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Bearding the Democrat donkey in his den
Sent September 30th 2010Bearding the Democrat donkey in his den _ Bearding the Democrat donkey in his den _ There’ve been some really weird stories in the news this week. Bizarre stuff. In England, the owner of Segway, the company that makes those nifty two-wheeled gyro-st...
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Water water everywhere
Sent August 19th 2010Water water everywhere _ Water water everywhere _ No matter where you live, you’ve heard about California’s water problems. You’ve heard how dire the situation is. Most cities have strict water rationing, all manner of development (even solar energy...
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Back from vacation
Sent August 5th 2010Back from vacation _ Back from vacation _ Okay, right off the bat let me confess: I did not intend to take the whole month of July off. Cripes, who am I, John Kerry with a seven million dollar yacht and no real job? My intent was to fly to Michigan ...
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Obama the athlete
Sent June 29th 2010Obama the athlete _ Obama the athlete _ Barack Obama is almost entirely a creature of myth, and one of those myths is that he's athletic. This shouldn't matter, but for some reason it irritates the crap out of me. One more comment from lovestruck j...
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Old soldiers fade away
Sent June 24th 2010Old soldiers fade away _ Old soldiers fade away _ Two days ago, President Obama accepted the resignation of General Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, because of insubordinate comments in today’s Rolling Stone Mag...
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One long wave and one short mast
Sent June 17th 2010One long wave and one short mast _ One long wave and one short mast _ / “The long and short of it is, well, one long wave and one short mast.” - Abby Sunderland / Mysteriously, the story of 16-year-old Abby Sunderland’s attempt to sail around the w...
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The perfect game that wasn't
Sent June 10th 2010The perfect game that wasn't _ The perfect game that wasn't _ Pitching a perfect game in baseball is not the rarest accomplishment in sports. It’s not even the rarest accomplishment in baseball. There have been 19 perfect games thrown in Major Leagu...
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Gulf oil disaster: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Sent June 7th 2010Gulf oil disaster: the good, the bad, and the ugly _ Gulf oil disaster: the good, the bad, and the ugly _ It’s been 49 days now since British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling platform had a blowout, late on Tuesday evening, April 20. O...
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Aesop for president
Sent May 23rd 2010Aesop for president _ Aesop for president _ Politicians are a trip, aren’t they? They’ll say */anything/* to get elected. Some of them lie so often and so consistently that they end up with elaborate fantasy lives that become reality to them. There...
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May Day
Sent May 17th 2010May Day _ May Day _ We tend to form generalizations about groups of people based upon personal experiences with individual members of those groups. That’s called prejudice. Not all prejudices are negative. For instance, I tend to have favorable opi...
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