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Stupid Sluts Who Get Pregnant [1]

Bookstore Conversations: John Part I On Wednesday afternoon, at the Sacramento-area bookstore where I work, I got into an intense exchange about abortion with a regular customer I'll call John, just as...

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Stupid Sluts: Not My Daughter

And now, Bookstore Conversations Part II (go here for Part I), the true story of an anti-choice, virulently misogynistic customer whom I met at the bookstore where I work, and to whom I failed to...

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Moral Imbeciles Are We

I have been burdened with a heart-sinking task: for days I've been trying to write a promised letter to a fundamentalist Christian friend of mine. I've known her five months, and I've decided it's time...

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Part One: On a Pissy Day

INSIDE BUSHCO INNER-SANCTA and among sundry political hangers on, I've come to the conclusion (on a pissy day like today) that for these people the meaning of loyalty can be summed up in single trait:...

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Irked (with love)

DEMOCRATS AREN'T PERFECT. We've had our share of dissemblers, flakes, forked-tongues and smarm meisters. The opposition, however--the Limbaughs and the Brit Hulmes, the Bidens and the Mehlmans--these...

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Les Quadrupèdes: SOS

From the Texas SPCA:"We cannot stress enough the enormous strain these operations will put on the SPCA's resources." You can just imagine. Click on the link if you can't."To support the ASPCA's...

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The train they call The City of New Orleans

Good moring America, how are you? Doncha know me, I'm your native son Who remembers that old refrain? I heard the song yesterday on the in-store sound system at the neighborhood grocery behemoth where...

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Radical - Updated

UPDATE: 5/8/08 - I want very much to delete this diary; I no longer agree with myself in any way, shape, or form. The situation is far, far more complicated than I accounted for here (for starters, I...

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Can you help me and my 3 furbottoms again?

Here's what's going on with me.I own my home. It's paid for, so housing is not a problem.I'm on food stamps, so I eat well enough.I have a paid-for car, an old purple Saturn, but the gas in it is low....

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Airedale Sam Sez: I Am Worried About Mah Hoomin

I am so worried Greetings, kospeeps! 'Tis I, aitchdee. So, listen. I have a dear friend--his name is Airedale Sam--and he's just worried sick about his best friend Karen, a.k.a. esteemed kos-personage...

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Help me keep my job - it won't take much

UPDATE: GOAL MET! One kind and generous kossack has offered to shoulder the burden. Thank you SO MUCH to you angels who recced this diary. I was about to panic, but it's going to be okay now.Six months...

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Sitting in my house alone, freaking out

THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH, MY GOAL IS MET! NO MORE DONATIONS! I will be able to go back to work on Wednesday, thanks to all of you. Thanks as well for all the wonderful, kind commenst, for lifting my...

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Follow up to Freaking out: Thank you wholeheartedly; MediCal advice now sought

My typing is terrible, forgive me: I'm a bad-ass, lightning-fast typist no more.First, big thanks to those of you who recommended and/or posted comments to my last diary wherein I talk about my RA...

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It's her paw

Hi. We have REACHED OUR GOAL and are dashing off to the vet hospital RIGHT NOW. Thank you so very, very much to all who donated and/or recommended this diary - you are wonderful, you have saved...

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UPDATE: Frances Muffin is OKAY!

A nail in Frances' front right paw had broken all the way down to the quick. It probably had a fissure in it, which was softened up yesterday when I bathed her (a process that takes far longer than it...

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My disability benefits have been cut-off for the whole of October

Attention! Everyone! I have met my goal!Whew! It was touch-and-go for a there minute, wasn't it? But now I am happy to report that I have met (and somewhat exceeded) my cash goal. This should be enough...

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Crossing Over

That's a picture of my funniest little valentine, Camoo. Absurdly, I named her after Albert Camus, the philosopher and novelist about whom I knew almost nothing other than that Barnes and Noble was...

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You are amazingly helpful people, and I thank you with all my heart

To my kind and caring friends here on the GOS: I'm still recuperating from a painful bout of pleurisy (an inflammation of the lining of the lung, a common complication of the more severe forms of...

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