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“The difference between standard medical care and hospice is not the difference...”
– Hospice medical care for dying patients : The New Yorker. I used to have misconceptions about hospice care before my mother and I talked about it months ago (when a friend’s father was put under hospice care). I hope this article helps people understand what it’s all about.
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“Of course, you can’t treat race as a box to be checked off. Not only is...”
– Jamelle Bouie, Where Race Isn’t Off-Limits | The American Prospect
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WatchJust watched this during my lunch break. Laura Linney = excellent. [Showtime Official Site :: Video :: The Big C: S1 ep1]
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“Ted will be absolutely un-douchey this year.”
– Craig Thomas, exec. producer, How I Met Your Mother Don’t make promises you can’t keep! If Ted is anywhere even close to the crappy character he’s been in the past couple seasons, my time with this usually fun show is over.
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On "Tales of The City"
dextrose replied to your photo: Tales of the City, 1993.
It’s pretty rare that someone mentions a TV show that I’ve never heard of. :)
PBS aired the series in the mid-nineties. The show was really a mini-series based on Armistead Maupin’s books about 1970’s-era San Francisco — with Laura Linney as lead character Mary Ann Singleton. It was fairly controversial at the time that...
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Eleanor Lerman, "Starfish" →
This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman down beside you at the counter who says, Last night the channel was full of starfish. And you wonder, is this a message, finally, or just another day? Life lets you take the dog for a walk down to the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
The New Pornographers (34)
Neko Case (30)
The Perishers (9)
Miriam Makeba (6)
My Morning Jacket (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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El Paso Sheriff on Violence, Immigration and... →
You know, I certainly wouldn’t turn it down if the President wants to send National Guard troops out here to assist us in gathering information and supporting our ability to keep our community safe. I just wonder, though, if the resources aren’t misdirected. It seems to me that when you look at El Paso and how safe we are, … the things that we have to deal with day-to-day — keeping in mind that El...
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“There are more uninsured residents of Texas — 6.1 million and counting — than...”
– Texas Battles Health Law Even as It Follows It - NYTimes.com. You would think Texas politicians would want Texans to be healthy, but nope.
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“When any man likes me I never am surprised for I think how should he help it?...”
– Hester Lynch Piozzi, according to my page-a-day calendar. This seems a healthy outlook to have.
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“(I)t’s not worth wasting time arguing over whether or not you’ll...”
– Poynter Online - Carvin: Facebook Lets NPR Empower Those Who Love Us, Listen to Those Who Don’t
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Botanical Gardens Are Turning Away From Flowers -... →
Because of environmental concerns, Descanso Gardens, near Los Angeles, is doing the once-unthinkable: it plans to uproot its historic — but nonnative — collection of camellias, some as tall as 30 feet, which were planted decades ago under the shade of natural woodlands. “It’s a fantasy forest,” says Brian Sullivan, the director of horticulture and garden operations. But the fantasy cannot be...
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“And yet for all their outrageousness and puerile dissipation, Ms. Headland’s...”
– Theater Review - ‘Bachelorette’ - Wedding Trash Talk in Leslye Headland’s Comedy - NYTimes.com. I enjoy reading the theater reviews in the NYTimes even though I’ve never been to NYC (and even if I could afford the trip, I doubt I could afford tickets to any of the shows). But...
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Texas AG Files Legal Challenges Against EPA | The... →
GEEZ.
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Watchvia theinternetiscool:
Oh Vista…
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Channel 39 changing its newscast format |... →
“It will be news for people who don’t watch news, which sounds a lot like opening a bar for people who don’t drink.”
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“To Borges, science will never be able to answer all questions about the world...”
– Borges, The Universe And The Infinite Library : NPR.
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Review: Salt | Slackerwood →
Written by me. I had to include my disappointment over the lack of a real role for Andre Braugher; despite this, I really enjoyed the film. And I’m not usually a fan of Angelina Jolie movies!
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"We Know We Don’t Have the Votes" | Mother Jones →
Climate legislation dead for now, dangit.
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“What Palin and her compatriots who don’t live in diverse megacities are asking...”
– @ Sarah Palin, pls understand, this is America | Need to Know | PBS
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