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Stress Relievers 1940s Style

Sleep shop to mad scientist to convertible houses.  One question: Why are the kids in the front seat when the mother is in the back? Okay, one more: Do you think Dr. Laird is medicated? I'll have to try that forehead wrinkle remover exercise.

The Dissemblance of Fragility Tributes

Choosing words carefully not to offend, Giving less weight to ideas than intend, Dancing past meaning so each can pretend, Conflict semantics - not decisive end. Calling on memories when thoughts had merged, Sharing and daring, relationship surged, Prickly points poked but were too quickly purged, Dearer than different - tolerance urged. Teetering tenuous bridge of false hold, Wanting to save what appeared to be gold, Letting go one end and watching it fold; Realized in rubble, disvalues all told. Fearing once fondness forever then lost, Hiking the hit by remitting the cost, Cabled connections since tease to be tossed. Wreckage is wrought from fragility not frost. Slated with shallow words cried round the lands, Fated, one tower falls in spite of hands. Sounded lone truth, one reality bands, Founded on bedrock, that fortress still stands.

America vs. Clean Energy

What happens when the heavy hand of over-regulation conflicts with the forceful push of subsidized industry? When the first is the preservation of the very symbol of America and the second is the current Administration's love affair with "clean" energy development -- the eagle buys it . “These proposed changes will help facilitate the responsible development of renewable energy and other projects, while conserving bald and golden eagles by requiring key conservation and monitoring measures to be implemented,” said Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe. “We are committed to monitoring the impact of projects on eagle populations over the life of the permits to ensure these measures are effective.” From what I gather in the supporting documents *, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has some avian protection policies that are onerous on those trying to develop clean energy projects.  Therefore, the permits allowing a "non-purposeful take" of eagles are go

Cracked

“ What some of us want—those who aren’t blinded by a lot of bullshit persiflage thrown up to mask the idea that   rich folks want to keep their damn money —is for you to acknowledge that you couldn’t have made it in America   without  America. ” I found this statement to be the best in Stephen King’s recent diatribe . And what, pray tell, is it that Mr. King thinks makes America, America ? According to his essay he touts the equalization of income wrapped in a sash of fairness regarding income tax: rich people should pay more taxes because they are rich. This bears an eerie resemblance of “ from each according to his ability, to each according to his need ,” rather than what I understand to be essentially American: the right to one's own  life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ; equal under the law.   I’m afraid that in addition to many f-bombs, Mr. King has dropped the context. I can't comment on the tax code itself, because let's face it . . . it