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

Friday, November 11, 2016

Fairness and Donald Trump

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Fairness and Donald Trump On November 10, 2016, the "real" Donald J. Trump tweeted: Just had a very open and successful pre...
Sunday, November 06, 2016

From Registered Republican to a Registered Democrat

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Many women have been writing about how their experiences with misogyny have led them to support Hillary Clinton. I whole-heartedly agre...
Tuesday, November 01, 2016

How to Estimate Affordable Care Act Insurance Premiums (AKA Obamacare) Using https://www.healthcare.gov/see-plans/

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How to Estimate Affordable Care Act Insurance Premiums (AKA Obamacare) Using https://www.healthcare.gov/see-plans/ Remember the initial c...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Trump Will Fail Debate - He Can't Get Past These Already Debunked Lies

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This was the single most brilliant move by the Clinton campaign - to release a catalog of many (but probably not all) of Trump's lies j...
Monday, August 08, 2016

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Leavetakings - July 2016 July 2016 was a month of leavetakings, the happy and the sad. We had long encouraged our daughter to move out,...
Thursday, June 02, 2016

An Essay By My Mother, 1962: A Young Mother's Story

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[[ My mother, Ruth Shonyo Trask, is a free-lance writer who spent over 20 years working for the WPI Journal as a writer and an editor. She...
Friday, May 13, 2016

Why I Love the Always Hungry Diet: Obese, Post-Menopausal Woman on the Journey to Being "High Normal"

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I've been a fat person for nearly 50 years, an obese person for nearly 33 of those years, and a morbidly obese person for about 3 of t...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

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Quick Lower Calorie Smore Desserts are often a sore point if you're trying to cut back on junk food. But sometimes you want more th...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

30 Years After the Challenger Disaster

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Just about half a lifetime ago, I was working for Stratus Computer in Hudson Massachusetts. During group meetings, we sometimes saw the fam...
Saturday, January 09, 2016

My Best Movies of 2015

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I had a feeling when I first saw Spotlight that it would be my favorite movie of the year, and it is. Exceptionally intelligently written,...
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Spoilers * Star Wars, The Force Awakens Comments and Spoilers

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So if you really don't want to read spoilers, STOP NOW               I went to this movie not knowing anything new (thou...
Friday, October 09, 2015

"This Is John Lennon's 75th Birthday" and Other Language Mangles Around Death (a plea from Dead People Server)

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I have always hated when people write things like: Today is John Lennon's 75th birthday No, no, a thousand times NO! When p...
Monday, September 21, 2015

2015 Emmys - Even More Diverse Than You Think...

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I'm really glad that Viola Davis, Regina King & Uzo Aduba won Emmys last night. Viola Davis is one of the finest actors working to...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Three Sane #SCOTUS Rulings in Two Days - Marriage Equity, Affirming ACA & Fair Housing

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I'm very happy for these victories for modernity. However, we need to be ever-vigilant. Civil rights for all races, genders and religi...
Monday, May 04, 2015

Obese Woman Walks 13.1 Miles and Survives!

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Is that click-baity enough for you? The actual title of this should be "Walking the Pittsburgh Half-Marathon Route," but these ...
Monday, April 06, 2015

The Problem with Slate-Voting for Popular Awards Like the Hugos

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Like the vast majority of people who've been voting for the Hugos for years, I have never, ever voted for a slate of people/works. It...
Thursday, February 05, 2015

Reviving the "25 Things About Me" Meme

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It's probably the ultimate in navel-gazing, but what the hell. I responded to the meme in early 2009, I've added some additional c...
Monday, November 03, 2014

Why To Vote in the Mid-Terms

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It's simple - anyone who tells you "it's not worth voting since all politicians are the same" is lying ! Are the Demo...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Don't Stay In a Relationship When Someone Beats You

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I have always known about abused women because, as early as in high school, I knew girls who were beaten up by their boyfriends. As much as...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

What City Has the Most Bridges and Why Is This Fact Unfindable on the Web?

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I am a trivia fanatic. I grew up glued to College Bowl, Jeopardy and almost memorizing the '70s version of the Guinness Books of Worl...
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