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Yesterday morning, as I so often do, I was watching Face the Nation (used to watch Meet the Press but it's just not the same without my Tim Russert, RIP). Bob Schieffer had 3 governors on: Haley Barbour, Rob Riley, and Charlie Crist (Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, respectively ( Read more... )

This weekend marks Founder's Weekend/Day, an important moment in time not just for members of AA but also for the citizens of Akron, Ohio ( Read more... )

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I have been making a concerted effort over the last year or so to catch up on every show I ever should have watched ever. I am not doing badly. Finished up Battlestar Galactica in time for Caprica to be awesome (hope they bring it back!). Got caught up with Friday Night Lights in time for the start of this season. Lots of people had been telling me ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, my mom got one of those giant Time Life books, in this case one that focused on World War II. Being the complete history buff that I was at the time, I would spend hours just leafing through the photos in that book. There were a lot of memorable photos, as you might expect. Photos of the holocaust, photos of soldiers covered in ( Read more... )

I never know exactly what to say around Memorial Day. I worry that my words will impact a lot of people negatively because I have always believed that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been wrong. That's right, I think that our attacks on Afghanistan after 9/11 were misdirected. Now we turned it around and said we were attacking the Taliban, ( Read more... )

I had a strange experience this morning as I was leaving for work. A smell wafted into my nose that immediately sent me back to my old, old apartment. I think it's just the smell of an apartment air conditioner. Kind of a wet, swampy, yet kind of pleasant and cool smell ( Read more... )

A few years ago, I contacted a person I had "met" through an online support group. I was going through what has been thus far the winner in "the nadir of your existence" contest. She had traveled a similar path but was standing in a clearing. I asked her how she had turned it all around. Whe everything seems covered in thick, black, burlap curtains ( Read more... )

It's probably worth noting that Saturday marked the six-year anniversary of me leaving academia. I left my one-bedroom apartment on Saturday, May 22, 2004. I had two Masters Degrees under my belt, but I felt like a complete failure because I was leaving without completing my PhD. I didn't even get to comps. I couldn't drive, I had no job even ( Read more... )