lot of work. Regarding the matter at hand, I thought she would have all the answers but that...

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Up at 8:00

Posted by Luminosity , in Personal 01 May 2013 -

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I'm in the Library. Even though it is "air conditioned" it is hotter than the outside. My hair feels heavy. The air is still. Outside a breeze animates the trees and an American flag on a flag pole. Government at work. They could have open air ventilation here. The average air temperature is in the seventies. It never goes below fifty and seldom goe...

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6 million dollars paid to Gardasil victims

Posted by Luminosity , in Health, Politics 22 April 2013 -

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From the Washington Times:

Judicial Watch announced it has received documents from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealing that its National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) has awarded $5,877,710 dollars to 49 victims in claims made against the highly controversial HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccines. To date 200 claims ha...

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Dear Beauty Advisor

Posted by Luminosity , in Personal 05 April 2013 -

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What are the chances I can con people into thinking that my five inch gray roots/auburn hair are "ombre" curls?

Not good-- Beauty Advisor

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Sometimes It's All Too Clear

Posted by Luminosity , in Recommended, Personal 25 March 2013 -

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I went to a library in a suburban neighborhood that is so much nicer than where I live. I was going through all the free magazines. There was a section for college Alumni magazines, Bostonia: The Alumni magazine of Boston University, Yale Law Report, California: Magazine of the Alumni Association of UC Berkeley, Vassar: The Alumni Quarterly, The Bent of T...

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You call it French but it's just Frenchette

Posted by Luminosity , in Recommended, Poems & Quotations 21 March 2013 -

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. . . . . . . We were marveling at The Marvelettes

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . --David Johansen

You call that love in French, but it's just Frenchette
I've been to France, so let's just dance
I get all the love I need in a luncheonette
In just one glance, so let's just dance
I can't get the kind of love that I want
Or tha...

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No Bite Left Behind

Posted by Luminosity , in Food & Drink, Recommended, Personal 18 March 2013 -

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Story of a Day of Gluttony
Something about chronic sleep deprivation and bad produce was making me ravenously hungry. I ate bacon, eggs, brown rice porridge with blackstrap molasses, yogurt, herbal coffee substitute and half a sad orange.
Later in the day I went to the big mall. They let me use the computer at the computer store longer than us...

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Since When? A Skeptical Look at Gun Control

Posted by Luminosity , in Politics, Recommended 01 March 2013 -

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Who will guard the guards? -- Juvenal In the twentieth century, more people were killed by their own governments than by war.
February 2013 In the seventies I would have been all for English or Canadian style gun control for the US because the government didn't seem to have totalitarian tendencies. Th...

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Rocks Stars On CSPAN

Posted by Luminosity , in Politics 21 February 2013 -

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There were rock stars on public access TV where I live. I turned on our local version of CSPAN. There was a government hearing, the usual set up, then the camera took in, a major rock star. Whot? Took a minute to process it. He was there, in the local government headquarters, to testify on a law he was trying to pass, with his lawyer. On the other side of...

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