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[video] “The Job”: where greed and need swap places

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H/t Plunderbund who tips Jeff Coryell’s tweet.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:53 pm September 27th, 2008 in Culture, Ethics, Politics, Social Issues | Comments Off 

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27

Paul Newman, RIP

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If you live in Connecticut for any length of time, it’s a good bet you know that Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward have lived there for decades too.  When people from out of town would visit me, when I still lived there, there was always a good chance that we’d drive past a modern-styled house on Racebrook Road that Newman and Woodward had supposedly occupied at one time, not far from most of the thoroughfares I traveled while growing up and living in New Haven after college).  It’s really as though I’ve known of Paul Newman my whole life.

Newman’s devotion to philanthropy stands as an enormous threshold of productivity and generosity I fantasize about replicating some day.  When people quoted in this article say that the world is a better place because he was in it, I completely agree.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:45 pm September 27th, 2008 in Culture, RIP | 2 Comments 

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Reason #39 to vote for Obama/Biden

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For all the previous reasons:

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For readers who are unfamiliar with the Al Chet, this reason to vote for Obama/Biden is patterned after that prayer which I’ll be saying in less than two weeks on Yom Kippur.  There are several haunting prayers we sing, repeatedly, during the day-long fast on the Day of Atonement, but the Al Chet is one of the most soul shaking to me.  Like other prayers during this holiday, it involves the repetition of one refrain after we recite, in groups, our sins:

For all these, God of pardon, pardon us, forgive us, atone for us.

I would alter that refrain for the purposes of these reasons and state,

For all these reasons, on November 4, vote for Obama/Biden.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:36 am September 27th, 2008 in 57ReasonsObamaBiden, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Politics, WH2008 | 2 Comments 

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