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Archive of posts published in the category: Culture

Eight Things that Piss Me Off.. and what can be done about it.

Random ideas to decrease life’s annoyances. 1. At the doctor- do not make me fill out the same data I filled out the last time I was there. Print a copy of my file and ask me to correct it.

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Stuff White People Like

Like ‘The Truth About Chuck Norris’, ‘Stuff White People Like’ started out as a whimsical to nonsensical collection that became so popular on line that publishers sought to bring the content to the printed page and pursued the creators to

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Man’s Best Friend

IS it just me or is the July 4th news just getting too weird. Dogs Used in Pornography Films to Be Spared Death from Fox News Excerpt “The undersheriff has rethought his position on the dogs involved in the pornography,”

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Never Too Old

Grandma, 70, Gives Birth to Twinsfrom Foxnews Excerpt Panwar, who has two adult daughters and five grandchildren, underwent in-vitro fertility treatment so she could produce a male heir.Her husband, Charan Singh Panwar, 77, mortgaged his land, sold his buffalos, spent

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The Key to Immortality

Compound in Red Wine Fights Ravages of AgeBy Alan MozesHealthDay ReporterThursday, July 3, 2008; 12:00 AM the entire article Excerpt “But red wine is a good source of resveratrol,” he added. “And, in this mouse study, we have shown that

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Informatics

One can now major in Informatics, the newest program at Indiana University. It is in repsonse to the need to understand, organize and utilize the vast information at our fingertips. Yes, I feel as outdated as when I view a

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Surrounded By Information

I was at Indiana University touring the campus with a group of parents while my daughter Natalie was registering for fall classes. As I was looking up at the tower rising above the student union building I recalled the tragedy

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So Guess Who Owns the Christian Dating Website?

Christian dating website BigChurch.com is owned by Penthouse, the Avis of the ‘legitimate’ porn crowd. The internet is hurting porn sales because so much is now available for free. (There goes that irony again.) Penthouse was acquired by a group

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