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No More Ad Feminam

By wws on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 10:46pm |

I am a well-read woman who feels free to express my opinions, though I am too often lazy about tracking down and citing the supportive references from which my opinions derive. So, it is neither a surprise nor a cause...

I am a well-read woman who feels free to express my opinions, though I am too often lazy about tracking down and citing the supportive references from which my opinions derive.

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Making Retirement, or Even the Dream of Retirement, Meaningful

By wws on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 2:28pm |
Billy Glad started an interesting discussion last week about  whether or not the Boomer generation should turn over  their power to those who are younger because "it is their turn."The initial response by-passed the issue raised in favor of attempting...
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Why Can't The Decider Be More Like The Scarlet Pimpernel?

By wws on Sun, 06/22/2008 - 2:45pm |
    Sunday morning and plenty of favorable signs: sunny skies; cool breeze; birds chirping; strong coffee and time for a leisurely scan of the day’s news.     FISA articles? Not today. Campaign update? Nah, tomorrow is soon enough. Instead, a...
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Caveat Emptor: What Flood Victims Should Anticipate, Part 2

By wws on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 4:39pm |
Further notes for flood victims:1) Keep in mind that most houses that are catastrophically water-damaged and which remain empty (if boarded-up) for a year or more will have to be torn down due to deteriorating structural issues and irreversible infiltration...
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What Hurricane Tornado or Flood Victims Endure

By wws on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 11:23pm |
Here's how it works:    "Apres le deluge, " weeks will go by before an insurance adjuster shows up. In the meantime, you camp under a partial roof, without windows or doors, without power or water. Sane people would flee, yet...
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Caveat Emptor: What Flood Victims Should Anticipate

By wws on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 9:35pm |
This I know from personal experience; I lost a waterfront "dream house" to Hurricane Ivan's tidal surge in 2004: The flood damage itself is, incredibly, only the beginning of the homeowners' nightmare. And it is a third circle of hell...
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HILLARY? ARE YOU A CLANDESTINE TPM POSTER?

By wws on Sat, 06/14/2008 - 9:50pm |
   Michelle Obama is being serially swift-boated with both sexist and racist slurs. Yet Hillary Clinton -- who so recently suffered similar attacks of sexism, though not racism -- is unaccountably silent.We understand that Hillary is tired – God knows,...
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Just Say No to Pseudo Patriotic Email

By wws on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 1:14pm |
There is a particularly mean-spirited  email floating around that urges you, as a "patriotic American," to boycott all Chinese products from June 4th -July 4th. It's filled with the usual angry flag-waving, breast-beating, "we're-number-one" righteousness that so distinguishes us in...
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Just A Man and A Boy, but Oh, What A Moment by wwstaebler

By wws on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 10:00pm |
One of the most beautiful moments of last night in St. Paul was after Obama's speech, after he had done the rope tour and was heading out of the arena proper. An Obama-of-tomorrow boy -- seven or eight? -- was...

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