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Music Room #13 - Guitar Hero, Threat or Menace?
After the horrific Columbine school shooting, some people blamed video games for the perpetrators' violent behavior. Scores of war simulations, shooting fantasies, and violent attack games, the...
View ArticleCalifornia Wildfires: Liveblog XXXV -- 9:24 PM PDT
DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DIARY. Go RECOMMEND THE MOTHERSHIP and keep it in the Recommended Diary list.This is the thirty-fifth in a series of diaries providing information regarding the California...
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The Music Room Returns! #14 - CA Wildfire Edition
After helping out with the liveblogging effort covering the wildfires in Southern California, I realized it's time to bring back the Music Room series.Natural disasters can cause havoc in anyone's...
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McCain's campaign on fire, reversed, stopped
On Tuesday night, InsultComicDog posted one of the funniest diaries in a long time. John McCain's forward-thinking campaign crew decided he needed one them intertubes websight doohickies, and they set...
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The Music Room #15 - Fathers Day Edition
It's been too long since I ran one of these! So let's call this one a Fathers Day Present, either to you, your dad, or that special Dad to someone else in your life.How did your dad affect your view...
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The Music Room #16 - Gotta Have Gear
Every hobby has its own panoply of bizarre-looking tools, machines, and items that a non-hobbyist can't possibly understand by just picking it up and looking at it. Why should music be any...
View ArticleMove My Money: Stage I Accomplished (w/poll)
Today I opened a new account at a local credit union.I've got an account at Wells Fargo... and it hasn't far to go... away. I called a local credit union, confirmed I could open an account with them,...
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Move My Money: Complete! Hyah, Wells Fargo! (+ poll!)
In a previous diary, I mentioned that I wanted to be part of Operation Move Your Money, so I opened up a new account at a local credit union.Since my new checks arrived and my initial deposit cleared,...
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Is Komen Planning to Replace Karen Handel?
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has written the textbook on how not to manage an institutional crisis. Last Tuesday, we learned the breast cancer charity was no longer going to fund Planned Parenthood's...
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ACTION DIARY: Support Sandra Fluke... in 30 seconds
This diary is going to be short and sweet, because this is one of the simplest ways for us to show our support to Sandra Fluke.As you've all been following, Sandra Fluke is the Georgetown Law student...
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HELP! My Credit Union wants to become a Bank!
Big banks have been getting some big lumps, and progressives have responded by encouraging depositors to Move Your Money to a Credit Union. But what if your Credit Union decides it would rather be a...
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How to Destroy a Top Notch School District: Open a Charter School!
In yesterday's War on Workers weekly entry, Laura Clawson had a link to this fascinating story of the Los Altos (CA) school district and their woes with an "extremely litigious charter school." I had...
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