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Childhood beliefs

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So what did you believe? Am trying to remember what I believed. From Dispatches from Tanganyika (Poppy Z. Brite’s site) TRUTHS OF MY CHILDHOOD If you swallowed a watermelon seed, a watermelon would grow in your stomach.

Morning strangeness

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Found this link to a Japanese Kikkoman soy sauce ad over at Neil Gaiman’s blog. He can’t figure it out. Me either. And no, I don’t know why he gets the girl into bed at the end, especially since she’s nowhere else in the ad. Ah, male-dominated cultures! Gotta love ’em. Maybe they get that … Continue reading Morning strangeness

Yet another reason my husband is glad to be out of Republican politics.

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From NEWS of the WEIRD – Current News Politicians on the High Road In Louisville, Ky., local Republican Party activists John Lowler and Peter Hayes feuded recently over their status at the upcoming state convention, with Lowler alleging that Hayes punched him. Lowler had first accused Hayes of smearing him by suggesting that he had … Continue reading Yet another reason my husband is glad to be out of Republican politics.