Year: 2016
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: this isn’t about politics, anymore :
This is about sanity. Boycotts and threats and malicious disinformation abound; hatred, backlash, and vengeance are the new order of the day. What is going on? We need to get a grip and soon. Kellogg’s, provider of Rice Krispies and Corn Flakes, is the newest addition to an ever-growing list of targets. Know why? They pulled their…
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: joke of the month :
A woman got on the bus with her baby. The driver said: “Ugh, that’s the ugliest baby I ever saw!” Offended, the woman went to the back of the bus and sat down. She turned to the man next to her: “The driver just insulted me!” The man said: “You go back up there and tell him off.…
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: vive la socks :
Guess what. People aren’t nearly as divided as we think. Oh, we may disagree, we might call each other names, but we all agree on what we want for Christmas. New socks. Those babies are flying out of stores and landing under trees from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam.…
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: when autumn becomes winter :
Have you noticed how winter tiptoes in during the dead of night, quiet as a fog? You’re lulled to sleep by the soft plash of raindrops and wake to, surprise!, a stark, barren moonscape outside your window. If you can see through the frost. Unlike a visit from Santa or the Tooth Fairy, though, it’s…
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: there’s a catch to happy :
D’oh, why am I surprised? Because I wasn’t thinking, that’s why. But it’s impossible to be clearheaded and methodical when your upstairs neighbor is a wellspring of noise and mental distress and sleep deprivation. I was flipping desperate to move, okay? I didn’t waste time thinking. And, as luck would have it, I wound up…
the whirly girl 