September 2010
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My friend Susan's blog is really good. →
She writes as beautifully as she sings.
I’d be jealous as hell if she weren’t also so damned nice.
History will hold to account every member of...
ronbailey:
alinasmith:
“If the military’s unjust policy is not repealed in the lame-duck session, there is another way out. The Obama administration can choose not to appeal Judge Phillips’s ruling that the policy is unconstitutional, and simply stop ejecting soldiers.
But that would simply enable lawmakers who want to shirk their responsibility. History will hold to account every member...
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Anyone else?
Does anyone else looking up at Jupiter tonight feel just a little bit sad that you’ll never get to go there?
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Sunday Confession
I don’t really understand the difference between Sunday Confession and Truthful Tuesday.
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A Small Memory
The quiet. The freakish, terrible quiet.
We lived about five miles due east of O’Hare’s main runways which run east/west. On most days, any planes from the eastern half of the country and the world beyond destined for ORD went right over my living room. We lived under the point in the flight where the pilots lowered the landing gear and did that thing with the flaps that, as a flyer,...
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What I've Learned: Part 4 of 6
Part of an ongoing series that is the result of my 2010 New Years Resolution to learn something every day.
Here is Part 4, July and August, a tad late. As before, the REDACTED lines are mostly about work items and an abundance of caution regarding intellectual property, not sexy drama or hot gossip. Clearly, and unsurprisingly, this period has a real estate flavor to it.
Previous editions:
Part...
felicitous-tranquility asked: You can only play one instrument for the rest of your life, but it's one you've never played before today. Which do you choose?
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