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Online nowWildmustard: Georgia is a 47 year old woman in a relationship from Louisiana, USA.; Likes 974 pages, 67 videos, 147 photos • 103 fans • Received 12 reviews; Member since Mar 30, 2007

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Picture/Photo: Slot canyon, Deer Creek Narrows. Grand Canyon National Park: 8:41pm 5 reviews beauty, photography, grand-canyon, water •http://www.terragalleria.com/parks/np...; Looking at this made me feel better.

Dunlap Observatory closing sparks anger, frustration - Posted Toronto: 8:11pm 3 reviews astronomy, greed, stupidity, telescope, avarice •http://network.nationalpost.com/np/bl...; I am stunned by this. I guess I am still so stupid and naive that I am taken by surprise when morons and money win. As for the way they treated Dr Bolton and the staff who worked there...all I can hope is that it comes back to bite them a hundredfold. A thousandfold. Idiots, bastards, unfeeling pigs.

David Lebovitz: Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream: Jul 4, 5:05pm 4 reviews cooking, ice-cream, salt, caramel, fleur-de-sel •http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives...; From the page: "So here I'm presenting my very own recipe for Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream which I guarantee is better than anything you can get anywhere, including...gasp...the glace Caramel at the venerable Berthillon: It's so good, I can unconditionally make that claim. So there. And after the feedback I got from local friends who took a taste, they wholeheartedly agreed. Still not convinced? Then be prepared to miss out."

Well, now I've got to go eat the ice cream in the freezer. It's vanilla (my fave, hands down, and the best way to judge how good an ice cream manufacturer is, IMHO), not this amazingly mouth-watering sounding creation, but I think it will go down just fine...

Language Log: Ask Language Log: The moist panties phenomenon: Jul 4, 2:30pm 14 reviews linguistics, quirks, word-aversion •http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/langua...; Now I'm trying to remember which words I dislike ... I know there are some, but I'm still so caught up in trying to decide whether 'moist panties' bothers me or not.

Bad Science & All time classic creationist pwnage: Jul 3, 8:17am 7 reviews evolution, science, research, right-wing-wackos, peer-review •http://www.badscience.net/2008/06/all...; Richard Lenski is my new hero. I love this man. What a pity his erudite and detailed explanation is wasted on a fool.

The Wedding Vows @ AMERICAN DIGEST: Jul 2, 2:41pm 2 reviews counterculture, marriage, commitment, vows •http://americandigest.org/mt-archives...; From the page: "Perhaps if we'd taken, on that summer day, not the tissue of words from our brave new world, but the tempered steel of the old vows and stood by them we'd all have learned that it isn't the Wedding party and the Wedding night that needs to endure in our hearts, but the things that stand at the center of the old vows. We all know them. They are the words that allow no misunderstanding when said from heart's truth: love, honor, comfort, fidelity. We all know too the promises that come later: to have, to hold, for better, for worse, richer or poorer, fairer or fouler, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, unto death and beyond, under God's holy ordinance."

Second time around, yes, and under trees and among stones, but I do believe that we will still make the old and hard promises to one another. There is no-one else I would rather make those kinds of promises to than him.

Missing hedge fund manager turns himself in - CNN.com: Jul 2, 11:25am 1 review crime, white-collar-crime, losers, bayou-hedge-fund •http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/02/i...; I knew that this SOB had not committed suicide.

Study shows being fat in todays world invites social discrimination (6/27/2008): Jul 2, 11:22am 1 review science, common-sense, obesity, medical-school, physician-training •http://www.brainmysteries.com/Researc...; From the page: ""Our preliminary results indicate that health care providers should do a more thorough assessment of the needs of individual obese patients based on a sympathetic and nonjudgmental appreciation of their problems," Komesaroff said. "Responses may include the setting of reasonable targets with respect to disease risk factors and a closer attention to social and psychological issues.""

For this to happen, medical schools would actually have to teach their students about how to engage with patients, and also about nutrition. Neither of these things are being done at the moment.

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Can a disabled model make it in fashion?: Jul 2, 11:17am 2 reviews beauty, disabilities, stereotypes, body-image, modelling •http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/ma...; From the page: ""In new buildings and transport systems it's now unthinkable not to design with disability in mind," he says. But fashion sees itself differently."

Indeed it does. Shallow, manipulative, and all about the money. Not that THAT is news.

On the one hand, I think this is a good idea, because it forces people to look at something that is usually ignored. On the other hand, it's still telling people that women can only look a certain way; these women's disabilities will be incorporated into that look.

As I've mentioned before, I am trying hard to help my son learn that beauty comprises so much more than mere surface symmetry and ability to go without food. I'd like to see more men and women of various sizes, shapes, ages, abilities, and colors presented to the world as 'beautiful.' However, as an American, I an acutely aware that money has the first, last and all words in between, so I'd not holding my breath.

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | How Sunday school shaped Britain: Jul 2, 11:04am 4 reviews religion, faith, belief, guidance, sunday-school •http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/ma...; This makes me feel much better about my attempts to teach 3-5 graders about getting to know their Bibles this summer. I'm probably not typical for my age or certainly the region in which I live, by accident (The South), because I've already told my students that, while I and others are here to guide them and try to answer their questions, that their personal relationships with God, and how they work that out, is up to them. I refuse to be part of the massive, heavy indoctrination of the young that I see going on in almost every single church in this city. I would like to be part of something that helps the children in my church (Presbyterian) understand and develop their own understanding of and relationship with God. It is intensely personal and should be treated with respect.

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