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I’d planned to get my snowblower ready for the winter, but was told it was not worth it to try to get it fixed up. (I’d gotten it second hand from a friend years back and used it hard clearing snow from a 500+ foot driveway in upstate New York.) I was...
by xaxnar
on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 01:20 PM PST
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I live in the Great Northeast, as the local media sometimes calls it. That means in the winter I can expect snow, sometimes in large amounts. (I grew up in western NY and moved east, trading Lake Effect blizzards for Nor’Easters. What a deal!) Well, a...
by xaxnar
on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 05:54 AM PDT
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Here at Top Comments we welcome longtime as well as brand new Daily Kos readers to join us at 10pm Eastern. We strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on...
by Chitown Kev
on Fri Mar 31, 2023 at 07:02 PM PDT
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Weirdly hard for me to make political cartoons in the current climate. It’s not simply that Trump is no longer really available as a target. And it’s certainly not that the Republicans don’t remain a serious and visible force for, well, basically,...
by Hilmbrown
on Sat Jun 12, 2021 at 12:43 PM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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Today, July 12, marks the anniversary of the birth of arguably the most “American” of American literature’s authors and philosophers, Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau enjoys iconic literary status, so rather than post a Google-researched redundant gloss of...
by Rudyard
on Sun Jul 12, 2020 at 08:13 AM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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Introduction
This is not a hard-hitting journalism piece — none of my writing here is. :) It is just a collection of some thoughts I’ve wanted to get out of my head.
Earlier this year I turned 50. As with many of you, many of my friends from high...
by LokiMom
on Thu Jul 18, 2019 at 05:05 AM PDT
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Such simple pleasures… bit of R&R from the cacophony of blah, blah, blah… Forever forwardly dreaming- 'BIGLY’!
by Shortmd
on Thu Jun 07, 2018 at 01:21 PM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” said Leonardo da Vinci. He was on to something.
Well-crafted sentences, paragraphs and books all have their place. But sometimes, three words, along with a first-grader’s color scheme, will suffice.
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by AlertCitZen
on Tue Dec 05, 2017 at 02:10 PM PST
with 3 Recommends
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[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]
One of the more frustrating aspects of being a political junkie is the relative simplicity of American politics, we have our district maps, wonky theory, polls up the ying-yang, driven and focused interest groups,
by paradox
on Wed Mar 16, 2016 at 07:48 AM PDT
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Heartfelt: more than a heart made of felt
The word “heartfelt” has two definitions, says my friend Merriam Webster: 'deeply felt' and 'very sincere.' Handmade gifts, according to me, make use ...
by Elizaveta
on Sun Apr 12, 2015 at 04:00 PM PDT
with 17 Recommends
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When I left home, I took a job working in the woods building hiking trails. Then I went to college, but after two quarters, I fled to the woods again to work on forest fire crew. I gave college a ...
by Elizaveta
on Sun Jan 18, 2015 at 04:00 PM PST
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This winter I’m working on getting rid of items that I’ve stuffed into closets and haven’t looked at in years. I've started going through all the of wool, yarn, fabric, knitting needles, and ...
by Elizaveta
on Sun Dec 07, 2014 at 04:00 PM PST
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This time of year, the internet is rife with ideas on how to cut down on consumerism and make the holidays more personal and meaningful. The web is also full of ways to maintain the status quo by ...
by Elizaveta
on Fri Nov 28, 2014 at 04:03 PM PST
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Muslim. Ebola. Obama.
Church of Christ. Meth. Tea Party.
Dead-enders. Get some. Let's roll.
Remember the Maine.
by Crashing Vor
on Fri Oct 03, 2014 at 07:10 PM PDT
with 25 Recommends
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Einstein on a bike February 6, 1933.
by citisven
on Mon Jul 28, 2014 at 03:35 PM PDT
with 37 Recommends
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A FP diary on Sunday by Laura Clawson argued that the run-away expenses of current weddings are equally the fault of the grooms. She is arguing, in part, to an article by Valerie Alexander who ...
by Frank Palmer
on Mon Dec 23, 2013 at 01:45 PM PST
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Glamorized consumer culture has serious side effects—and to help people in remote Indian villages understand this, one filmmaker brought them to the West. Here’s what they thought of the dark ...
by citisven
on Wed Oct 30, 2013 at 03:14 PM PDT
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Much interesting and valuable history and psychology in this essay by Freddie deBoer, despite some weak connections between different ideas, and an unfairly harsh reference to "the desperate ...
by emorej a Hong Kong
on Mon Sep 02, 2013 at 09:51 PM PDT
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Personal pride does not end with noble blood. It leads people to a fond value of their persons, especially if they have any pretence to shape or beauty. Some are so taken with themselves it would ...
by teacherken
on Fri Jul 19, 2013 at 11:41 AM PDT
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This is a rant that will make me sound older than I am. I was going to say like my mother, but really it’s more like my grandmother. She would be well over 100 if she were alive today. But my ...
by Elizaveta
on Mon Feb 18, 2013 at 06:23 PM PST
with 42 Recommends
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