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Remember Before You Vote Laurie D. T. Mann Many politicians make it clear they don't care who dies, so long as the wealthy and corpor...

I saw and liked most of the movies nominated for Oscars for last year (of the major flicks, haven't seen True Grit, 127 Hours or Black S...

I'm a longtime book fan and I married a serious book collector back in 1977. Even when we had little money, we usually found a way to ...

People who know me, either in real life or maybe just online, know I have a bad temper. In response to a particularly egregious court verd...

The government in Allegheny county often has good ideas - then mars the good ideas with lousy implmementation. Take Christmas tree recycli...

Back in about 1994 (or maybe it was 1995), my husband Jim started to note where to get decent beer in Pittsburgh in a site called Jim's ...

My system was hacked by the Smart Defragmenter virus sometime during the early evening of 10/29/10. I'm not sure how that happened, but...

I've been very quiet in the blog this year. I was hopelessly exhausted for over the first half of the year, but still managed to keep u...

This is a modification of a recipe from The Joy of Cooking - Applesauce Gingerbread. I like more ginger in my gingerbread. Also, since it d...

Two years ago, I took a documentary course at the University of Pittsburgh. Back in 2005, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the r...

Texas has always had a strong, centralized system for buying textbooks. Unfortunately, the Texans are continuing to dumb down and rewrite h...

This blog is now located at http://nolongerslowblog.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click her...

I was raised to be a Republican. Heck, I even voted, when I was 19, for Gerry Ford. I worked for Republican candidates in the '70s and...

Congratulations to Obama and the Democrats for dragging our country, kicking and screaming in some cases, into the late 20th century healtca...

I'm busy today, so I'll get right to the point: Consenting, taxpaying adults have the right to live with whomever they want withou...

Stop on by; I'll be updating this during the Oscars. 2010 Oscars (comments on movies made in 2009).

I'm not sure when, exactly, was the first time I met Phil Klass (aka William Tenn). I think we met at one or two cons in the '70s or...

A few weeks ago, Jim discovered we could attend five Pittsburgh Symphony concerts for the price of four. Since we didn't get to any PSO...

There was a piece in The New York Times that tried to make the point that 1957 was an exceptionally lucky year in which to be born, based o...

The FTC has decided people should be up front when they are being paid to chat things up on the Web . Frankly, I think that's a good id...