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Jumping the Gun
Tales Of Two Cities 2 hours ago
Tomorrow evening, Columbia Councilperson (Harpers Choice), Cynthia Coyle is putting forth a motion to oppose any plans to construct buildings and ro ...
Happy Hour
Annethologie 8 hours ago
Yesterday, during a company-sponsored training class, I learned that I am a Fire, in the humorist temperament model. (Incidentally, this apparently ...
CA To Demur On Downtown Plan?
Columbia Talk 7:22 am on Wed Jul 23
The Sun/Flier's local news blog says CA's Board of Directors is set to vote on a motion to oppose a developer’s plan to construct buildings and ro ...
One billboard; two sides. ...
Rodricks On DWI Sentencing
Columbia Talk 7:25 am on Tue Jul 22
Sun columnist Dan Rodricks compares the sentences of two recent DWI-related cases:Friday, for instance, 26-year-old Matthew Miller pleaded guilty in ...
personal
frisky's
the cate chronicles 7 hours ago
My friend Jane sometimes finds injured baby animals on or near her property. She takes them to this sanctuary, where if possible, they are rehabilit ...
Hairy situation.
Finding Blanche 8 hours ago
American Laser Centers recently sent out a press release about a hair removal survey. They report that women spend more than $10,000 in their lifeti ...
Send In The Gnomes
Dinosaur Mom Chronicles 11:18 pm on Tue Jul 22
The San Francisco Chronicle totally plagarized LEP and/or the Underwear Gnomes to produce the brilliant analysis of Mommy Blogging they published ye ...
I’m not mad …
Jessie X 9:06 pm on Tue Jul 22
… just incredulous. This evening I found a barely chewed wad of gum placed on my car’s rear windshield. A Kleenex to deal with another ...
Note: Thank you all for amusing me in my verbal dump of ideas and thoughts from over the years. It’s rather cathartic to get this all out of t ...
One more pair of polls from Scott Rasmussen today for the state of Minnesota. In the race for the US Senate, Al Franken holds a slim 3% lead when & ...
One day after American Research Group released a poll showing Jeanne Shaheen with a 22% lead over Republican US Senator John Sununu, the University ...
FL: Obama Surges Into Lead
The Hedgehog Report 8 hours ago
Just one month ago, Scott Rasmussen claimed John McCain had a 7% lead in Florida. In a single month, Obama has erased that lead and now leads McCai ...
By Alejandro Lazo As U.S. businesses grow increasingly dependent on Hispanic workers, some are taking steps to integrate immigrant laborers into Ame ...
From staff and wire reports *SLM said its second-quarter profit fell 72 percent, to $266 million (50 cents a share) from $966 million ($1.03), as in ...
A study on the changing newspaper industry released this week by the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that most papers today were cutting ...
tech
Review: Nikon SB-900 Speedlight
Strobist 12:00 am on Wed Jul 23
I got a chance to play with a new Nikon SB-900 speedlight over the last few days and I gotta say, it's a pretty sweet flash. Long story short: Nikon ...
Like Platon, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders does most all of his portraiture with one, soft light. So he's an especially good person to lea ...
One-Light Night Landscape
Strobist 12:00 am on Mon Jul 21
New in the Strobist Reader Gallery is Jonathan Boeke's night shot of a stand of trees.It's done with multiple pops, during a time exposure. And it i ...