Liz

My Mountain’s on Fire

July 9, 2008

This evening I went out to dinner with a friend.  After leaving the restaurant, I noticed a big cloud right on top of Mount Sentinel, and at first I didn’t think anything of it.  Double take – there was a helicopter and I was like, um, holy oh-my-god… There’s a fire right by my school.  [...]

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July 8, 2008

true, but some poop is larger and smellier… (hint: from the larger animal).  preaching to the choir, but meh, why not? props to both animals being vegetarian though :0)

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Why Can’t They?

July 7, 2008

UPDATE: The Church of England has voted in the affirmative – females will now be allowed to become bishops. The Vatican isn’t too happy, but, then again, the Church of England isn’t Catholic, so I’m not sure why the Vatican’s response is getting so much coverage on this issue – you’d almost think Europe was [...]

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Jesse Helms Died…

July 4, 2008

Jesse Helms – the famous, über-conservative, former US senator from North Carolina – passed away this morning at 86 years of age. Ironic, as it is Independence day and now we’re free from yet another suppressive influence. [The] Senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay [...]

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Wait a second – from China?

July 1, 2008

Our interrogation techniques in Guantanamo Bay are actually modeled after Chinese Communists techniques during the Korean War, “…techniques to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners… [what] the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by the [...]

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