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Not-so-Occasional Comments on Life, Death and Many Things in Between by Laurie Mann

Wednesday, July 24, 2002

Two Girls Who Didn't Die

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With so much bad news about unlucky girls, I thought I'd share two stories about lucky girls. The first one is 7-year-old Erica Pratt. ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2002

A Letter to the Editor on the Philadelphia Convention Center

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The Post-Gazette published a lengthy letter I wrote in response to an article on the Philadelphia Convention Center. Here's the letter:...
Saturday, July 13, 2002

Fact Checking (This Time - NPR and Scott Simon's Weekend Edition)

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I am a big believer in fact-checking, particularly in public forums, like Web sites, radio shows, TV shows, newspapers...Heck, even in blogs...
Thursday, July 11, 2002

Staggering Back to Blogdom

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Gee, has it been six weeks already? Time sure flies... ;-> Anyway , between having a rough time with sinuses, moving to a mostly full-ti...
Monday, May 27, 2002

On Living in a "Safe" Suburb

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We live on a busy street in a nice suburb of Pittsburgh. We moved here in 1993 because we were looking for an area with an excellent school...
Friday, May 17, 2002

Two Truths and a Lie

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This was Kate Nepveu's fault - she alerted rec.arts.sf.fandom to the Weblog harrump, still crazy , where people were instructed to list ...
Monday, May 13, 2002

Why American Slavery Reparations Are Such a Terrible Idea

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I am politically liberal. I used to feel more middle-of the-road, but not so much lately. And that, in theory, should mean that I am in fa...
Friday, May 10, 2002

Too Many Recent Deaths...

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We all gotta go. I know that. I edit Dead People Server , partially to track "people's status," but also as a reminder - we ...
Monday, May 06, 2002

Today, I'm Ashamed to Be an American...

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I find the unilateral actions of our government, particularly under the Bush administration, to be an embarassment. But today's decisio...
Monday, April 29, 2002

Yesterday Was a Generally Depressing, Weird Day

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I was very saddened to hear about George Alec Effinger's death. While I hadn't been in touch in a while, we'd hung out some at ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2002

We Spent an Enjoyable Three Days Up in Boston

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Jim and I help to run science fiction conventions. Last year, we managed the Program division for the Millennium Philcon. So now that we...
Monday, April 15, 2002

My First "Official" Weblog

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I went to a political event tonight, "in honor" of tax day. It was supposed to be something of an environmentalist's nightmar...

Why Blog?

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I'm still not sure "why blog" when I've been writing Web pages since 1994. But, I thought I'd give it a shot. So, here...
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