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member name: Anitra Raging Granny / Raging Moderate Freeman
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June 02, 2007 02:54 PM EDT --
I have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and there is a flip side to ADD that not many people know about: when our attention does get fixed on something, it stays fixed! This is called "hyperfocus" . . .
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May 19, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
This is the text of a speech I gave at the Washington State Coalition for the Homeless on May 9 (2007). A lot of background knowledge is assumed that the audience here might not share with Coalition . . .
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May 30, 2007 06:22 PM EDT --
In the public debate on abortion, the stand called "pro-life" is generally identified as the Christian viewpoint. It is not, however, the only Christian viewpoint. A far more common . . .
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May 21, 2007 01:40 AM EDT --
The title of one of Jim Hightower's books is There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Lines and Dead Armadillos. The attitude is generally shared even by those on the opposite . . .
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May 31, 2007 04:33 AM EDT --
Do you find that, no matter what your intentions are, your work schedule increasingly cuts into your Gather time?
Do your Gather connections complain that your obsession with eating and sleeping is lowering . . .
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May 05, 2007 03:04 AM EDT --
The "culture wars" over "who shall define truth" are made passionate both because the accuracy of our knowledge is essential to our physical survival, and because the security of our . . .
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May 19, 2007 04:44 PM EDT --
I think the idea of this is to publish five things about yourself that are not commonly known, then challenge five other people to do the same thing. Gayle was the one who challenged me in her five . . .
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May 05, 2007 01:34 PM EDT --
There have been conservatives and liberals ever since Og the caveman went out to meet the new guys who came over the hill while Gog barricaded himself in the cave and sharpened extra flints.
A healthy . . .
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May 29, 2007 03:35 AM EDT --
How collective decision-making works well; how it goes wrong.
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
Anchor; Reprint edition (August 16, 2005), $14
ISBN: 0385721706
New Yorker business columnist James . . .
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May 03, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings . . .
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