A couple of weeks ago my brother showed me the music video for the song Handlebars by the Hip-Hop group Flobots. The song is pretty amazing and lyrically rich by itself but the music video really drives the message home. I watched the video 3 or 4 times in a row and each time picked up something different…
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Our country’s capitol punishment rate has been decreasing steadily since 1999 (when in one year 98 people on Death Row were executed). On March 18, 2009, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson signed a bill to repeal the death penalty, making New Mexico the 3rd state in the last two years to abandon the death penalty…
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This girl known as Boxxy generated nearly 1 million hits on YouTube after posting a video expressing her affection for a guy called Addi. The video was titled “FOAR 4DD1 FRUM BOXXY” which for those of you who don’t speak teenager, translates to “For Addi from Boxxy”…
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Ok, so maybe I didn’t “fight” the law but the law definitely caught up earlier this month. I was driving down 116th on my way back from lunch with someone. I was actually paying attention to the speed limits and adjusting my speed accordingly because there are stretches where it drops to 35mph. What I must not have paid attention to was the bright yellow sign denoting that I was driving through a school district. ..
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Inspiration is a fickle creature. I think of like a timid cat hiding under the bed that has to be coaxed out. Most of the time it won’t come to you if you force it. It has to be gently persuaded to come out and let you hold it. And then there are times where you’re just sitting there doing something else entirely and it jumps right up in your lap…
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What do you do when you’re running low on creativity and inspiration? How do you get yourself back on track? I’m going to let you in on a little self-administered therapy I’m prescribing for myself. These are three things I came up with that I need to work on in my personal life. And I can all but guarantee that chances are, you’re struggling with at least one of these…
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Those of you who have been blogging for a while will know this feeling. It’s the feeling you get when you wake up in the morning and look through your blog drafts folder while muttering…crap…boring…overused…not remotely interesting…cheesy. It’s the realization that somewhere along the way that witty, creative, unique blog you set out to write has become a fairly ordinary tabloid magazine with you as the author, reviewer and editor-in-chief…
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Apple has done it again. They’ve released a product so revolutionary that it will change the way we think about portable computing. This amazing new laptop does away completely with the keyboard in a move that will send other computer manufacturers scrambling trying to catch up…
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Friday is the first day of Spring but we’ve already gotten a head start here at the Ruggles house with a trip to Lowes to check out all the fun, green bloomy stuff. Since we’re in an upstairs condo we won’t be able to do the elaborate landscaping projects we’ve done in the past…
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