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- Marine Le Pen
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Tag Archives: Blogging
Blogging In Real Time
Tamara is a 20-something third year law student. She writes a dating blog for the Jewish Journal called Tattletales. Watch our complete interview. Tamara went to Adat Ariel Conservative Jewish day school through sixth grade and graduated from Calabassas High … Continue reading
Posted in Tamara Shayne Kagel
Tagged blog, Blogging, field trip, jewish day school, Jewish Journal, junior statesmen of america, oh god, real time, star kids, stripper, tamara, undergraduate degrees
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I’m Watching The Super Bowl Live On My Cam!
Click here to join the fun. I don’t have strong feelings about the game. I don’t care much about either of the teams. I hope something controversial happens so I can provide some scintillating blogging about it and get oodles … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Alexander Technique, Blogging, feelings, kiddy, marques colston, oodles, super bowl, teenage wasteland, watching the game, Yoga
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Los Angeles Is Trying To Tax Me For Writing Out Of My Home
At the suggestion of my accountant, I filed for a business license in January for my self-employed blogging and other media ventures. Today I picked up a tax bill from the city of Los Angeles for $416.88 for taxes, penalties … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged accountant, Blogging, business license, media ventures, suggestion
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I’ve Never Been Surprised By Anything I’ve Done
I’m watching this movie "The Brave One." About 40 minutes in, the Jodie Foster character talks about how she’s discovered a stranger within herself. Are some people that unaware that when they do something horrible, they blame it on a … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged Blogging, character talks, impulses, jodie foster, stranger
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‘Why Is It Always About You? Saving Yourself from the Narcissists in Your Life’
This is an excellent book by Sandy Hotchkiss. I heard of it from Dr. Stephen Marmer, a psychiatrist, who was speaking on Dennis Prager‘s radio show. Like most narcissists, I became one to overcome early childhood shame. Feeling superior and … Continue reading
Posted in Narcissism, Personal
Tagged Blogging, Dennis Prager, disasters, dr stephen, early childhood, free blogging, grandiosity, lack of respect, late twentieth century, narcissists, omnipotence, orthodox judaism, psychiatrist, radio show, sandy hotchkiss, secularization, shame, spiritual presence, thinking outside the box, time and space, unlimited possibilities, unreality, younger generation
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