what's in a name

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• Religious Left Emerges, Religious Right Erodes

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  From my hometown newspaper this morning at the heart of Gator Nation and in the South — even though it’s something I can be proud of this time rather than apologize for, like what passes for good communal citizenship just down the road from UF in a giant corporate enclave of relatively wealthy and self-serving ...
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• Speak Up When Pro-Child Politics Are Attacked as Anti-Parent

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Here we go again. Families, child-rearing and home education publiclystereotyped as conservative extremism and anti-human rights, sigh. Ifyou parent and/or educate children and don’t fit this stereotype, makeyour voice heard too. Don’t let this define your principles.Parental rights rally on Washington planned: ...
  4 days ago

• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  
  Tammy's Book Nook — Authority: 111
  Title : Tender is the Night Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald First Published : 1933 No. of Pages : 349 Synopsis (from B&N) : "Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender Is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, ...
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• Whats in a Name? 2 Challenge completed

  
  Tammy's Book Nook — Authority: 111
  The challenge was to read one book from each of six categories. I stuck to my original list of choices for all but one book. Heres what I read, with links to my reviews: Profession: The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester -- ...
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• What’s in a Name Challenge: Complete!

  
  Fleur Fisher reads — Authority: 126
  This was a lovely challenge. Lots of time was spent happily browsing for titles to fit the categories. And now I’ve read my 6 books for the 6 categories. Here they are: 1. A book with a “profession” in its title A Bookseller ’s War by Anne and Heywood Hill 2. A book with a “time of day” in its ...
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• Beef Jerky Action Cam??

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  I am not making this up. Here I am, watching the big college football game of the week on tv — LSU v Alabama — suddenly wondering how I can be so riveted by any meme that involves a “beef jerky action cam!”Posted in colleges and universities, Cynical Stuff, Framing, Health, Humor, Identity, Language, ...
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• What’s in a Name? White, Black, and Shades of Gray

  
  Gardening Gone Wild — Authority: 120
  Way back in February, I wrote What’s in a Name? Part the First , with every intention of following it up regularly to explore the meanings behind many botanical names. It’s taken me much longer than I’d expected to get going, but now that the growing season is slowing down, I’m excited to finally have some ...
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• Brother Jacob by George Eliot

  
  Fleur Fisher reads — Authority: 126
  Virago Modern Classic #312 Brother Jacob is George Eliot’s shortest and most obscure work. I’m pleased that Virago reissued it back in the day – if they hadn’t it probably would have passed me by. My edition runs to just 74 pages, but it contains a fable, a morality tale in four acts: Act 1 On a visit ...
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• Rice Krispies No Health Food, Much Less Medicine Magic

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  And that goes for Cocoa Krispies too, no matter what outrageous corporate “colors” the First Amendment might hold its nose and permit to be inflicted upon our evermore-poorly educated populace.Rice Krispies Are No Substitute For Swine Flu Vaccine:Cereal giant Kellogg said it’s dropping the eyebrow-raising claim ...
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• Capitol Hill Mad Hatters Show Up for More Tea Partying

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Tea Partiers Hit Capitol:They arrived as early as 8:30 a.m., by bus, car and plane — from Bluffton, S.C., Des Moines and Dorris, Calif. — to rally with conservative lawmakers and possibly roam the halls of Congress.“Can you hear us now!” they chanted from the foot of the Capitol, as they awaited the arrival of ...
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• Campaign in Poetry, Govern in Prose

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Matt Frei for BBC News on this first anniversary of the historic election:The old saying that you campaign in poetry and govern in prose was only partially true for Obama.By late summer of 2008, he had already switched to prose. The cautious and calculating pragmatist who now runs this country was beginning to unpeel ...
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• Maine Repeals Gays as Human; Public School Parent Protests Gays as Animals

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Dan Delong of Carlinville, Ill., at teacher at Southwestern High School in the nearby town of Piasa, will face a school board hearing November 2, after being suspended from teaching. A parent of one unidentified student thought the optional reading assignment was inappropriate for her child . . .When this and this ...
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• Mike Lux on America’s “Historical, Hysterical Conservatives”

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  They have used the same arguments — for tradition and states rights, against “big government socialism” — in every era. In those past eras, history was not on their side. It is not in our time, either.. . .These conservative arguments have always been tinged with more than a little hysteria, just like today. ...
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• We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

  
  Fleur Fisher reads — Authority: 126
  “My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing ...
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• What’s in a Name?

  
  Are we nearly there yet mummy? — Authority: 462
  Last night as I was drifting off to sleep I started to think about the name of my blog. As you do. Naming my blog was almost as difficult as naming my children and I remember the selection process taking a while.  I thought about the ones that got away and found the original shortlist in the back of my notebook. ...
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• Book Review

  
  Page After Page — Authority: 132
  Book: Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart ONan Pages: 160 Finished: October 2009 Challenges: ** Fall Into Reading ** Support Your Local Library ** Whats in a Name ** Read and Review ** First Sentence: "Mall traffic on a gray winters day, stalled." Summary: From Publishers ...
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• Young Son the Political and Cultural Cynic

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  So you know he’s been reading Les Miserables, all 1,400 pages.I guess it makes sense he would relate the author’s social themes to his own present reality as synced up with his own favorite social commentary artists by night, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and as opposed to the years of rantings and vitriol ...
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• How Do You Define What’s Up (at pussy)Cat’s?

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  The latest round of thinking parents playing “What’s in a Name?” as a floating blog-game of religion and politics costumed as each other for Halloween, apparently started with Lynn and JJ and many commenters both places, riffing on Frank Schaeffer’s books and his new MSNBC repudiation of the evangelical ...
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• Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη)

  
  Organically cooked — Authority: 417
  It had always been a dream of mine to visit Thessaloniki, and after 19 years (to the day) of permanent residence in Greece (Im well on my way to marking half my life here), I finally got to the north of the country.Thessaloniki, Greece, and her neighboursSelanik, Solun, Salonicco, Salonicha, Salonique, Salonica, ...
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• War, War, War Revisited

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  See Because Liz Cheney is a War Criminal too in the rogues’ gallery detailed, then proceed:Liz Cheney, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter, is founding a new group called “Keep America Safe” that will coordinate a campaign of fear intended to paint the President as an appeaser disinterested in ...
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