Just Curious
Does anyone else watch Letterman because the show is a clusterfuck wrapped in a trainwreck?
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Monthly Archives: February 2005
Should be interesting…
Considering the sad state of cycling in New York City, this should be a very interesting little shindig tomorrow night: OPEN FORUM: THE FUTURE OF CRITICAL MASS AND NYC CYCLING The Urban Center at the Municipal Art Society 457 Madison … Continue reading
Posted in Me Stuff
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The NHL Season Is Officially Cancelled
Just to put this cancellation in perspective, it was over a salary cap. The “last ditch” offer from the league was a $42 million salary cap (per team). The “last ditch” counter offer from the players was a $49 million … Continue reading
Posted in Interesting
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Thrilled does not even begin to cover it…
Armstrong to Go for 7 After much speculation, the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team’s Lance Armstrong today announced his initial 2005 racing schedule, one that will include this summer’s Tour de France where he will go for a seventh straight … Continue reading
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Handing it out like we have a never-ending supply
$82 billion for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? Don’t bet on it… Yahoo! News – War budget request loaded with extras Some $22 billion of the proposed $82 billion supplemental funding that President Bush has requested for the war … Continue reading
Posted in Scary
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Covering the Coverage
A recent study conducted rips into 44 local news affiliates for not running enough coverage on Iraq. Sorry. Let me repeat that in case you misread it the first time. A recent study conducted rips into 44 local news affiliates … Continue reading
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You’re Next!
Think bloggers would never be subjected to the stupidity that is the federal government? Wrong. They want you to shut up before the next election: FEC May Tighten Restrictions On Internet Political Activity Mon Feb 14 2005 10:38:41 ET The … Continue reading
Posted in Scary
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Be glad you don’t live in England…
You think mentioning creation is a bad thing? You think calling evolution a (gasp!) theory is bad? You think we got problems? Think again: David’s Daily Diversions The potential problem has arisen in teaching about Muhammad. The exam board requires … Continue reading
Posted in Scary, Stupid
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Interesting and Unrelated Headlines Juxtaposed
I know they’re unrelated, but when I saw them this morning together in my newsreader, I chuckled…
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How the RIAA is lying to you
Boing Boing, which is really becoming my favorite all around blog, put an analogy up comparing Napster to Go to milk. Here’s the analogy: What if Napster To Go were Napster The Grocery, and milk you bought could only be … Continue reading
Posted in Unfiled
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We live in scary times…
I’m all for tightening security efforts in the interest of protecting public places from terrorism. What I am not in favor of is the complete absense of common sense in doing so. I saw this story this morning on Boing … Continue reading
Posted in Scary
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Not a small number…
Evangelical Christians battle evolution | WORLD | NEWS | tvnz.co.nz Most Americans believe in some form of creationism, according to a CBS poll conducted ahead of last November’s election. 55% of Americans believed God created humans in their present form … Continue reading
Posted in Interesting
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Dumb… Obviously Dumb…
Mike Whitney writing for Al Jazeera, the press arm of Al Qaida for many years now, came up with the dumbest quote ever uttered in a major publication: Two years ago Bush loyalists were bucketing their French wine into America’s … Continue reading
Posted in Stupid, The Middle East
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Zero
Color me stunned.
Posted in Interesting
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New Strain of AIDS, Same Bullshit Story
For years we’ve been told that HIV / AIDS is an equal opportunity offender. That everyone is at risk. The impression is made, in the news, that every blonde-haired blue-eyed all american girl is at risk from contracting the disease … Continue reading
Posted in In The News
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Well, you got what you wanted guys…
I think I was the only one (with maybe the exception of a few other of the Wingnuts who realized that Howard Dean being chair of the DNC was not a good thing. For all the bravado spewing forth from … Continue reading
Posted in In The News
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It took me awhile, but I’m there now…
I was the last of the wingnuts to regularly use an RSS reader. I won’t go into long boring stories and silly details, but suffice it to say I had tried a lot of RSS readers (probably in the neighborhood … Continue reading
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My Way News
My Way News N. Korea Announces It Has Nuclear Weapons By SANG-HUN CHOE (AP) North Korea’s spent nuclear fuel rods, kept in a cooling pond, are seen at the nuclear facilities… Full Image SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea … Continue reading
Posted in In The News
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Surprising, Only to Those Asleep
Yahoo! News – Palestinians Attack Israeli Settlements Palestinians Attack Israeli Settlements By JOSEF FEDERMAN, Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM – Palestinian militants on Thursday fired dozens of mortar shells and homemade rockets at Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip (news – … Continue reading
Posted in The Middle East
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Chestpounding Redux
Use this score instead… I did a bit better
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