Of course it did. Something rather Watergatesque about it all.
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20 heroic librarians who save the world - If information is power, then there's no hero mightier than a librarian. Librarians are superheroes, adventurers, explorers and invaluable guides to other ...28 minutes ago
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How We Brought Our Employee Turnover Rate to (Nearly) Zero - By Jennifer Kimmich, owner of the Alchemist Cannery, a brewery in Vermont. For nearly 30 years, I have worked in the service sector and in this time I’ve w...2 hours ago
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The devastating impact of vaccine deniers, in one measles chart - There were 644 new measles cases in 27 states last year, according to the CDC. That's the biggest annual number we've seen in nearly a quarter-century. The...16 hours ago
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Some CDTA routes to see more frequent service - The Capital District Transportation Authority said Friday it plans to increase the frequency at which buses operate on some of its routes, effective Sunday...1 day ago
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60 Years of Urban Change - Visually, how NYS cities (Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse Rochester) have changed in three score years.1 day ago
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THE RIGHT BLOG - Some Bloggers, me included have several blogs. So when it comes to comments you sometimes have to do hard and time consuming investigations to find out on...
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Alan Moore's Twilight Proposal - Introduction by Alan David Doane: Honestly I didn't intend the irony, but this week's FMF, looking at Alan Moore's never-published Twilight proposal, also ...
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People I Know
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1/25/15: Today’s Tips: Sunday - MUSIC: The Holly & Evan Band @ Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs. The blues duo brings the whole band, including drummer Bob Morris and saxman Josh Greenberg. W...3 hours ago
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The Times Union’s “Buddies Ambition Club” - So I found a very interesting piece of the Times Union’s history. And I have absolutely no idea what it’s supposed to represent. It’s a copper, coin-shape...8 hours ago
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At the 2015 State of the University Address, Chancellor Zimpher Calls for Increased Investment, More Graduates, Accountability and Success Across 64 Campuses - You may have noticed that the Big Ideas Blog was silent this week with no new posts. Fear not, loyal readers. The Offices of Communications and New Media w...1 day ago
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Mike Glier at Opalka Gallery - The image above and other images accompanying this article are by Mike GlierThe title of the current show at Sage College of Albany's Opalka Gallery - *mean...6 days ago
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Destroying The County Government - The Legislature of Albany County takes a big step toward ineffectiveness and illegitimacy by reducing representation just a little bit2 weeks ago
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Coming Soon! - [image: Coming Soon!] Charles Forsman (Snake Oil, The End of the Fucking World/TEOTFW, Celebrated Summer, Teen Creeps, Oily Comics, etc.) and I are wrappi...1 year ago
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Art News: Is It a New Leonardo or Not? - The debate all began in October, when the Italian newspaper Corriere...1 year ago
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56 and Counting - Another year passed of blithely ignoring my blog! I debated closing down the account and chalking it up to yet another neglected hobby, but decided to log ...1 year ago
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It Changes - Living with Lupus and Fibro and Asthma is often not so much 'one day at a time.' It is much more like one fifteen minute segment of time - at at time. This...1 year ago
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Turtle Love - *Some legacies come in the form of riches - mine, a turtle.**. *Shelly joined our family last August. She was, I'll now admit, a product of pure impulse, ...1 year ago
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April showers bring May flowers - April showers bring May flowers, and what did the Mayflower bring? …seasonal allergies.1 year ago
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The meal is over - *Author's note: * *I found the following post - never completed, which was written on the day of the "Grand Opening" of the Brunswick Woods new constructio...1 year ago
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Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye… - Well, kids, this is it. I’m leaving first thing tomorrow morning. My visits home will be few and far between, and when they happen, they’ll be exclusi...2 years ago
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Passed my NREMT – I can be mobile now :) - I decided to study for and take the NREMT exam – the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians – while the information was still fresh in my brain...2 years ago
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I've earned my degree! - It takes 4 years to get through high school. 4 years to earn a college degree. And I think it takes 4 years of choosing to be carfree in Albany to embrace ...3 years ago
