Best. Engagement. Photos. Ever.

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The couple told their photographer (link below) that they wanted to put their personalities into the photos, and do something a little quirky. Mission accomplished. The photo series is quite large, so it is below the fold.

Mother Listens On Phone While Her Daughter Gets Eaten By Bears

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This is, uh, unusual: A Russian mother listened helplessly on a cellphone to her teenage daughter crying for help earlier this week as she was eaten alive by bears. The horrified mother of Olga Moskalyova, a 19-year-old psychologist in training, heard her daughter's desperate pleas for help after receiving a call from her daughter on a mobile phone. Tatiana Tsyganenkov listened … Read More

Useless

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What's more useless than a braille version of Playboy magazine? Putting the braille version of Playboy on the Internet.

Comments From God’s Blog

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UPDATE: Pretty pleased with what I’ve come up with in just six days. Going to take tomorrow off. Feel free to check out what I’ve done so far. Suggestions and criticism (constructive, please!) more than welcome. God out.            COMMENTS (24) Not sure who this is for. Seems like a fix for a problem that didn’t exist. Liked it better … Read More

Good Jobs News, At Least

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Better-than-expected job growth last month… and in the private sector, too (154,000 private-sector jobs in July, with employment growth in healthcare, retail and manufacturing, even as the government sector cut 37,000 jobs).  Unemployment droped from 9.2 to 9.1%. Not out of the woods by a long shot, but at least it was positive news.

I Call Shenanigans

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In Vermont: BARRE — Despite a smaller-than-expected turnout, a Vermont group unofficially qualified for the Guinness Book of World Records on Sunday by playing the longest baseball game. Organizer Bobby DeAngelis of Rutland said the teams played for 200 innings, totaling 48 hours, 32 minutes and 45 seconds at the Barre Recreation Field. The mark of 48:09:25 was set by … Read More

Back In My Hometown Of Concord NH…

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State Rep. Lynne Blankenbeker (R-Concord) is a nurse in the Navy Reserves and is currently at Fort Dix, N.J., training with the U.S. Army. On Thursday, she wrote an email to her colleagues in the New Hampshire House and updated them on her training, explaining that the Army was "short staffed," which is why she was at Fort Dix. In … Read More

Makeovers

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Well, this is just disturbing…. Me: The JULIA ROBERTS look: The CHARLIZE THERON look: The SANDRA BULLOCK look: The DEMI MOORE look: The BEYONCE look: The KATY PERRY look: Try it on yourself at Taaz Virtual Makeover.

Why You’re Wrong

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You're wrong because when you first got that idea in your head, it was full of misinformation.  Misinformation which, sadly, you became married to: Once an idea enters your mind it's hard to get rid of it. Even after you've been proven wrong and know that you are, your brain is wired to stick with the original information. It even … Read More

FIFA Women’s Final

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Seriously, just how disappointed can any American be?  Our girls played well and it was a close game. Japan lost 23,000 of its countryman.  The women's soccer team victory in no way compensates for that, but damn if it isn't nice to see Japan getting some good news.