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Spectacular thunderstorm going on here in the Bull City this Fourth of July; the folks who bought tickets for the fireworks are getting a different show than they bargained for. Mr. D. is watching the Twilight Zone marathon; the constant thunder and pounding rain and constant flashing are an appropriate backdrop. I’ve lit the candles, [...]

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I posted the other day about age discrimination. A 50+ friend of mine who has struggled with this issue commented to me via email—he didn’t want to make a public post lest some employer find it via Google. He also sent me a link to this article.
The gist of the article is (1) people don’t [...]

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“God was looking out for me that day,” Linda said, “because I called four different exterminators and none of them could come out for four or five hours and I was trapped in my house watching my animals die.”
This is the closing quote from the article Bees trap woman in home, kill her dog ‘Chewy’ [...]

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It’s amazing to me that places like this still exist:
Women at the [Phoenix Country Club] are not permitted to have lunch in the men’s grill room with their husbands after a round of golf; they have been barred from trophy ceremonies after tournaments, even ones they have sponsored…As teenage boys saunter into the sumptuously appointed [...]

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Facebook, the fast-growing company that now boasts the world’s biggest social-networking site, is planning to move from its ad-hoc, five-building “urban campus” in downtown Palo Alto to a nearby property that can accommodate the company’s expanding workforce.
Any such move figures to alter Facebook’s evolving internal culture while raising the average age of the workforce in [...]

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Stumbled on this news brief today about hackers putting seizure-triggering posts on an epilepsy board. Neurologically, migraines and epilepsy are cousins; flashing lights and patterns are a trigger for both.
It’s easy enough to see why someone would inflict harm on another for reasons of greed, hatred, political gain, etc.; anything in which the inflicter stands [...]

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Parents pick prayer over docs; girl dies

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And all this time I thought cow farts were the problem.
Sweden to study belching cows

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