amy

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Online coupons: Good deal for businesses?

Posted Tue, Feb 1, 3:17 p.m.

Okay, so I'm chiming in a bit late, but I have to take exception to the characterization here of Groupon users as mooches. There are, in fact, Groupon users who are fiscally responsible, budget-minded, home-owning, child-raising, upstanding citizens who are happy to take advantage of a deal when it is ...

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Banished from the garden: yellowjackets

Posted Thu, Oct 2, 10:30 a.m.

re:Really: Actually, bschorfhaar, I don't see. If your daughter were starving, you still wouldn't have the right to steal from others, and it would certainly not be justification to steal a pet (someone else's family member) and kill it for your purposes. I certainly hope you're not my neighbor. I ...

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Banished from the garden: yellowjackets

Posted Wed, Oct 1, 5:08 p.m.

Really?: Does anyone else think it's strange that a self-proclaimed Zen Buddhist dharma teacher declared "war" and then "sprayed the hell out of the nest from twelve feet away and then watched"...? I thought one of the fundamental ethics of Buddhism was to avoid taking the life of beings.

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