Google Latitude

Wanna keep tabs on your kid? Check out the new features of Google Latitude. Hide and Go Seek at it’s best. I have to wonder why people need to know so damn much about each other – I still don’t get the constant cell phone/texting thing. Do I really need to know you [...]

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Too late – you lose.

Seeing lots of ads tonight on the eve of the election by www.goptrust.com trying to scare people by linking Obama to Rev. Wright. Seeing these ads repeat over and over again on CNN and MSNBC and probably overwhelmingly on FOX.  Disgusting – they can’t win on their own good ideas for the country so they [...]

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Moyers and Galbraith

Have recently started subscribing to Bill Moyers Podcast via iTunes. Perfect hour for my usual 3 1/2 mile walk.  Heard a very interesting conversation with James Galbraith (son of John Kenneth Galbraith) on our current economic crisis.
Galbraith argues that modern America has fallen prey to a wealthy, government-controlling “predatory class”:
Today, the signature of modern American [...]

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Secret Life of Bees – the Movie

Oct 17th – mark it on your calendars. The movie opens in theaters with a great cast.
Dakota Fanning (Lily)
Queen Latifah (August)
Jennifer Hudson (Rosaleen)
Alicia Keys (June)
Sophie Okonedo (May)
Paul Bettany (T. Ray)
Tristan Wilds (Zach)
I think Dakota Fanning is an excellent choice for the lead. A great little actress and most likely will do Lily proud. [...]

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If you get the chance, check out Annik Ruben’s Slow German Podcast.  I’m trying to brush up on my German that I haven’t used much in the past 30 years and this is a marvelous tool.  It ranks way up there amongst my favorite podcasts.  Her voice is great, the pace is right, the topics [...]

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