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By Tara Overzat I struggle to live in the “now.” As kids, this was so easy. Why is it so hard as adults? Maybe becuase we can’t shake the shackles of our memories, both good and bad. We want to
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Monthly archives for June, 2009
Politicians Aren’t Gods
By Tara Overzat Since when did we only vote for politicians who say they don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t have sex, don’t curse, and don’t poo in public?
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Double, Smothered, Tasered Hashbrowns
By Tara Overzat 3 police officers resigned after one of them tasered a Waffle House employee, completely unprovoked. The Gwinnett County officers had worked a combined 33 years on the force.
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Chinese Marriage Fraud- How the Few Denigrate the Many
By Tara Overzat Desperate times, desperate measures. Young, pretty girls trapped in a Communist country, where college grads are hugely disproportionate to available jobs, where the middle class is growing but hundreds of millions of peasants still work the soil, and where unattractive, unsuccessful foreign men go to escape,
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“He Un-Friended Me!” – Facebook & Rejection
By Tara Overzat It’s a cry of astonishment, an insult, and it sometimes ends in tears when someone “unfriends” or “defriends” you on Facebook. In the simplest of circumstances, it is just a pal from 5th grade who wants to
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“Homeless” Guy follows 2 girls into Lindbergh City Center Parking Lot
By Tara Overzat My neighborhood is a generally safe place, and until last night I never felt uncomfortable walking to and around the Lindbergh City Center restaurants/bars across the street from my apartment . My friend and I
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No Marriage for Anyone, Gay or Straight
By Tara Overzat Why are politicians involved in gay marriage? Why is government involved in marriage at all? “For the kids.” Some people say being raised by both a mother and a father in the same household is best for children. If government wants to incentivize one woman and one man
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Capitalism: Maybe Not the Best, But the Best We’ve Got
By Tara Overzat I believe in capitalism. With any science or philosophy, the point is to question and prod until the best answer is found and to stick with that answer until an even better one is discovered. People accuse me of saying
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Pres. Obama on TV Too Much
By Tara Overzat With all the ills in the country and the world at large, it is high time Pres. Obama get off my flat screen and behind a desk. He somehow has time, long after the election, to appear on “The Tonight Show,” “The Daily Show,”
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US Journalists in N. Korea Sentenced to 12 Years
By Tara Overzat Laura Ling, Euna Lee, US journalists doing a story on North Korean women fleeing into North China, were captured by North Korean border guards three months ago. After a 5 day kangaroo trial, they have been sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp.
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