February 2011
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Still Curious
So the Google says that sinkholes are typically filled with either a layer of rocks (this process I’m used to as it’s how we fill dirt potholes on gravel roads) or plugged with cement.
The cement plug causes a problem because in instances like Guatemala’s sinkhole, it doesn’t address the problem of drainage, and just makes the water divert elsewhere and create a sinkhole...
January 2011
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The Church of Life After Shopping
I’ve been plowing through Hulu.com’s selection of documentaries while I wait to renew my Netflix account in February and the last one on my list is titled simply, “Freedom Fries: and other stupidity we’ll have to explain to our grandchildren.”
The point so far is what most of us fed up with Bush were feeling at the time. But there is the added bonus of this figure,...
A Different Kind of Bondage
There is a series of books simply titled “[Insert Country] Girls About Town.” American, Scottish, Irish…what have you. They’re full of short stories from female authors of the highlighted country, and I have the three I mentioned above.
One of them had a story that included an idea I’ve felt I related to a bit more than I’d like to admit. I was looking for...
Curious
Does anyone have a follow-up to the Guatemalan sink hole story from last year? Did they fill it up? How does that work?
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in...”
Blowhards
I love that bloviate turns out to mean pretty much what you’d imagine it to.
“There’s no such thing as the perfect soulmate. If you meet someone and you...”
– Madonna, apparently.