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you're such a HAM!”
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about
Affirmative Action in
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racists. You should see the
things he calls
me in the
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9:07PM - “In our cushy suburban
district, every other home had
a lawyer
in it. No
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7:12PM - “Bingo!!!”
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Weis Isn't Right....either
The head coaching tenure of Charlie Weis at Notre Dame University appears to be coming to an end. At this point it is only speculation, but that speculation is rather solid. Notre Dame… Read full post »
Missives from Morons
Today I read and responded to a post by a moronic blogger who offered up some absurdly incomprehensible racist essay. I am not even entirely sure what it was about. The title wa… Read full post »
Six Years, and Counting!
In the time it takes a zygote to get to first grade, the University of Michigan still cannot figure out how to beat The Ohio State University in football. Ohio State’s head coa
… Read full post »Palin "palienates" Noblesville Indiana
Sarah Palin stiffed a crowd of her fans at a Borders Bookstore in Nobelesville Indiana yesterday. Many in the crowd waited 9 hours in the cold and the rain to get a chance to see Palin, and have her sign the copy that they were required to purchase in advance. The… Read full post »
10 Year Old Terrorist Refused to Take Shower
November 11th, in a small town in Arkansas, a major crime wave was abated before it could become a tsunami that could have swallowed the nation, by the actions of one intrepid officer. /… Read full post »
Republican Anxiety: Could it be....
Like a “typical liberal”, I was scanning the NY Times this evening and found an interesting article about exercise and anxiety. Researchers at Princeton University m… Read full post »
Why Conservatives Oppose Conservatism
The late 18th century and early 19th century were particularly important times in the history of the Western world. The American colonies overthrew an imperial power to become the Unite… Read full post »
#6 Comes Before #23
The obsequiousness of the corporate lackey, in the role of sports hero is a sad, sad thing to observe. LeBron James has lifted the fortunes of a moribund basketball franchise, the Cleve… Read full post »
Sayonara Futenma
On August 6th, 1985 I landed on Okinawa, Japan at Kadena Air Force Base. There was no modern terminal at the Air Base, so they had to roll one of those stairwells that is actuall… Read full post »
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to stand trial in Civilian Court in New York City according to a New York Times report. This is a fascinating turn of events considerin/… Read full post »
Progressives: Stay and Reason
Dear Jilted Fellow Democrats,
I understand your displeasure with the DNC. I really do. But allow me a few moments to keep you from leaving your support of the Democratic Party fo… Read full post »
Kareem Abdul Jabbar has Leukemia.
The annus horribilis for celebrities continues. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar announced Monday that he has Leukemia. Read about it in detail in the NY Times.
Jabbar rose to pro… Read full post »
Who is Barack Obama, REALLY?
Lets say Barack Obama is not who he says he is. Who decided that he should be this person who eventually became President of the United States at the age of 47? How did this per… Read full post »
Ohio Chooses Casinos. Monte Carlo, We Ain't!
On Tuesday, November 3rd 2009, Ohio became the 38th state to allow casino gambling. In celebration of that step toward progress, I invoke the age old wisdom of Mother Goose in the following.
This is… Read full post »
MSNBC is now reporting "a shooter", now identified as Jason Rodriguez, has shot 8 people at the Gateway Center in Orlando Florida. WESH-TV is covering the event from a helicopter. &nbs… Read full post »
There are reports this afternoon that there are one or more shooters at a PX (Post Exchange) at Fort Hood, Texas. Ft. Hood is reportedly the largest military base in the world with 50,000 military person… Read full post »
From the people who brought you co-existant dinosaurs and humans, we have much chest thumping about the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia. DJohn, and Gordon Osmond have said that the fact of these… Read full post »
A SIGN of things NOT to COME.
Opinions of the writers are not necessarily shared by the editorial staff. But then again, they may be. We never know.
&nbs… Read full post »
"Like Martha F--king Stewart", she said.
A little bit of justice happened today. The specter of corporate greed, and the right wing believers in the false concept of a “free market”, received an education today. Hedge fun… Read full post »
The New Missouri Compromise
Can one get thru a discussion of Rush Limbaugh without using the word for the particular brand of divisiveness that begins with the letter “R”? Let’s see. Rush Limbaugh is seeking to purchase the… Read full post »
Should Hadrian be Embrarrassed?
It is settled. The world exists in such a way and we know precisely how that is, right? We know that our way is the only way, and the further one gets from our way, the further they get from… Read full post »
Tech-zilla meets Kind of Blue: A Long Comment
Our “Gregarious” , aka Kind of Blue, Greg posed an interesting question today. Thank you, Greg. In it he asks, “is technology ruining us?&rdqu… Read full post »
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