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* Why language matters when it comes to the immigration debate:

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* Why the courts restoring early voting in Ohio matters:

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* I know I've said this before, but it needs saying again, "We don't give cookies to people simply for refraining from killing or abusing us."

* "Ancient Austrian remains show woman metal worker:" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/9584429/Ancient-Austrian-remains-show-woman-metal-worker.html

* "Purple Snake Poison:" http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/10/dread-death-by-purple-snake-poison.html

* The Tunnels at Baiae: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/10/the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-tunnels-at-baiae/

* This dissenting opinion on a fresco in Pompeii makes way more sense than the 19th Century belief: http://phdiva.blogspot.ca/2011/11/wisdom-to-know-its-not-solomon.html

* New York honors Juan Rodriguez, the first non-native immigrant to New York, being a Dominican of colour: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/honoring-a-very-early-new-yorker/

* More on those Antietam photos: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/antietam-photo-exhibit_n_1941960.html

* I am burning through the retirement money too fast. I know this. I wouldn't have had to if they hadn't laid off all those people in Harrisburg. Still, I could have waited. It's just it was so exciting to simply have enough. Enough money for all the bills. Enough food in the cabinets, enough tools and garden stuff, enough money to slowly replace things that wore out or broke over the last few years, enough money for that trip to Seattle and to refurbish and refill the tanks, enough money for the decants I want to try, enough money for Halloween lights, enough money for Orycon. I know, stupid, right? It's just I feel safer with the food there. I am happier watching the fish swim about. I am happier having enough sheets that I can simply change them when the cats vomit, without any drama. I am not big on material things just generally, but there really is a minimum. I have had to give out so much else.

* I love the idea of the schticky, but no way am I rewarding that ad campaign with my money.

* Rainbow Connection Cake: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/10/7/sunday-sweets-rainbow-connection.html

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* Why language matters when it comes to the immigration debate:

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* Why the courts restoring early voting in Ohio matters:

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* I know I've said this before, but it needs saying again, "We don't give cookies to people simply for refraining from killing or abusing us."

* "Ancient Austrian remains show woman metal worker:" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/9584429/Ancient-Austrian-remains-show-woman-metal-worker.html

* "Purple Snake Poison:" http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/10/dread-death-by-purple-snake-poison.html

* The Tunnels at Baiae: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/10/the-unsolved-mystery-of-the-tunnels-at-baiae/

* This dissenting opinion on a fresco in Pompeii makes way more sense than the 19th Century belief: http://phdiva.blogspot.ca/2011/11/wisdom-to-know-its-not-solomon.html

* New York honors Juan Rodriguez, the first non-native immigrant to New York, being a Dominican of colour: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/honoring-a-very-early-new-yorker/

* More on those Antietam photos: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/antietam-photo-exhibit_n_1941960.html

* I am burning through the retirement money too fast. I know this. I wouldn't have had to if they hadn't laid off all those people in Harrisburg. Still, I could have waited. It's just it was so exciting to simply have enough. Enough money for all the bills. Enough food in the cabinets, enough tools and garden stuff, enough money to slowly replace things that wore out or broke over the last few years, enough money for that trip to Seattle and to refurbish and refill the tanks, enough money for the decants I want to try, enough money for Halloween lights, enough money for Orycon. I know, stupid, right? It's just I feel safer with the food there. I am happier watching the fish swim about. I am happier having enough sheets that I can simply change them when the cats vomit, without any drama. I am not big on material things just generally, but there really is a minimum. I have had to give out so much else.

* I love the idea of the schticky, but no way am I rewarding that ad campaign with my money.

* Rainbow Connection Cake: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2012/10/7/sunday-sweets-rainbow-connection.html