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To Steve Safran, who I once berated badly on this blog in a moment of hysterical and uncontrolled anger. Turns out, Steve isn’t really such a bad guy after all. In fact, he’s toned down the rhetoric and even admitted that he needs to provide a more balanced approach. In the meantime, [...]
Proving yet again that criticism over overreaching morality is directly related to whether there’s an R or a D after your name, Hillary Clinton and Joseph Lieberman, two hard core conservative Republicans caught a huge backlash of people who just weren’t happy with their tinkering in the video game industry.
Well, not exactly…
In fact, not at [...]
My good friend Ericka is not pleased after sitting through a sales presentation for a new product. I’ll let her tell you the story. Go show the girl some love. She’s a sweetheart and I keep promising her I’ll send some readers her way.
Ahem.
You’re still here…
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I wasn’t going to do it, but I’ve decided to break my cardinal rule. I’m going to reveal the front and back covers for my book. (takes deep breath).
Here they are:
Front:
Back:
Also, I got word today that LuLu has shipped my first self-ordered copy for proofing. I’m thinking it’s the softcover version. [...]
This is top drawer stuff. 10 “hacks” for Bloglines, which, as far as I’m concerned, is the best newsreader ever conceived or produced. Why?
1. It’s web-based meaning I can get to my feeds from anywhere.
2. It’s mobile-web based, which means I can catch up with my feeds on my Blackberry, or [...]
Now this is truly fricking cool… Check it out. You throw a term in, and you get some results. You pick the result set that’s most relevant, and your vote is tallied.
It’s that damn cool.
So far, my results have been consistently in favor of MSN, but today Google did really well.
Poor Yahoo!
There’s [...]
TAMPA, Fla. – A female teacher pleaded guilty Tuesday to having sex with a 14-year-old student, avoiding prison as part of a plea agreement.
Debra Lafave, 25, whose sensational case made tabloid headlines, will serve three years of house arrest and seven years’ probation. She pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery.
The former [...]
Cindy Sheehan must think we’re stupid.
Correction.
Cindy Sheehan does think we’re stupid.
Check out this quote from a statement released today:
But in a statement today, Sheehan accused “right-wing” sites of “spreading a false story that nobody bought my book at Camp Casey on Saturday. That is not true, I sold all 100 copies and got writer’s cramp [...]
The underprivileged rube soldier myth is officially destroyed. USA Today goes a long way here toward not only saying the study is bull, but backing their claims up with actual numbers.
According to a comprehensive study of all enlistees for the years 1998-99 and 2003 that The Heritage Foundation just released, the typical recruit in [...]
By now, you’ve probably heard this story already:
SAGUENAY, Quebec – A 15-year-old girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend, who had just eaten a peanut butter snack, hospital officials said Monday.
Christina Desforges died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday after doctors were unable to treat her allergic reaction to the kiss the previous [...]
I’ll be the first to admit I was never really a “ladies man.” I wasn’t exactly clumsy and awkward, but I had issues talking to really cute girls and even more issues getting trapped in the dreaded friend zone. This weekend, I figured out exactly why.
Beth and I went to Starbucks, as we’re [...]
Sometimes people come up with creative explanations for lying. Sometimes, they just don’t even bother.
“After being notified of the situation and after researching the matter … I came to the conclusion that I was not drafted by the A’s.”
You came to the conclusion? You’ve been slapping something on your resume for 40 [...]
How the left respects our police. Note the token Nazi reference.
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BAKERSFIELD – A local man is speaking out about an ad he placed for his gardening in the Californian, after he got some readers upset readers.
He is simply saying, “It’s not personal, it’s just business.”
But some in the Hispanic community like Lou Gomez the President of the Hispanic Chamber of commerce are calling the ad [...]
A Thanksgiving Prayer, by William S. Burroughs
For John Dillinger
In hope he is still alive
Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986
Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts
thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison —
thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger —
thanks for [...]
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I came across these numbers when I was working on my novel, and I never had a chance to post them. This kind of thing is exactly what I like to put into the category of Media Morons. It just fits:
In the midst of the MSM’s chorus about how two gubernatorial races portend [...]
A rugby fan who cut out his testicles with wire cutters to mark a Wales victory is at a loss to explain why he did it.
Geoffrey Huish, 31, performed the impromptu self-surgery in February when his beloved Wales beat world champions England.
After performing the deed, Mr Huish put his severed anatomy in a bag and [...]
Propaganda delivered worldwide…
DOHA, Qatar–Can Al Jazeera find a home on U.S. cable networks? It’s going to try next spring.
The media company, which operates an Arabic-language news TV channel and Web sites, will open a 24-hour English-language news channel starting in spring 2006 with broadcasting centers in Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington, D.C.
It will also relaunch [...]
As is the case so often, even the smallest rally (in this case, a rally where photographers outnumbered participants) gets mucho presso:
CRAWFORD, Texas — Cindy Sheehan arrived here last summer as an obscure, grieving mother to protest the war that killed her son. On Friday, with President Bush back at his vacation home for the [...]
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