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Well, at least Bush still has his heart (Cheney).

I HATE Evian -- I think it tastes flat. But NYC water is the BEST!!!! If they ever decide to bottle it, I'll buy it in a heartbeat!

There are several books in the series by Maupin, and at least one stand alone novel -- I think, it's been years since I read them. If you're going to read more than one of the books in the series, you should read them in order. As I recall, the first one is one of the best ones.

I won't say where I, um, stand on the Crocs issue -- but I remember seeing a picture or two of Edge in Crocs a while back....:wink:

You're NOT the only one reading this one. I've been loving it -- but haven't had time to post. I'm looking forward to MORE -- and to seeing how/if things get resolved.

-The first time someone called me "Ma'm". -When I made a funny grunt/sigh noise getting into a hot bath. -When after I carefully explained to a young child that Abraham Lincoln lived over a hundred years ago, the child looked me straight in the eye and said "Well, did you know him?" -When I...

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I think that the argument for DC's "Southern" identity can be made on both sides. Wasn't it JFK who called DC a city of "Northern charm and Southern efficiency"? :wink: Ouch!

Try Petworth, Riggs (I'm not sure if this neighborhood has another name), the Georgia Avenue corridor, or Anacostia, or any of a number of NW neighborhoods East (?) of Rock Creek Park. Many DC natives have parents or grandparents who moved up to DC from the South, and those are the accents...

Somewhere I have a cookbook called something like "How to Eat like a Southerner -- and Live to Tell About It". And Paul Prudhomme's sister wrote a low-fat Cajun cookbook. Just in case any of y'all need a few helpful hints! Also, for you NOVA folks -- Southern accents are alive and well in...

Hmmm. How can it be that when people say things that are offensive -- they act surprised when others are actually offended?!

Kosher for Passover Coke -- it's made with sugar instead of corn syrup, so it tastes like the "real" Coke of my childhood....

["Once again, I have made an ass of myself trying to get to a phone," adding, "you have insulted me for the last time." , "I don't give a damn that you're 12-years-old or 11-years-old, or a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the ass who doesn't care about what you do." The...

Sodas at Whole Foods stores are made with sugar, as is kosher for Passover Coke.

I wonder if anyone has carefully examined the impact of the plants that the bees are pollinating on the bees -- and their immune systems. As modified 'franken-foods' become more prevalent -- long-term risks may become more prevelant as well. The impact on bees might well prove to be an...

You may not view yourself as a racist -- but you might want to be a wee tad careful about the racial stereotypes that you're flinging around. The "African-American community" includes a lot of people with a lot of viewpoints. If you're referring to Sharpton, for example, why would you assume...

Yeah, I do. Until very very recently (i.e. within my lifetime :wink: ) Black women and girls were portrayed in the media, in literature, and in many non-Black people's minds as maids/Mammy's or as whores. Images of Black females as teachers, as mothers, as students, as achievers, as the cute...

I'm not sure exactly who you are referring to when you say "we", but in my experience, people who CAN "forget about the color barrier", and indeed, people who WANT to "forget about the color barrier" are people for whom color is not a barrier.

I loved it.....Peter Weller! I never quite got the plot though...:wink:

I'm not a techie, but I've had this problem a couple of times with my Windows laptop. I can hear system sounds, but couldn't use my media players, and sometimes the sound effects on games have stopped as well. Doing the Windows updates seemed to fix the problem. Hope your sound is working now!

I had a similar problem recently. I couldn't play any songs in i-tunes, or on my windows media player. I decided to wait it out until I could get someone to help me with it. Before I could get help, I had an automatic Windows update -- and now both media players are working fine. Sometimes...

As I read this thread: Imus Calls Rutgers Women's Basketball Team "Nappy Headed Hos" I thought about THIS one. These young women were once young girls. They envisioned themselves as students, and as athletes. And as achievers. Now they have to deal with the nasty public rantings of...

You didn't say exactly what about the teaching job was stressful -- so...as others have said, you might want to try a different type of teaching. Tutoring -- either privately or with an educational organization -- might be a good way to go. You would get a lot of what most people like about...

I would imagine that many of the more "hilarious" responses are by people who are used to seeing themselves reflected in their culture. If you resemble the person in the ads, in the movies, in the textbooks, on the cover of the gamebox, in the interviewer's chair when you go in for a job...