Yeah, apparently that's the only way we can get in the news.... -A.
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I realize this article is old, but I'll say it anyway: breastfeeding in public isn't illegal, not in the U.S. at least. There was a Starbucks case where a worker asked a mother to cover up, not knowing that Starbucks had some sort of policy (imagine that we have to have policies about when moms can feed their kids) allowing it. The mother staged a sit-in and, well, there were a lot of suckling babies at that Starbucks one day. I believe there was a si
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Imajinit, you come to the Pacific NW sometime and I'll take you to a Burgerville. You won't complain about bad fries or droopy onion rings--it's almost too good to be true. Mostly they're just really good. Mmm. I'm hungry. -A.
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Personally, I blog in a head-to-toe flannel nightie, with socks, slippers, and a nightcap. -A.
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It might be a McDonald's thing. (Trying to compensate for their over-hot coffee, maybe?) The only good fries I like are steak fries, and they aren't served at fast food places. Personally, I'm an onion ring girl. I could eat those every day.... Ahh. Good stuff. -A.
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I've not seen a discussion about this topic yet on JU, so I hope I'm not treading on anyone else's toes by bringing this up (if you've blogged about this, feel free to post a link below). Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) is a concept where you vote for presidential candidates in the order that you would prefer rather than voting for one and only one, and risk an independen
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I didn't know it was illegal, probably because I write so few checks. All the same, I was doing an internship in another state for a couple months and sent rent checks to someone in another state, who didn't cash them until the day after I bought my wedding dress on eBay (which, btw, I highly recommend). Bounce. Grr. -A.
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exodus from pahrump Sounds like a famous novel waiting to be written.... Good luck, Gideon. -A.
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Although another downside of the process is you don't have a paper copy of your check come back to you to prove that you paid for something, which could be bad news if you get into a dispute with someone over payment. I'm a little peeved about that because I was getting weird charges on my bank account
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Figures it would take a volcanic eruption to get the Pacific Northwest on the news.... BTW, I don't think you're supposed to copy and paste entire stories--TW and the admins know more about this than I do, but it's a copyright violation. Just so you know for next time. -A.
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A small business owned by nice people! What a concept As I grow older, I frequent big businesses less and less. There's a city in Idaho--a resort town--that doesn't allow chains or conglomerates, for the most part. I think there's a Best Western (hotel chain), a Rite-Aid (doesn't matter--the local drugs
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It's nice to hear that there are still sensible people in the world. And Raven, thanks for the suggestion. I always consider that a high compliment. (I'd be surprised, however, if any magazine would publish this--magazines don't exactly pander to the idea of personal responsibility, IME. We'll see.) -A.
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In any given group of females, 1 in 28 has PMS. That's 642. Wouldn't it be more like 6 or 7 in 28 have PMS....? *grins sheepishly* -A.
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The rate of obesity in children ages 12 - 19 has tripled, and for ages 6 - 11, doubled in the last 30 years. My own 18-year-old students last year were not among the slimmest I've ever seen. One day we got into a discussion about chores in class. What I heard from them was disturbing: approximately half had never had to do much more than wash the dishes and make their
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I use Mozilla. It's free, it's easy, and it has nifty features that Internet Explorer and Safari (my other two browsers) don't have, like the tab feature. It automatically blocks popups and you can right-click and block ads you don't want to see... Unless, that is, the ads are done with the graphics animation program Flash. Those I cannot figure out how to block, and--even worse--they're the ads I *really* hate. LIke all the DNC "Help remove B
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I'm thinking I should change the last line to "!?~?!!General Protection Fault", though. That would make more sense. (sarcastically) Oh, yeah, that would help TREMENDOUSLY, it'll make tons more sense. (I never did get poetry....) <img src="../images/smiles/joke.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absm
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lit and git at cash equal splat left bananas twiddle hat and percent what hash hash four (for) slash tick back tick underscore plus minus brackets pipe dot bash braces cash at splat splat oh to hell with this, i have no idea if this is supposed to mean anything... Grrr. Apparently I, too, have too much time on my hands. -A.
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You have waaay too much time on your hands.
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Yeah---has Netflix raised its prices? I thought they were up to $25 or something. Unfortunately, we don't rent enough for Netflix to be worthwhile, but I roomed with a guy who got it and it was nice. I haven't been to Blockbuster in months. Many months. I'd rather watch the DVDs I have over and over again than give them business. I notice now that they've taken a page f
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Hey, someone else is keeping one eye on JU and one on the TV, eh? I think Bush is winning. He's annoying, but he's stronger in his stance. Will wait and see how it turns out, though. -A.
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Heh, you're only stealing from me in that I tried to do this a long time ago but NO ONE responded, so I deleted it. No worries there. I'll go read yours just after this. Here's the link to my "Dear Blockbuster, I hate you" article. Link I think it's funny, if not particularly deep. If we're going for deep, that would pr
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Dr. Guy, I taught college freshman comp this last year. Currently I'm gainfully unemployed, though that might be looking up. As for plagiarism, due to the fact that teenagers read this, I won't disclose some of my methods. The main one, however, I freely admit: I had about 30 students in each of my classes. On the first day I had them write whatever they wanted for about
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Stevendedalus, I agree. Gideon's feminism thread is an example of a spinoff that I don't mind at all, and the fact that he had altruistic reasons behind spinning it off was nice, too. As fo hijacking, I'm sure I do that--and then there are times when I get around to reading an article and the comments are so far off from what I want to talk about that I just don't comment. I probably should, but it sort of feels like interrupting. <img src="../images/s
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"it's policy" is the service sector employee's equivalent of "because I said so". Clever, Gideon. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that my parents are the only people who could ever use the policy or because-I-say-so argument on me (not anymore, of course). -A.
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I dont think I know the thread, but hope you can at least find satisfaction in knowing you have inspired plagarism! (just kidding). Heh, that's funny 'cuz one of my best blogs (well, one that I got a lot of points for) was the one where I talked about failing a student for plagiarism, and someone asked
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