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              | Personals "...smart, attractive, funny, witty, humble, modest..."
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              | Sayings "Once you've endured the unthinkable,
                everything else is just boring." [more...]
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              | A Dog's Song 
  I'm bored I'm bored
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 Do you love me? [more...]
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              | Good King Wenceslas, Da Union Version There was dis guy, Wenceslas, though I dunno what kinda name that is.
                So anyway, he's a pretty big guy in da scheme a
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              | Place I've been to Heaven, and to Hell. Heaven wakes you up with
                warm, yellow sunshine and smells like fresh cut grass, like
                hay, daylilies, wet forest, like lavender.
                Hell is the inside of a hospital, with endless corridors,
                where there is no day, no night, and no exit. [more...]
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                             and follow the links -- some of the good stuff is buried.  And this is
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                  | The News from Brownsville 
 
                      Well, it's been raining a lot this week in Brownsville, my home town.
                      Miss Ruthie O'Malley, who works up at the Poplar Hill farm, a piece of God's
                      Country that is about the closest to heaven that any of us will ever get,
                      considering the deeds we may or may not have done, or whether God was looking
                      at the time, reports on her answering machine that some sheep went missing.
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                  Realities of The Hydrogen Economy
                    In the January 28, 2003 State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush said he wanted to spend $1.1
                    Billion on the "Hydrogen Economy" in research.  All well and good.  But he went on to say that it would mean
                    that our children could drive cars without pollution.  Can this be true?  No, it can't.
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                  Dear Pen-Pal
                    ... We are lucky to have the King. Many years ago, when I
                    was a child, he protected us from Iraq. Now he is
                    protecting us from the latest country to be found out as
                    terrorists, a rouge nation called France. They have an
                    evil dictator, who is "elected" by a communist regime
                    called a "parliament". ...
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                  Letter from the CEO [parody]
                    The CEO of Wal-Mart explains his initiative
                    to redevelop American towns with the latest Wal-Mart stores.
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                  Axis of Evil Tours
                    Iraq: Breakfast in Baghdad
 See this beautiful city, said to be the oldest living city in the world,
                      before we bomb it back to the stone age.
 
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            | Poems The Northern sky, so clear,
 so full of stars
 and the milky way [more...]
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            | Songs and Lyrics [click here...]
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            | Night of the Living Viennese Mingus always liked me.   I don't
              know why he calls me "baby".  This century is full of things I don't
              understand. ... I just go
              by Sebastian now.  It's very big, artists having just one name these
              days.
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            | Tech Corner New 'Virus Alert' Virus
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 Motivation 101 [more...]
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                STREEP WINS RECORD THREE AWARDS FOR BEST ACTRESS,
                PLUS TWO FOR BEST ACTOR
  Meryl Streep plays all of
                her previous Oscar-nominated roles digitally merged onscreen
                in one movie [more...] |  
            | How shall we be define'd? By our modes of transport?
                Trek mountain bike? Schwin townie?
                Hiking shoes? (Pray they are not Nike!)
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