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Spring is here? - As far as the pro peloton goes, it’s on! I watched the Tour of Flanders today, and it was one of the best races I’ve ever seen. “Looking back, you get a b...3 years ago
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Modern Types-Ronald Searle,Geoffrey Gorer - With the recent attention given to Ronald Searle's 90th birthday and new interview,I decided to look at one of his books. The book is titled Modern Ty...4 years ago
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Eclectic Folks
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Berowne's 255 - *No quiz this week. Instead, here’s another episode of the ongoing series: Berowne’s Mediocre Adventures.* From time to time I’ve written about my work as...6 hours ago
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It’s all about keyboard feel - For the touch-typists among us, there is a little raised section on the F and J keys, so you’ll always know where your home row is. (Those of us who never ...12 hours ago
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Beneful Continues To Take Off - Beneful brand dog food is a product from Purina. This line of dog food was first introduced to the store shelves in 2001. It is available in wet and dry fo...19 hours ago
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Sunday Secrets - Listen to dozens of final voicemails from loved ones or share your own. Listen to dozens of final voicemails from loved ones or share your own.19 hours ago
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Life, Currently: A Health Report - When I started trying to talk honestly about my attempts to lose weight so many years ago, I didn't think I'd end up documenting a long struggle with menta...1 day ago
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The future of computing? - Based only on what’s already happened, it seems to me that the future of computing is clearly interactive, and will quite probably involve greater immersi...1 day ago
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AmeriNZ 307 – Selfie - A new year, and my birthday is over. An audio clip about that begins this episode before I go on to talking about what we did on our summer holiday. We did...2 days ago
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Something for Thursday - Seems a bit of light-hearted music is called for this morning, so here are a few selections of such.3 days ago
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A Wanting Prayer - Dear Father, I don’t want to want what I want; rather, I want to want what you want me to want. Amen ******* Yes, the repetitiveness of this prayer is some...3 days ago
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Lowering the boom.... - It all started with one very badly written letter. Kind of an inauspicious way to announce the end of an era, huh? I still cringe* when I look at it. ...4 days ago
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Resources – Living Memory - Group Reading Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” Haruki Murakami One- The days aren’t discarded or collected, All- they a...4 days ago
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B is for Bang! Big bang. - One thing I use my blog for is a point of reference. A few weeks ago we were sitting in the snug when there was an almighty BANG from the kitchen, blowing ...5 days ago
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Parade day! - It's Civil Rights Day, and the principal at Norah's school arranged for a place in the Mesa parade celebrating civil rights. Norah, a veteran of more than ...5 days ago
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Our World Tuesday, ABC Wednesday, B for Bathmen - *The church of Bathmen dates from the early 14th century* *Bathmen* is a town in the eastern Netherlands. The municipality was merged with her larger ne...6 days ago
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Friday Pussy - Blanket covered edition - The ongoing news is enough to make a manic depressed. From today's ongoing breaking news: Anti terror raids in Belgium Gunmen attack French magazine Cha...1 week ago
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Remembering December - What did I find this week? I found that December came and left before I knew what happened. It’s now the middle of January. Did I do a December collage? I ...1 week ago
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Missing Once and Again. Again - In reaction to this post by Linda Holmes at the Monkey See blog, I had some thoughts: 1. That I missed out on that Twitter conversation? Kills me. I ADOR...2 weeks ago
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Zentangled - Zentangled Doodlers delight in empty margins Empty spaces need a bit of this and that My teachers hounded me for scribbling Riley suffered the same fate in...2 weeks ago
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Word of the Year round-up - Since I presented four Words of the Year in four posts, I thought it might be useful to have one post that lists all four. Then I thought: why not have a l...3 weeks ago
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GayProf's Holiday Gift Guide 2014 - Holidays always seem like a period of extreme endurance to me. For weeks we struggle with crowds of shoppers, awkward conversations with distant relatives...4 weeks ago
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Oops! - I knew it would happen someday, but I was surprised when it actually did. The 12th anniversary of this blog came and went on October 24th, unremarked upo...5 weeks ago
