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Have you returned your Census Form yet? Only once or did you do it twice??

Have you returned your U.S. Census Form (or questionnaire or whatever you want to call it) yet? You should.

On the other hand, as Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” jokingly suggested last week — if we all refuse or fail to return our Census Forms, we’ll create a ton of temporary jobs for Census workers. Maybe??

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Coming down to ‘crunch time’ for health care reform

All news points to a resolution of some kind, an “up or down vote,” on the President’s health care reform efforts within the next week or so. Fortunately, I’ve been able to get by medically and “healthwise,” without a lot of health issues in recent years — beyond simply trying to find the best weight loss supplements or vitamin/mineral supplements.

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Battlegrounds in fights over censorship changing

I remember back in the “good old days” (say, anytime before about 1970?) when censorship and censorship issues making the news generally focused on matters of sex and/or graphic violence. But in recent years, with the advent of the Internet and corresponding availability of “information” — ranging from real information to widespread access to p*rn sites — the battlegrounds upon which censorship issues are fought have been changing.

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