sammy’s haircut and news!

This is sammy (sam schaefer-joel) getting a new haircut, zack looking on with disbelief at what sam has let him do. Photo by Lebn – posted with permission. Thanks. Great hair Sam! He wrote: Valparaiso, Chile. My new favorite city. It´s a cultural center of Chile, port town, steep hills covered with colorful houses–many with …

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More epilepsy!

Friday night I had another seizure. We were going to Lakewood so Alec could review a play and I started feeling weird while I was talking to my sister on the freeway. Alec was driving ~ I have never driven which turns out to be a VERY good thing. My sister says I used to …

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Rich Bastards Suffer, Too ~ and ~ Scaring The Pants Off Men

Immigration: The Human Cost The Onion Network News unpacks the claim that immigrants are taking jobs from American executives. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Scaring The Pants Off Men Last week saw Al Gore’s triumphant return to Capitol Hill—the once-ridiculed candidate now acknowledged as a visionary and treated with long-overdue respect. But the most remarkable moment of Gore’s hours …

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Obama to form gay advisory panel.

Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama was running a little behind schedule. He had just delivered a speech to the International Association of Fire Fighters at the Hyatt Hotel on Capitol Hill. Obama’s news hit, if there was to be one, was supposed to be his speech at the union’s presidential forum. But it was …

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“Generation on Fire” sounds like a fabulous book!

The political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s has become a subject blighted by misconceptions and stereotypes. To many, it is synonymous with widespread drug abuse, failed social experiments, and general irresponsibility. Few people remember that many of the freedoms and rights Americans enjoy today are the direct result of those who defied the established …

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Evolution of a feminist daughter ~ and ~ Favorite Daughter Peels Off Virgin Label

Evolution of a feminist daughter Rebecca Walker – the daughter of Alice Walker, the author of “The Color Purple,” and Mel Leventhal, a civil rights lawyer – was a nascent feminist when she laid bare the details of her freewheeling, lonely adolescence in 2001’s, “Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self.” The memoir, …

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