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85Top Twelve Explanations for Alien Abductions
The movie The Fourth Kind came and went and I missed it, due to emergency family issues on the health and home front. I was going to write this hub before the movie blew out of town, and I did want to see...
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91Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood and the Coming Plague
Margaret Atwood's most recent novel The Year of the Flood is a continuation of Oryx and Crake, the 2003 dystopian masterpiece that she calls 'speculative fiction' (as opposed to 'science fiction'). Whatever...
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89Bimbo Bashing and Other Inglorious Sports
With the release of her autobiography Going Rogue, Sarah Palin is everywhere again. (Did she ever go away?) The Divine Mrs. P is on the news, making the talk show circuit, in bookstores, on the...
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90Buy a High-efficiency Pellet Stove Online
The first winter we spent in our small home in west central Michigan we used the oil furnace that came with the house. We spent about $1800 on fuel oil that winter. By the next winter, oil prices had...
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88Ten Annoying TV Commercials I Never Want to See Again
Already I am breaking my promise to myself to write 100 hubs fast and dirty, just push to myself over the 100 Hubs in 30 Days Challenge hump and get on to earning wheelbarrows full of ad revenue. Already I...
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89You Know Your Marriage Is in Trouble When...
How do you know when your marriage is in trouble? A cynic might answer, "When you get married." In the United States today, way more marriages end in divorce than end in conubial "til-death-do-us-part"...
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88Top Ten Really Scary Movies
This hub is a guarded response to Mighty Mom's hub-challenge to create the other half of my Top Ten Worst Horror Movies Ever. (You can read Mighty Mom's own hub 10 Scariest Movies Ever by clicking this...
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95How to Retire on No Money
I don't know about you, but every time I read one of those retirement planning guides or see that Ameriprise commercial where Dennis Hopper sits in the middle of a highway on a plastic tub chair shaking his...
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79Top 10 Worst Horror Movies Ever
When I was kid, a million years ago or so, we had a TV show that aired at 11:00 PM every Friday night called Shock Theater. Shock Theater had a live host (whose name, sad to say, I can no longer remember)...
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77I Quit: How to Know When It's Time to Give Up
Here's a bit of insight into my basic character: When I turned 19 I moved out of my parents' house against their wishes and enrolled in college. I got a job as a waitress and a room in a house shared by four...
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