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Some of this is real for me and some of it isn’t. In fact, some of it runs explicitly contrary to my experience, but it’s here anyway because I think it’s interesting that those are are the thoughts and experiences that others have had. I don’t have the expertise to vouch for anything fact-based; one can accept all that at face value or not. For me, it’s just a way to think through this and get my head around it. Which I need to do.

Without further ado…

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Admittedly, the most interesting part of this article was the title. To be honest, I just wanted to type the sentence.

[And also, four grammys.  Take THAT, The Raconteurs.

Chililicious.

OK.  Done now. ]

My faith in peanut butter has temporarily been shaken.

On February 10th the New York Times ran an op-ed by Gar Alperovitz entitled “California Split” which merges two (admittedly not-all-that-unrelated) ideas that have been on my mind for a long time. One of them is my own and has been since I read Animal Farm & studied the Russian Revolution in the ninth grade. The other was the driving force behind my college roommate’s honors thesis in American History. I have to say, it was pretty cool to read something not only built around both, but that used as its subject the very state I live in.

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In a shocking and earth-shattering revelation, the Pentagon says Cheney & his buds lied to us about connections between Iraq & Al Qaeda.   Just shocking.

Wicked cool.

Hehe…During college many a work session was definitely foiled by hours upon hours of DDR.

As tempting as it is to believe it, donuts and bagels are NOT the same thing. Still, it’s easy to understand the confusion.

[Can you spot which is the donut and which is the bagel? For the answer, scroll to the bottom.]

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