Bornfamous

Is everybody waiting anxiously for BlogShares to go alpha? The tension is more than I can stand!

Study: Rocket fuel is contaminating U.S. lettuce

Boston Globe: What Price Beauty?

First, there was the swarm of bees. I don’t know where they came from or where they went, but I had dozens of stings all over my body by the time they were gone. It was awful.
Next, came the rattlesnakes. They were everywhere. I successfully avoided the big ones as they struck home on the [...]

Cutbacks Imperil Health Coverage for States’ Poor

Okay, I think I figured out how to fix the problem. I’ll just separate the personal stuff from the other stuff [war, politics, environment] and have two blogs–duh!
Great–something else to fiddle with instead of earning money.
UPDATE: Well, double duh! Each category has its own page already. You can check categories on the left. And [...]

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Become a Swing State Volunteer in your region and help ensure the defeat of Bush in 2004.

What we are seeing now from the far right is not conservatism at all. It is fascism: the imposition of a national and worldwide police state to enforce a narrow world view that enriches and empowers the few at the expense of the many, and that gives no respect or honor to other cultures, ways [...]

I’m so depressed. Overwhelmed, really, at the magnitude of my debt, household clutter, and lack of energy to deal with either.
Too tired to go into detail, but let’s just say it’s hopeless and getting worse.

US Ag Dept: Mosquito-killing virus may help slow West Nile spread

My niece is driving us crazy. She’s got some serious behavior issues [okay, she's a demon child] and her mom is having a hard time. I try to help but don’t want to butt in too far and make things worse. Mom called dad in desperation yesterday and he picked her up last night–three days [...]

UN: Iraq facing massive problems of pollution, environmental destruction

NYTimes.com:Students in a Fog

Pentagon: Overexposure to pesticides may have contributed to Gulf War illness

I’m sorry, I truly am.
I don’t want to bore you to tears with all these shrill environmental warnings and anti-war links. I know you don’t want to read this stuff. At the very least, you want to read original rants instead of regurgitated quotes from other sites. What you’d probably prefer is the kind [...]