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UPDATE:  Good news!  Females 1& 2 and Male 1 have all found homes!  Please keep spreading the word to anyone you know who might be interested so we can place the last three.  Thanks for the help so far! My folks found a stray dog on their property that they very carefully decided to ignore [...]

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So, I sent Miss Manners a letter, and she printed and answered it.  A): I think this is really cool.  2): I think she has a valid argument.  III): It doesn’t address the whole of the problem.  d): What do you think?

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“Care for your truck as if it’ll last a hundred years.  Drive it as if it’ll break down tomorrow.” – Billy-Bob Gautama

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The Nobel Prize discussion quite reasonably morphed into a health care discussion.  So, if anyone wants to continue that, here’s a place to do so.  My position is as follows: For purposes of this discussion, “profit” refers to money that comes from appropriating the labor of others (“exploitation” in the strict economic sense).  If a [...]

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As I mentioned on Twitter, giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize would be like if the 1907 committee had given the Nobel Prize for Medicine to Mary Mallon.  It would be interesting to have some documentary filmmaker speak to the Afghan and Pakistani civilians who have lost family members and get their reactions to Obama’s [...]

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“The journey is the destination.  As long as you ain’t goin’ nowheres in particular.” – Billy-Bob Gautama

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A student approached Billy-Bob Gautama and said, “Goat, did you ever think about getting married?”  “Thought about it,” said Billy-Bob.  “Well,” said the student, “how come you didn’t do it?”  “It’s like this,” said Billy-Bob.  “The first woman I thought about marrying was pretty as a prairie sunset, but turned out she was meaner than [...]

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“It takes a big man to admit he’s wrong.  It takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.” – Billy-Bob Gautama

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As some of you know,  the RSS feed isn’t working here.  Now a new problem has developed: as of sometime yesterday, I can’t post comments.   In order to even read the comments, I have to navigate to the administration page; somewhat like getting the output from a program by doing a core dump.  I have [...]

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All right, this is getting to be too much.  I ignored it when a friend warned me not to “defend rapists” on her LJ for linking to an article  (See sidebar for the link.)  Now another friend has signed a petition calling for this 76-year old man to “receive justice.”  The cynicism is appalling. There [...]

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“You will feel the truth within you.  Unless it’s just Annabelle’s suet pudding.” – Billy-Bob Gautama

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