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Mark Morford / SFGate: Attention Liberals: Please Breed / Conservatives are outbirthing libs by a wide margin. How soon can you get knocked up? Let this be your rallying cry. Let it be your new hot-button topic, a raw naked condomless blog-ready wildfire underground grassroots crusade, your juiciest of incentive programs, your inspired call to […]

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Today’s Saratogian has a special pullout section called Saratoga’s Pet Idol. The front cover features Hugh and Jami‘s four dogs (from left): Beagley, Rosco, The Dude, and Mojo. Stella, winner of the 2005 Prettiest Pooch competition at Jen’s office, is a contestant on page 6 of Pet Idol. And Happy Dingo is a contestant on […]

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Yesterday while heading to the Saratoga Visitors’ Center to scope out some info for Jen, fellow Steeplechaser Alysa cruised by. Then it was off to my meeting with Mayor Valerie Keehn — to discuss the controversial charter reform that would Move Saratoga Forward from the antiquated commissioner form of government (we’re one of only about […]

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Kodak EasyShare Gallery: No uploading limits, unlimited storage, great prints, fun photo books, public for-fee gallery, but limited online features like commenting and searching. Flickr: A mere 20 MB per month throughput upload limit for the free account, which already puts me at 75% of my monthly limit for uploading only two events‘ worth of […]

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On Monday, September 4, 2006, we brought new meaning to the final day of the track. Our party posse that day — Jen, Sue, Josh, Hugh, Jami, Eric, Michele, and I — shut down the track. We were literally the last fans to leave. When we left, the track was dark — the sun had […]

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As was the case at last year’s event, Sarah and Eric’s Labor Day party yet again rocked the house on Sunday, September 3 (wow, I don’t know that I’ve ever been nearly a month behind on the blogging! In case you missed that last post, here’s why). View all photos on flickr flickr’s long been […]

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As regular readers have observed, it’s been pretty quiet on my blog lately. When our whirlwind, non-stop, action-packed summer 2006 came to an end in early September — with our symbolic final trip to the track (10th time of the season on the last day of the track season, Labor Day), so, too, did my […]

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When communities come together, great things can happen. I’m consistently amazed by the power of community here in the Northeast. Last month Jen’s cousins’ 200-year-old barn, which had been in the family most of those 200 years, burnt down and took nearly 100 cows with it. Through raffles at the county fair and fundraiser dinners, […]

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Four years ago today we adopted a black and white streak of a dog. At the time, he was named Split because at the Marin Humane Society he would split whenever they opened his cage. And then he was Bobby. And then — and ever since — he was Happy Dingo. Happy circa 2003: Happy […]

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As I mentioned yesterday, Jen and I saw New York State Trooper Joseph Longobardo’s hearse waiting for the funeral to begin. Little did I know what a tremendous and moving event would come a few hours later. As many as 7,500 police and military individuals from around the country arrived in Saratoga yesterday for the […]

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