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Post by Kahlessa on Jun 29, 2007 19:16:32 GMT -5
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Post by The One on Jul 18, 2007 4:43:19 GMT -5
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Post by Kahlessa on Aug 21, 2007 21:32:58 GMT -5
More interesting links: www.booktv.org/This gives the schedule for C-Span 2 on the weekends, when it features authors giving talks about their books. www.snopes.com/A great website for discovering the truth about rumors and urban legends www.thesmokinggun.com/This website locates public documents about famous and infamous people. This site blew the lid off James Frey largely fictionalized autobiography A Million Little Pieces, which had been one of Oprah’s book selections. |
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Post by julian on Aug 30, 2007 9:40:46 GMT -5
More interesting links: www.snopes.com/A great website for discovering the truth about rumors and urban legends Wow! Thanks for that link, Kahlessa. Very interesting indeed.  |
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Post by Kahlessa on Sept 5, 2007 8:35:39 GMT -5
Miss MannersHere’s another good link—the columns of Miss Manners. (She’s an etiquette expert and the persona of writer Judith Martin.) People write in with questions and she answers them. Miss Manners is witty and wise; and her columns give excellent insight into American behavior and customs. Here’s an example: Dear Miss Manners:
I am in my late 20s, and a lot more of my friends are becoming engaged, and something has really been bothering me.
I am an activist and really have issues with diamonds due to their origins. It is actually one of the main reasons my husband and I did away with the idea of rings altogether until we could find a jewelry company that thinks along our lines. (I have found several recently.)
I am happy for all my friends' engagements, but when they go and show me the diamond and ask my opinion on the ring (i.e., "Isn't it beautiful?"), I really want to explain my position on these stones.
I know that at parties in mixed company, it is definitely not appropriate (nobody wants an activist to spoil a wedding or engagement party), and I usually end up stammering and saying, "Very nice." This usually makes me feel very uncomfortable and hypocritical, like I am accepting these stones as being okay.
How do I get away from the constant feeling that I should let them know how I really feel about the ring, but that it has nothing to do with the actual engagement?
Most of these people know that I am actively involved in clubs like Sierra Club and Amnesty International but do not fully understand why my husband and I have no rings. Most just think it was because we eloped.Miss Manners’ Reply:"Isn't it beautiful?" is not a question; it is a prompt to give the conventional compliment. But if you used the opportunity to state your position, what do you think would happen? Struck by the righteousness of your stand, the new fiancée would pull off her ring in horror and fling it away. No? Then what would you hope to accomplish? Miss Manners assures you that people do not absorb moral lessons from those who trample on their feelings. Rather, they forever associate the unpleasantness of the spokesperson with the cause itself. So if the certainty that you would hurt your friends' feelings is not enough to satisfy you into mere murmured politeness, how about the certainty that you would hurt your cause?
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Post by Kahlessa on Jan 19, 2008 7:19:51 GMT -5
I discover a wonderful comic strip titled “Retail” You can read it at this link. seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/retail.aspIt’s hysterical—like Dilbert for retail employees. The author of the strip, Norman Feuti has written an extremely funny book titled Pretending You Care: The Retail Employee Handbook. Our store receiving one copy and it hasn’t gotten to the shelf yet because the employees keep reading it and passing it around. So the manager has ordered several more for the store. The thing I love about it is that one of the main characters is an assistant manager named Marla. The character also has shoulder length dark hair like me. Strange in a fun kind of way. Here’s the author’s website: www.normfeuti.com/ |
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Post by Kickup on Jan 20, 2008 19:55:42 GMT -5
Here's a couple of mine: www.coasttocoastam.com Edge science talk radio, wonderful interviews. www.unknowncountry.com Whitley Strieber's Web site. Alleged ET contactee and well-known author of fiction and nonfiction. Oops, here's another: www.earthfiles.com No, not a GW site, but other things associated with global anomalies. |
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Post by Kahlessa on Jan 21, 2008 6:49:04 GMT -5
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Post by Kahlessa on Jan 22, 2008 12:33:55 GMT -5
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Post by Kahlessa on Feb 8, 2008 21:59:47 GMT -5
ILF Post ilfpost.org/A Publication of the International Leadership Forum“Featuring frequent commentaries by a core group of Fellows of the International Leadership Forum– former US Ambassador to NATO Harlan Cleveland, author/filmmaker Michael Crichton, anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, psychoanalyst Douglass Carmichael, Biospherian Jane Poynter, survey researcher Daniel Yankelovich, former president of Planned Parenthood Gloria Feldt, actress and former Chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts Jane Alexander, Yale economist and political scientist Charles Lindblom, author Ralph Keyes, former FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, MIT political scientist and former Director of Global Issues in the National Security Council Lincoln Bloomfield and other ILF Fellows and guest experts, plus highlights and policy reports from the ILF conferences.”
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Post by Kahlessa on Feb 12, 2008 9:56:12 GMT -5
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Post by Lukaran on Feb 12, 2008 17:10:26 GMT -5
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Post by Kahlessa on Feb 17, 2008 22:08:18 GMT -5
This is a website dedicated to demotivational slogans. You can buy posters, notecards, mugs, calendars, and other products with the slogans. They're hysterical! www.despair.com/viewall.htmlHere's a terrific site for editorial cartoons! It even has international cartoons. You can get a quick overview of a topic just by looking at the editorial cartoons. cagle.com/ |
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Post by Kahlessa on Mar 27, 2008 8:46:20 GMT -5
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Post by Lukaran on May 15, 2008 11:28:45 GMT -5
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