“it is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself.” -Henry David Thoreau

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The whole, woman putting the cats in the trash was enough to get me p.o.'d, now this? A girl, or guy with extremely long hair - tossing little cute baby puppies in a roaring river.

As often in these cases, many pages have been created on Facebook to call for vengeance. A group called "We must find this girl who throws puppies in a river"and had 1,200 people gathered Tuesday at noon.

"Throw it here in the river, "writes Dave Sherrid on this page.

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So I decided to try my whole hand at the Omaha Steak deal. If you're not familiar, Omaha Steak is a mail-order food company that prides itself on quality meats. In a world of e-coli, salmonella, and 16 year old Food Lion butchers who think fattening my roast increases their paycheck, I felt at the ripe old age of 33 I needed some security in my life. What's more is every steak I've ever purchased from the grocery store has been complete crap. I've tried finding a butcher locally that is open more than 1 hour every other week on months that end in "z" but it hasn't happened yet. (Still taking suggestions.) So I turned to Omaha steaks. They had been pressuring me for months after I joined their coupon club newsletter. Today it arrived... So far I'm impressed. Even the UPS driver was like "guess someone is eating good tonight." I was expecting some cardboard box, but got this massive cooler. Free cooler = free fishing floaty! Score.


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So my adrenaline is coming down after my two tests this morning. I've got 1.5 hours to spare sitting on a cold, dirty tiled floor somewhere deep within Davis Hall. It got me thinking about this darn grandma yesterday.
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Local NC insurance company called "Wedlock" is offering divorce insurance:

The casualty insurance is designed to provide financial assistance
in the form of cash to cover the costs of a divorce, such as legal proceedings or setting up a new apartment or house. It is sold in “units of protection.” Each unit costs $15.99 per month and provides $1,250 in coverage. So, if you bought 10 units, your initial coverage would be $12,500 and you’d be paying $15.99 per month for each of those units. In addition, every year, the company adds $250 in coverage for each unit.

Then, if you get divorced and your policy has matured (see below for the maturation rules), you would send WedLock proof of your divorce. In return, you’d receive a lump sum of cash equivalent to the amount of coverage you had purchased. cite

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An interesting study regarding the role of mental stimulus and how it affects late-life dementia. There's good news and, well, sort of bad news.

The good news is that when one gets older, approaching the danger zone for dementia, keeping active mentally will stave off the collapse of one's mind. Rather like physical exercise holds off the eventual collapse of the body. But that appears to only work for just so long, and when Alzheimer's does come along, the collapse is dramatically faster than it was for folks who spent their Golden Years watching Judge Judy and Wheel of Fortune.

The article presents this as a quality of life issue. If you're going to get the disorder anyway, it's best to keep it as short and as far toward the end of your life as possible. I believe that's true. I think it's far better to die of a heart attack than of congestive heart failure. I mean, if you're going to get a choice in the matter, I'd say stack the odds toward a short illness rather than a long, depressing decline....

James Lee, the man suspected of taking a hostage at the Discovery Channel headquarters, is an environmental protester who has been publishing criticisms of the network, according to a senior law enforcement official close to the investigation.


An angry manifesto posted on a website called http://www.SaveThePlanetProtest.com repeatedly refers to humans as "filth" and demands that the Discovery Channel
"stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants."

"Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is," the 1,149-word statement says.

"Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what's left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture," it continues. cite

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