Posted on Saturday, 30th August 2008 by Maritzia
The Democratic National Convention of 2008 is over. We heard some great speeches, and I’d like to share with you some of the information and language that I found personally inspiring over the week. If you haven’t already watched these speeches, follow the links to them on YouTube. It’s well worth the time. Note: My [...]
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Posted on Friday, 29th August 2008 by Maritzia
Does anyone besides me think this is totally cool? I was Stumbling around and ran into this article. Obviously I had to give it a thumb’s up.
They’ve not only recovered the virus itself from corpses from the 1918 epidemic but have recovered antibodies to it from elderly survivors of the same epidemic.
What can I say, [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 28th August 2008 by Maritzia
I saw this post on Wise Bread. Did you even know tires had a shelf life? I sure didn’t. It had never even occurred to me to wonder. I read this and immediately ran out to check my tires. Luckily they were all made within a year or so of my buying them.
Seriously, go check [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 27th August 2008 by Maritzia
One wonderful thing about my marriage is that my husband has really widened my musical tastes. There’s just so much good music out there that you don’t hear on mainstream radio. Since we got our e-music subscription, we do a lot of just wandering through the listings and looking for music we enjoy.
Mary Gauthier (pronounced [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 26th August 2008 by Maritzia
“I know that while America may not be perfect, our union can always be perfected.” So says Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. His impassioned speech last night at the Democrative National Convention is worth seeing. You can see it posted at Shakesville.
I’ve always been particularly annoyed by the “America love it or leave it” crowd. Because [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 26th August 2008 by Maritzia
I recently discovered the blog, Meg Funk. Meg Funk is actually Sister Mary Margaret Funk, a Benedictine nun at Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, IN. While she, of course, writes from a Christian tradition, I find much of her writings on contemplative practice to resonate with me as a pagan.
One of her [...]
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Posted on Monday, 25th August 2008 by Maritzia
At least, that’s what a judge in Russia ruled.
According to the story on Telegraph.co.uk:
“The judge said he threw out the case not through lack of evidence but because the employer had acted gallantly rather than criminally.
“If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children,” the judge ruled.”
Please [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 24th August 2008 by Maritzia
You know…Oliver Willis, one of the bloggers that were invited to blog from the Democratic National Convention.
Don’t get me wrong. In general I like Oliver and his writing. I’ve been reading him for about 6 months, and like his political style enough that I can overlook his obsession with the Washington Redskins.
However, the thing I [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 24th August 2008 by Maritzia
“AIDS in America today is a black disease,” says Phill Wilson, founder and CEO of the institute and himself HIV-positive for 20 years. “2006 CDC data tell us that about half of the just over 1 million Americans living with HIV or AIDS are black.” Report from CNN.
So, why are we not seeing this on [...]
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Posted on Monday, 18th August 2008 by Maritzia
So, I got laid off a couple of weeks ago (I’ll do a catch up post to let you guys know everything that’s been happening to me recently, there’s a lot). The agency I worked for has just been losing money hand over fist, and they didn’t have many places they could cut. I was [...]
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