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  1. OK Time to Admit it...

    by , August 26th, 2009 at 10:43 AM (Grindel's Lil' Midlife Crisis Online)
    No, nothing shocking or horrifying, sorry!

    But the truth is, I'm getting fat. My mental self-image and my physical self are not the same and haven't been for probably a couple years now. It didn't use to be that way - it wasn't THAT long ago that I was @46" chest and 32" waist. Somehow I've managed to stop the ever-increasing pants size train, but I'm really, really dissatisfied with where I'm at. Looking at pictures is disheartening, especially looking at my face. ...
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  2. Democrats Need to Stop Being Democrats When Discussing Health Care Reform

    by , August 11th, 2009 at 02:46 PM (Grindel's Lil' Midlife Crisis Online)
    This afternoon I received an email from one of the various interests out there on the Left arguing on behalf of health care reform. I have extreme reservations regarding the actual content of the House Bill as I’ve seen it, but in a general sense I am receptive of health care reform. However the email I received pointed out to me glaringly why the Democrats have lost control of the discussion on reform.

    Everything I learned about marketing, I learned in high school (with much, ...

    Updated August 11th, 2009 at 02:49 PM by Grindel

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  3. Political / Economic Definitions

    by , August 4th, 2009 at 08:28 AM (Grindel's Lil' Midlife Crisis Online)
    In a lot of conversations we have around here, people throw around terms like 'liberal', 'conservative', etc. and I'm not sure they give the terms themselves much thought. Below are definitions I wrote up a couple months back on another board (with a couple minor edits to make the definitions more general to this board than specific to the other) that I think will help people understand what I mean when I use them in a discussion.

    Quote Originally Posted by Conservative Definition
    This is particularly difficult because right now
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