Completely Booked

Posted by Cynical Sarah on August 24, 2007

Over the last couple months I’ve started reading four different books. It started with a book I was reading to review for work. I got about a third of the way into it before I got busy with other things (also known as probably got bored with it) and set it aside.

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Tags: books

Cursed Tongue: Humidity Bites

Posted by CursedTongue on August 18, 2007

Searing heat, spiky plants and dust storms are a few of the drawbacks to living in Arizona’s desert. But for me the advantages outweigh any trivial warts like flash floods and brush fires. I was sharply reminded of these advantages when I visited the Midwest this June. It was humid. So humid that everything smelled wet.

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Cursed Tongue: Formula, With a Side Order of Neural Damage

Posted by CursedTongue on August 14, 2007

A report released earlier this week by the National Toxicology Program Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (NTP), brings news of the potential dangers of bisphenol A (BPA), a common chemical in hard polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resin. A chemical that the federal government had already established an exposure limit for.

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Cursed Tongue: Barbie Frets Retail Sag, China Holds the Bag

Posted by CursedTongue on August 12, 2007

A new spate of toy recalls includes Polly Pocket and other toys with tiny, shiny, easy-to-swallow magnets. Polly, manufactured by Mattel, shares the magnet recall stage with Barbie, Batman and the nauseatingly cute Doggie Daycare.

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Tags: humor, toys

Disconnected

Posted by Cynical Sarah on August 10, 2007

I’ve now been living in Vancouver for more than two years, I recently come to the realization that I haven’t really formed many connections here except through my husband and work.

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Cursed Tongue: A War By Any Other `Nam

Posted by CursedTongue on August 6, 2007

In an impudent and utterly idiotic move Wednesday, President Bush compared the Vietnam War to the current war in Iraq. He said, “Then as now, people argued that the real problem was America’s presence and if we would just withdraw, the killing would end.”
He argues that it was the withdrawal of American forces that led [...]

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Tags: humor, politics

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