Category: current events
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up and at ’em
It’s four-thirty in the morning, and it’s time for some coffee, because what else are you going to do if you’re awake at four-thirty in the morning besides make coffee? Everything else in the day comes later. When it’s that early, coffee’s the only thing that matters. Why am I out of bed at four-thirty… Read.
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Alas Dave Brubeck
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the song
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tired of bronco bama & mitt romney
Bronco Bama and Mitt Romney make me want to cry too, Abby. Read.
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debates
I watched the presidential debates Tuesday night, not because I was interested in listening to the same old crap coming out of the mouths of the candidates but, honestly, because I felt guilty about not taking a more active part in the democratic process. What did I learn? Something very important, really. It turns out… Read.
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moderation
I would be such a terrible moderator for presidential debates. “Let’s stay on topic, please.” “Would you please answer the question, sir?” “Stick to the facts without trying to spin them, please.” “Hold on: Do you have any statistics on that?” “Time, sir.” “Time, gentlemen.” “Time, goddammit, time! TIME!” Read.
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space chronicles
“…the Cassini spacecraft pulled into orbit around Saturn. There was nothing scientific about it, just pulling into orbit. Yet the Today Show figured that was news enough to put the story in their first hour – not in the second hour, along with the recipes, but in the first twenty minutes. So they called me… Read.
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Ovaltine
Catching up on my Twitter feed this morning. Ran across a Tweet from science writer Pamela Gay describing the exploration of the asteroid Vesta by the Dawn probe. “Vesta melted, formed iron core, may have an Ovaltine crust.” Wait, what? Oh. Olivine, not Ovaltine. Okay, then. Read.
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