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Owens Votes FOR Healthcare Bill, Had Scozzofava Won, Bill Might not Have Passed

Brand new Congressman Bill Owens (D-NY23) voted tonight for the passing Healthcare bill.

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The COH--Is It Fairly Applied?

I just received an email from the powers that be telling me that I am no longer allowed to comment in a particular user's seeds/articles, which has made me laugh, given that this particular person is constantly getting away with COH violations with nary a peep from moderators.

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The Wacky Witch from Wasilla

You get one guess. Yup, just one.

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Fall TV Premiers--Which are You Looking Most Forward to?

Ah, August. The dog days of summer, when one's mind starts turning to fall and all it brings--pumpkins, shorter days and season premiers for TV shows.

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Conservatives Boycott, Too

I've been involved in two of the discussions regarding the remarks by John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods.

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Alcatraz: Life (Part II)

So there I was, enjoying my days on Alcatraz, but summer was drawing to a close.

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New Group Mods Needed: Creation vs. Evolution and Living with Less Groups

Hello, Viners! I am one of the group moderators for two fairly large groups on the site and have been remiss in my duties, largely because I don't use the groups much.

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Hooray? for Dentists

Dentists are amongst the unsung heroes of the medical word. Often--usually the brunt of jokes, the focus of our fears, the person we least want to see in a day. But I have to say, when a dentist is needed, there is no one you want to see more.

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My Time on the Rock--the Beginning

In my first years in San Francisco, I was fortunate enough to have been employed by the Golden Gate Parks Conservancy on Alcatraz Island. Yes, the Alcatraz Island, with the cellhouse and tourists.

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Alone in a Restaurant

Last week, I wrote an article about your favorite things to eat when home alone for dinner, based on the book I recently picked up, Alone In the Kitchen with an Eggplant, a compilation of stories about what people eat when they are on their own, edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler.

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Is This Group Really a Good Thing for Newsvine?

I was just reading a seed and came across a poster whose only comment is that he was clipping the seed to this group: The group is of course, a closed group. The group description: Depository of demonstrably dumb democrat doo-doo.

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Fun at the Market

I am one of the odd folks who enjoy the weekly or so trip to the market to food shop. I attribute this to a love of cooking and food as well as having what has to be the most fun market in the world as my "corner store"--Trader Joe's.

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Eating alone

I recently picked up Alone In the Kitchen with an Eggplant, a compilation of stories about what people eat when they are on their own, edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler. It was a fascinating read.

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True Master Chefs, A Review of Top Chef Masters

What a delight the past 2 months have been on Wednesday nights, with the addition of Top Chef Masters to the Bravo lineup.

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Flying--is it worth it?

This week I had my first brush with flying since 9/11. I hate to fly. I don't like having to arrive nearly 2 hours early, the inevitable delays and being stuck in a metal tube at 40,000 feet for even 65 minutes.

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How to overcome fear of flying?

9 days from now, I will be boarding a plane and doing what I didn't think I would ever do again--fly.

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Economics Can be Interesting

Yesterday was a day of museums and getting smarter here in my own life. After lunch, my boss approached and asked if I wanted to go on a field trip to the Federal Reserve here in SF. A coworker's friend had organized a tour and bodies were needed.

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What if...

McCain had won in November? How would things be different? Aside from poor Bristol and Levi being forced into a shotgun Rose Garden wedding, McCain suspending the government every few days and changing his views every hour, and Rush being the Press Secretary?

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Eight Legged Hostage Taker

I am being held hostage in my own apartment by someone maybe 1/1000th the size of myself. Someone with eight eyes, eight legs and a creepy demeanor.

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Review: The New California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)

Admittedly, I was a bit leery when I heard years ago that the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park was to be rebuilt--would we be losing the gators that greeted one at the entry? Or the round-about aquarium, truly a marvel to my childhood eyes.

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Tax Cuts Can't Save This Economy

Ask almost any die-hard Republican and they'll tell you the same thing, The problem with Democrats, they'll say, is that they think they know better how to spend your money than you do. Sometimes, that can be a fair criticism. Sometimes, Democrats do think that.

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Sarah Palin in "How Obama Got Elected" - The Top Ten Most Annoying Points

In no particular order, these are the top ten things that bugged me while watching the newly released clip of Sarah Palin's contribution to the upcoming right-wing documentary, "How Obama Got Elected." The clip is available at youtube.com.

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Ban Root Canals

There is a heinous, terrible medical procedure being done on innocents. The procedure is brutal, involving outright murder of the innocent. This procedure? Root canals.

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My Mortifying, Yet Hysterically Funny Work Moment

It truly is a good thing that I can laugh at myself, given the predicaments I find myself in from time to time. Just a few moments ago, I popped my head into my boss's office to update her on a project. She had her head down, focusing on something else.

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Hooray, Prop. 8 is Passing!

Yes, you read my headline correctly. No, I haven't taken leave of my senses or joined the fundies overnight. But after thinking about Proposition 8, which amends the California Constitution to deny gay couples the right to marry, I am not sad to see it pass. Why?

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