Whatever you think about their politics (and it seems that almost everyone has an opinion on their politics), this CD is the best the Dixie Chicks have put out.
It mixes rock with country with ballads with blues.  It is the whole package.
Much has been made of the single track, Not Ready to Make Nice.  I [...]

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…world blog day.
To celebrate it, I decided to peruse the blogrolls at BlogHer.

The first blog that I found interesting and want to highlight is An Oxymoron Is Not An Idiot With Zits. She had me at Yee Haw!
In 1966, the world was graced with my presence. The first doctor that laid eyes on me [...]

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Yesterday it really hit me.
I was writing a paper that is a summary of what I do, where I want to go with my career, and how I think this particular class will help me. I have written four such papers for this professor (because I’ve taken four [...]

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A second post for today because I forgot about this.
Tomorrow is World Blog Day. Seek out someone new and from a different culture than your own. Make new friends, learn about new customs.
In the spirit of World Blog Day, they make these suggestions:
In one long moment In [...]

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Tomorrow is World Blog Day. On Wordpress, this should be fairly easy. Click to the next blog and seek out someone new and from a different culture than your own. Make new friends, learn about new customs.
In the spirit of World Blog Day, they make these suggestions:
In one long moment In August [...]

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I sometimes wonder if I missed my calling. Did I catch the wrong train in life? Did I follow the wrong diverged path through the woods?
I know I have an altruistic heart and mind. I know that I want to “do good” and give to others. [...]

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Yesterday was the first day of a new semester.
I’m beginning my second year of my Master’s degree and should be graduating in May.
May.
In my first class of the semester, I got to take photographs. Heh. Now that’s not so bad, eh? Especially for a confessed camera [...]

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I got a secret and I cant explain
All the time, Ive waited for this day
All along I was never in doubt
I always knew it would never get out
There are things that I cannot tell
And there are things that you know damn well
This is getting very hard for me
I guess [...]

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Dead Horse Ranch State Park in Cottonwood, Arizona, is one of those hidden treasures that we all dream of finding to hide away from the rest of the world.
I had drive to Cottonwood with my three-year-old nephew to run some errands. As we drove through town, I noticed a sign for the park. [...]

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From slashdot
Ad-supported Textbooks Are Here
prostoalex writes “Talk to any student about the price of the college textbooks, and you’re likely to hear similar complaints about the cost of the textbooks, the rip-off buyout prices at local college bookstores and insidious publishers who keep changing editions every few years just to change the page numbers and [...]

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