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Happy Hanukkah! - Here's a link to my short review of Daniel Pinkwater's wonderful picture book. http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2014/12/happy-hanukkah/.5 weeks ago
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Something to Be Learned from the Christmas Season and War - Sunday night, as I made a quick notation in my journal, I noticed the date: December 7th. December 7th is a day that makes me catch my breath each year i...1 month ago
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Eddie Floyd - In 1955, when he was twenty years old, Eddie Floyd co-founded the Detroit-based soul group The Falcons, who would score a major R&B hit four years later wi...1 month ago
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Q is for QUESTIONS - Hi everyone! As most of you know, I've been unable to continue on a regular basis with ABC Wednesday because of my husband's health issues. I'm sure you...2 months ago
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An Update on Me (And New Beginnings) - It's been an interesting year for the Browns. Kelly got a job at the start of the year and got an even better job soon after. It's been amazing to see he...2 months ago
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The End of a Long Day - You know those days where all you really want to do is change into your pajamas and curl up on the couch while you decide which comfort food would mak...4 months ago
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The start of video blogging? - Who knows. But, here’s one that might be the first. The post The start of video blogging? appeared first on Wayne John.6 months ago
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X is for Xenophobe - X is the most e*X*asperating letter of the ABC Wednesday alphabet as there not many subjects to choose from when you're writing about the e*X*emplars of ec...7 months ago
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Easter Comic-Book Peeps Revisited - [image: Who Watches the Watchpeeps] [image: Peep Lantern Corps] [image: Peep Titans] [image: Uncanny X-Peeps] [image: PeepVengers Assemble] [image: JLP]9 months ago
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Influenster #JollyVoxBox - I was selected to receive that #JollyVoxBox from Influenster and wanted to give you the quick low down on everything that was in the box. I got an NYC HD...1 year ago
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Thor 2: Dark World Review (Spoiler Alert) - *Spoiler Alert* Back in August, when the last trailer for *Thor 2* premiered, I made a prediction based solely on that trailer about what I would see. I...1 year ago
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#Freaking Out -AND! - Calmly completely freaking out about my move. AND! I quit smoking. I feel this qualifies me to have an opinion on how to do it. So I am calmly completel...1 year ago
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Gaze Upon My Works and Snicker, Part 53. - [image: DP700-F365028] Another quickie sketch at work, because I wanted to draw Pandora A in a white fuzzy hat (no, I don't know the name for them) and a b...1 year ago
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VOTE IN THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION!!! - [image: The Lost Voice - 2012 Presidential Election - Jason Corrigan] If you do anything today, make sure you get out and vote in today's elections!!! Whet...2 years ago
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Stardoll 1: Secrets & Dreams1 year ago
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Gerber Gets the Finger!1 year ago
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Media Blogs
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Maybe my favorite bad review - I've posted this before, years ago, but it's one of my all-time favorites. Do you remember a comedian named Gallagher? I think he's still around. His basi...2 hours ago
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Eat your cereal out of a zombie's rotting brainpan - Or better yet, some kind of greyish custard: $13 from Thinkgeek, dishwasher/microwave safe. (*via Geeky Merch*)9 hours ago
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Biden Co-Presents Best New Starlet Award With Shyla Stylez At 2015 AVN Adult Movie Awards Show - LAS VEGAS—After winking and giving a thumbs-up to several female attendees seated in the front row as he crossed the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino stage, Vice...13 hours ago
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Obama R-Day visit: 45000 securitymen turn Delhi into fortress - BILKUL - IBNLive *Obama R-Day visit: 45000 securitymen turn Delhi into fortress* *BILKUL* Bilkul News, New Delhi, Jan 24: Over 1,000 NSG snipers and 44,000 Delhi Po...1 day ago
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Rex Smith: Free speech, friendship and flogging - There are rules to everything. How rules are imposed and enforced can tell you a lot. Take federal regulations, for example. Say you want to raise fresh pr...1 day ago
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65 Awesome Hair Days - The post 65 Awesome Hair Days appeared first on AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com.1 day ago
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Coverville 1064: The INXS Cover Story II - Covers this week of INXS and a couple of the lead singers that filled in after Michael Hutchence’s passing – Jimmy Barnes and Terence Trent D’Arby! (82 min...1 day ago
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Lake Erie Ice and Syracuse & Rochester Slowly Closing Snow Gap - A Big Thanks to Jack R. for your donation to the snow site. They really help offset some costs and time spent on the site. Thanks again Jack ———————————— B...5 days ago
