Earlier today, this Storycorps installment made me burst into sobs.
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https://twitter.com/TikTokCrock/status/541018340639395840 So last night, the folks on Jezebel were all set to hate-tweet NBC’s second annual live musical theater production. This time around, it was #PeterPanLive, starring Allison Williams, aka Brian Williams’ daughter and some kind of star on HBO or something we don’t watch. Once again, I set up to watch live, or as close to live as possible given that we had to put dinner together, but I caught up via TiVo. And I tweeted, and tweeted, and hung out at Jezebel in the “live blog,” trying to get out of the “greys” (the pending comments). Today, Jezebel…
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Creativity In The Woodshop Among Dartmouth’s Lathes And Saws, Lessons In Creativity In a woodshop on the Ivy League campus, Dudley Whitney shapes blocks of wood … and the lives of his students. Read at Google+
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… neither do their owners. Pig doesn’t fly: airline bans ‘disruptive’ emotional support animal and owner A woman and her pet porker are grounded after complaints from fellow passengers on flight from Hartford, Connecticut Read at Google+
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As you might have guessed, it was based on domestic abuse. An ex-boyfriend shot a woman on her 22nd birthday at the place she worked, because it was one place and time where he knew how to find her. The family member that let slip to him where she was working will have to deal with their lapse in judgement. I hope the young woman survives, her family had been planning a surprise birthday party for her when they got the awful news that her stalker ex-boyfriend had shot her at work. Apparently his parents are both cops, so the…
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Liverpool Anglican Church finds a trove of old toys and books BBC News – Trap door reveals Liverpool church ‘time capsule’ The rector at a church in Liverpool has made a surprising discovery after noticing a trap door in the ceiling. Read at Google+
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Interesting – other object found nearby, all stuck into tidal mud ‘Very Special’ Stone Age Axe Discovered Archaeologists have unearthed an incredibly rare flint axe from the Stone Age that just may have been used in an ancient ritual. The 5,500-year-old discovery — found jammed into the Earth with its wooden handle still attached — was part of an on… Read at Google+
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… but he appears to be an unrepentant asshole, just speaking more carefully to the press now. Disgraced DNA pioneer James Watson to sell his Nobel Prize medal US scientist wants to ‘re-enter public life’ after being shunned for seven years over his comment linking race and intelligence Read at Google+
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Not much accomplished today other than upgrading both the iPhone and iPad to the latest version of iOS, and also replacing a WordPress plugin with its replacement. Everything seems to be working – the plugin pulls in items I post at Google+ and is highly configurable. I may tinker with getting it to create items as asides. We ate lunch out at a neighborhood place, David and I, and then I had a nap. Pretty much a perfect day off. There are more upgrades contemplated, but tomorrow’s plan is pretty fuzzy.
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Always the way GOP ‘Payback’ to White Working Class That Voted Them in: Cut Earned Income Tax and Child Tax Credit President Obama does something Republicans don’t like on immigration, and their idea of payback is to stick it to working-class Americans who have kids, most of whom — when we are talking about whites — just voted to make them the majority party in… Read at Google+