Tuesday Shorts

Some quick observations of no importance to anyone but me… ++++++++++ Living for a week or so on a laptop belonging to someone else is frustrating to say the least.

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These Old Bones…They Ain’t What They Once Were.

Leave to a youngish mind in a middleaged, out of shape body to discover the hard way (always the hard way) that he cannot still do everything he once did.

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Tuesday Morning Spring Muse

After hitting the 80’s on Sunday, with morning rain adding to the humidity and clear afternoon skies letting the sun beat down on this part of the world, I made

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Earth Day Is On It’s Way

I saw this announcement in the local news email this week… The city’s biggest family celebration begins at 9 a.m. Saturday at Discovery Green, a large green space in the

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Goodbye to a Legend in His Own Mind

Today, we bid a fond, slightly sarcastic farewell to a man who truly believed the world revolved around him. He lived life as the undisputed star of his own movie, leaving the rest of us as mere extras. The stage is quieter now, but his self-made myth will live on.

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At least US News gets the problem with the economy.

Despite official reports extolling a robust economy, average Americans face a starkly different reality. Mounting costs for energy, food, and tuition contrast with stagnant wages and shrinking net worth. As wealth increasingly concentrates among the top tier, growing economic disparity leaves the majority behind, fueling a pervasive sense of anxiety.

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Daily Kos: Science Friday: Tis The Season

Daily Kos: Science Friday: Tis The Season: “Science Friday: Tis The Season by DarkSyde Fri Jun 02, 2006 at 03:41:48 AM PDT In the aftermath of the devastating 2005 hurricane

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Is U.S. Ready for Hurricane Season?

You know as a resident of the Texas Gulf Coast, living less than 5o miles from the Gulf of Mexico I read articles like this and I am worried, very

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