Damn.

Evil things happened yesterday up the road from here in the town of Bailey. To nice young people, one of whom died. At school.
Maybe you had to be here back in 1999 to understand how hard the events at Columbine High School hit this entire metro area community.
I know it was a big national story, [...]

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New York Courts poised to chase lawyers off the Internet

I wish this were a bad joke, but sad to say it’s not. Several legal bloggers have been discussing this, including Consumer Law and Protection Blog: This Blog Is False and Misleading (in New York).

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Thoughts on goal setting and weight loss

Posted on a weight loss plan forum I’ve joined. Given the semi-anonymity of the forum, I’m not going to identify the forum or the poster, and this has been edited to remove references to the weight loss plan in question.

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Think they’ll be selling books too?

Snapped yesterday at Havana & Dartmouth:
 

 
 
Yes. It really says “convince store.”

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Caught goofing around

Yes, instead of doing all the things on my task list this Sunday, I’ve been sidetracked. I found Mary Kay Sucks – “another blog exposing the truth about Mary Kay Cosmetics.” Literate, with humor to leaven the anger.
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Should a lawyer go for a master’s degree in library and information science?

Specifically, should this lawyer do it?
It’s been on my mind for awhile. Online MLIS programs at some schools make it possible to do this without moving to another city or state.
Am I too old? Could I be admitted? Would it be a waste of time and money if I were? What [...]

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Just another weekend in Soggyville

Matri’s blog gives us a glimpse into yet another weekend as a resident of New Orleans. Which includes loading the tools in the car and helping to gut yet another home wrecked by the post-Katrina flooding. It reminded me that while I look at my calendar and calculate some balance of work and fun for [...]

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Finally, a reason to get a camera phone

Over at bad language, Matthew tells us that he uses his picture-taking cell phone to help him remember where he’s parked his car.
I don’t feel the need for that now, but it’s the first thing I’ve ever heard that makes me think I might someday want or need a cell phone that can take pictures.
For [...]

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Has she no shame?

Form your own opinion.
I’ve previously posted about CNN and Court TV superstar Nancy Grace’s being exposed for peddling a version of her history and career that’s a case of, well, Extreme Spin. As explained in this New York Observer article from March 2006.
Allow me, gentle readers, to digress here. What my momma and daddy taught [...]

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Another burning question answered!

Can diet soda make you fat?
This is not a silly question.  I love Diet Coke.  I am not getting any younger and my days of maintaining a normal weight while blithely ignoring nutritional common sense are (sob!) well and truly over.
Prevention magazine cites research that drinking diet soda does not make you fat, at least [...]

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Ann Richards on How to be a Good Republican

HT to Susan Sawatzky for this one. Rosie O’Donnell has posted Ann Richard’s tips on How to be a Good Republican. They seem a little dated; I suspect they were from the late 90’s or even the first bit of W’s theocratic regime, er, Administration, but they are still spot on.

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One thing in Texas I was sorry I missed

Ann Richards. I’d moved away before she was elected Governor. I’m sure this is the millionth blog to mention that she died this week. The Texas state archives has a nice online biography and a few good pictures, including this one, the original of which is here including the comment:
Ann Richards brought [...]

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Back to the future

Law prof Eric Muller has posted this commentary on Pope Benedict’s speech which has inflamed Muslim opinion.  His blog quotes at length the passage of the speech containing the objectionable statement, and links to the full text as well.
Hmm, here I was blithely thinking that bin Laden and his ilk are crazy and stuck mentally [...]

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Now here’s a dilemma

Which organization do I find less attractive: Wal-mart or the self-styled “American Family Association“?

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Avoid gimmicks

Tom Noel has weighed in on the Civic Center issue, with a column in today’s Rocky Mountain News. He urges the City fathers and mothers against submerging the classical grace and space there in a flood of gimmicks.

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Road trip

I leave early tomorrow morning on a road trip and won’t be back behind this counter until at least Friday night. Talk among yourselves while I’m gone.
A dear aunt, aged 90 and under home hospice care for several months, died last night. I’m driving the 10 hours to the old family stomping grounds [...]

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Okay, okay, I’ll look and think before I opine

. . . about the D. Libeskind “vision” for Denver’s Civic Center park which was unveiled this week. I really need to take a close look and think about it.
My initial reaction is negative:

Because I think the new addition to the Denver Art Museum that he designed is so awful and this certainly looks [...]

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Casting pearls before trolls

The wondrous multi-talented Maitri has posted an excellent status report on the New Orleans recovery from Katrina and the ensuing floods.
She says she wrote it after someone commented anonymously on her blog to the effect that people on the Mississippi Gulf Coast were rebuilding but that folks in New Orleans were just whining – after [...]

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One year later

Jeffrey over at Library Chronicles is posting one-year-ago-today pictures of the devastation in New Orleans. Powerful. I hope he keeps it up for several days.
He started blogging (I assume from out of town) about the post-Katrina drowning of the city as it was happening and links back to those posts too.

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