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Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett and I were born on the same day in the same year. I think, all things considered, I will now stop being jealous of her hair… and body… and smile… and teeth… sigh. She’ll still be more beautiful than me in heaven… should I actually ever get there. I wonder if I can request a different quadrant from where she’ll be staying.

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Why is it?

Why is it that when Christians want to justify hate, they quote everyone but Jesus? They quote the Old Testament, they quote everyone in the New Testament who claims to be speaking for what Jesus wanted. But they can never quite find the Jesus quote that justifies their hate.

Why is that?

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Obama and the fly

I have tried all week to shake the image but I can’t. Am I the only one who was slightly freaked by the intensity of the stare and the movements of our president as he took that fly out? Man, I’d hate to be caught in his crosshairs!

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True Horror

Staring at a blank word document on a computer screen, deadline just hours away, mind as blank as the word doc on the screen.

Oh My God! I’ll never have a creative idea again! The scam is up! It’s over! My mind has finally fallen into the abyss and can think of nothing more than getting back to a game of computer bridge.

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Happy Father’s Day

I work with a lot of really miserable, crappy fathers who do everything from beating their kids to having sex with their daughters. This has made me very conscious of the good fathers in my midst.  There are many of them. They are the ones who do their best to provide for their family, are there for their kids when the need arises and don’t run from their families at the first sign that there might be some rough weather ahead.

And believe it or not, if I had to choose a father of the year for this year, it

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It’s hard for me to imagine

As I continue to follow the debate over the gay rights’ ordinance in front of the Anchorage Assembly, I find it hard to imagine how I’d feel if the citizens of this city were engaged in a debate over my right to live equally with other Americans and have my rights equally protected. I always thought that part of being an American meant that people didn’t get to vote on whether or not any group of people had the right to their rights. I guess I was wrong.

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It somehow just seems wrong

I went to see The Hangover and laughed myself silly and that just seems wrong. At my age I should not find that kind of juvenile, boy-based humor funny.  And yet it cracked me up. I guess my mother was right. I’ll never develop taste.

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Taliban…idiots?

Seems to me the Taliban could use some good PR people to advise them that it is NOT a good idea to keep blowing things up and making people mad at you as a way to win their hearts. Going negative… as our Republican Party should be finding out about now… is not a long term winning strategy. It’s as though both groups are bound and determined to destroy any chance they have of ever winning anything again.

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Get out of jail free card

Kohring may be out of jail, but I still can’t get the picture out of my mind of him with his hand out to Bill Allen for cash.  I’m sick of his whining self-pity. Grow up and get a pair of gonads, for god’s sake man!

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