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If life is my battlefield then I'm prepared for battle.If I were a man, I would stalk Susie Suh. If I were gay, I would stalk Susie Suh. For now, I'll just pine and listen and dream. Susie is wonderful.Susie Suh sings, pours, oozes. Tender. Sad. Personal. Wistful. Hopeful. Vulnerable. Honest.Introspective songs bring submerged feelings of the past closer to the surface. Susie Suh knows and sings

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There must be a reason why someone so beautiful would learn to walk so strange.With apologies to Anheuser-Busch's Budweiser beer, today's fashion shows are cluttered with beautiful Clydesdales. Seemingly gorgeous models strut their six foot, 100-pound frames down a runway and look like sultry horses.Why do models walk that way? What way? You know, like, that way. The way models walk. Why?My

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What's hot on iTunes Music Store is not what's hot on my iPod.I'm an early adopter and bought the original five gigabyte iPod way back when. I purchased and downloaded music from the iTunes Music Store when it opened. Since then, I've lost my mojo. Am I no longer iPod cool?Yes, I check the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) from time to time. Since the store opened I've purchased nearly $1,500 in music,

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Gambling is a national pastime and a national problem. Is there a cure?Cure gambling? Take a pill. Reduce your weight? Take a pill? Get more energy? Take a pill. I say, 'Take a placebo.'I was watching the TV news tonight when I saw a report on a potential cure for gambling. A pill.The results of a study show that daily doses of an experimental drug called nalmefene, sometimes used to treat

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Live and let live does not have a good life expectancy in the Mideast.Freedom of speech is one thing. Freedom to terrorize is something else. If you can call me ugly am I free to threaten to kill you? Or fire you? A cartoon in a Danish newspaper draws the conflict strings closer together.Newspapers throughout Europe have republished controversial images of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. The cartoon

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Count me as one of the tens of millions who watch American Idol. I just shake my head.American Idol started a new season in January and quickly became the top rated TV show. Again. As it was last year, this year's early season displays few of the potential Idols and most of the Idol wannabes. 15 minutes of fame is reduced to 60 seconds, but it's on national TV.For those of us watching, it should

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In Shakespeare's Henry VI one of the characters, “Dick The Butcher" said, “First thing we do, is kill all the lawyers."An iPod owner has filed a federal lawsuit against Apple, claiming the device cause hearing loss in people who use it. What's next? Let's sue Oprah because she promoted a fiction book as non-fiction?The San Jose Mercury News quotes from the suit that portable music players are "

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Rubbish or more threats from the phone company? What's the difference?What's the difference between the Sopranos and the phone company? Nothing that I can tell. Oh, wait. We get phone service and internet access from the phone company. They can hurt you. The Sopranos cannot.When I first read these comments I was stunned that there wasn't much of an outrage because it appears to be outright

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If you can't tell whether the King of Pop is a King or Queen, you're in good company.Slate has an interesting article on Michael Jackson, asking, "How 'Black' is Michael Jackson?" Good question. What do you mean by "black?" Race? As in negro? There's an easy answer to that.Michael's biological parents are "black". So is Michael. But how "black" is Michael Jackson? No pop music star has ever

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About to shuffle off into oblivion is the iPod shuffe.News from Business 2.0 says Apple may ditch the diminutive iPod shuffle in favor of a one gigabyte iPod nano. Is that such a good idea? Where's the Micro, Pequeno, and Invisa when we need them?Cutting the shuffle is probably a good idea from a cost savings standpoint. It simplifies the line. After all, Apple is in business to make money. An

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Google's stock soared from opening day, defying predictions, but not gravity.One of these days I'll learn to buy stocks when they're low and sell them when they're high, instead of the other way around. You could make more money in the market by doing the opposite of what I do.What do I do? I told you. Buy high, sell low. It works for me. It's the only true way to a small fortune in stocks. Start

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Today is a good day to start a personal web site. Everyone else has one. Why not me?I've been wanting to do this for about five years. A personal web site. A place where I can log in from anywhere, jot down a few notes, let everyone in the world read my prose and purpose and patter.It's not that there are few tools to make the online journalistic process easy. Today I wrote a lengthy article on

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