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INaPt NAmEs - Breaking Bad aired its last episode well over a year ago, but I just got the Blu-rays for Christmas and am currently doing a massive binge-watch. So pardon...2 weeks ago
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New York Times column used quote from fake news site ‘without attribution’ - A late entry for 2014′s Correction of the Year comes from The New York Times. It features an early version of a column published in error; a quote taken f...2 months ago
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Prelude to Upfronts: Cancellations and Pick-ups - Before I started this blog, the whole business of “Network Upfronts” was as foreign as the Greek language to me. All I knew is that sometime in May the US ...8 months ago
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Play reveals how Paul got Fixing a Hole from Mal Evans - The play "Beatle Mal," based on Beatles roadie Mal Evans, was performed for one night only in Liverpool, Sept 28th. In the play, it is revealed how Paul go...1 year ago
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Outguess Ebert winner: A flawless performance - [image: Thumb_eb20130313commentary130319997ar] Alex Kazhinsky of Lincolnwood is this year's Grand Prize winner in the annual Outguess Ebert contest — and...1 year ago
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Week 17 NFL Picks - Last week’s 10 wins leaves me with 153 wins. Weak season. Sorry. Week 17 picks NFL Picks Away Home Chicago Detroit NY Jets Buffalo Tampa Bay Atlanta Caroli...2 years ago
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Obama’s speech coverage on NPR - What were the people at NPR thinking? The coverage of President Obama’s speech on National Public Radio on Wednesday was just awful. I’ve never minded anal...3 years ago
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Politics, Policy Blogs
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When the state claims custody of a fetus, it requires an incubator - [image: Leg shackles.] On Thursday, January 22, having failed to win a pardon from the El Salvadoran justice system, a young woman won her freedom after a p...46 minutes ago
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Photo: Sunapee sunset glows yellow, red and blue - The setting sun streaks the sky with vivid colors in Sunapee, New Hampshire.1 day ago
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1.22.15 BROAD BAND - This article originally appeared in the 1.22.15 issue of Metroland. All kinds of fun on the broadband front. Finally, we’re seeing some leadership that ...3 days ago
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Is All Your Business Coming By Referral? It Shouldn’t Be - Does all your business come by referral? That’s not necessarily something you want to brag about. In this video, I explain why this common boast is actuall...4 days ago
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Denying Racism in Cape Town Is About Lack of Empathy - by Guest Contributor Luso Mnthali, originally published at AfriPop I was on radio the other day, trying to explain to Shado Twala, well-known radio and t...5 days ago
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Announcing Our New Freedom of the Press Foundation Board Member, Edward Snowden - I’m proud and honored to announce our new Freedom of the Press Foundation board member, Edward Snowden. Here’s what I said in today’s press release: [Snowd...1 year ago
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2PP094 – 27 November 2013 - Arthur starts off today talking about why there was such a gap in episodes—including Arthur’s marriage—only to have this one delayed by his work schedule. ...1 year ago
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BLACK GIRLS ROCK! Celebrates the Diversity and Achievements of Women of Color - *Last night BET aired "Black Girls Rock! 2013," an awards show** highlighting the accomplishments of women of color.* Along with live performances from t...1 year ago
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Holy Trollers: How to argue about religion online - Reblogged from CNN Belief Blog: By John Blake, CNN (CNN) --"Yo mama..." Whenever I heard those two words while growing up in inner-city Baltimore, I knew s...1 year ago
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The Long-term Consequences of WLS - Rich & Heather's Story - My name is Rich, but I may be better known to some of you as richie79 of the UK who used to post prolifically here on Big Fat Blog and elsewhere in the F...1 year ago
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This Is Not A Joke - A new ball game - with tasers. Hat-tip : The Volokh Conspiracy According to The Daily Caller, Eric Prum, one of the founders of Ultimate Tak Ball, said, ...2 years ago
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SOPA and PIPA: Millions Speak Out But Will The Few Listen? - On January 18, 2012, major internet sites went dark to express their opposition to parallel bills in the House and Senate, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) ...3 years ago
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THIS BLOG NOW MOVED. Follow the link below. Thank you! - THIS LINK TAKES YOU TO THE NEW SITE, SAME BLOG Please join me and subscribe over there. Thank you for following my work and writing.3 years ago
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No, no...I am sure they have a perfectly good and honest reason for it. Really. ;)
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