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Being Fifteen Only Lasts a Year

By we are stardust on Sat, 05/15/2010 - 5:57pm |
  I hated being fifteen; it was when I discovered that there wasn't a single 'grown-up' (what a stupid term) in the world who wasn't a damned hypocrite, and I hated every adult I could think of...what liars they all were. ...
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Sy Hersh Tells Audience in Geneva That US Soldiers Are Engaged in Battlefield Executions in Afghanistan

By we are stardust on Wed, 05/12/2010 - 11:45am |
Veteran Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who broke the initial story of the My Lai massacre and the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, spoke to an audience at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva the week of April 22,...
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Are They Selling Us Out Wholesale Because They Are Unattached Sociopaths?

By we are stardust on Sat, 05/08/2010 - 5:07pm |
  [Substitute your favorite metaphor: smashing us like bugs; walking over our backs on the way to the top; raping the planet and its resources....(don't be shy...)]   A theory has been percolating its way up in me over the...
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Margaret and Charlie.....a Vignette

By we are stardust on Fri, 05/07/2010 - 12:55pm |
We lived in an apple orchard.  Dozens and dozens of apple trees surrounded the house, and in the spring upon every breeze rode the soft sweet perfume of their blossoms, a gentle, clean scent tinged with the tiniest bit of...
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Soaring the Flatirons

By we are stardust on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 10:57pm |
  Over the years, I lived in Boulder several different times; almost as though I were Metal to its Magnetic Forces.  It's a college town, so there are bucket-loads of young people, and so many activities it can make...
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Will Someone please tell me....What is the Purpose of Life?

By we are stardust on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 9:44pm |
  I must ask this question out loud once every week or two (yeah; I'm sorta odd; shut up, ;-}); sometimes to probe the Universe for a response, sometimes to see what answer my hubby will come up with on...
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Revisiting: Does Race Matter?

By we are stardust on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 6:20pm |
  Someone recently had a blog up entitled Does Race Matter.  (My apologies I can't remember whose it was.)  I checked the time stamp, got twisted around about what it meant, and spent an hour composing a reply.  About...
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Sundance and Other Things on the Sleeping Ute

By we are stardust on Wed, 04/28/2010 - 6:32pm |
  Far in the southwest corner of Colorado rests the Sleeping Ute.  His head is to the north, his feet to the south, his toes a volcanic outcropping.  Legend has it that when he is angry, puffs of cloud...
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Showdown in America Bank Protests Start Today (a cheap cut-and-paste blog)

By we are stardust on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 6:31am |
  Is there one near you?  This is the week that may determine whether or not any meaningful financial reform is passed by Congress. Peter Drier, TPM guest blogger posted yesterday about the combined groups who will join together...
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One Last Attempt to Strengthen Dodd's Bill

By we are stardust on Sun, 04/25/2010 - 10:38am |
  (Yes; image-pun intended...)   Is there any hope that it can be strengthened?  Who knows?  All this is so fluid, and may be voted on at the first of the week.  It looks unlikely that any truly meaningful financial reform...

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