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You too can be born in Kenya
Talk about being born again.
Robert Schlesinger of U.S. News has a blog entry with his spiffy new "Kenyan birth certificate" which he generated at the Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator. It is of course based on the supposed Obama birth certificate that was in the news last week ( Read more... ) -
There I Fixed It
Via my local TV station -- the one I could get without even an antenna before the digital takeover -- A slideshow of home and car repairs and improvements -- "repairs" and "improvements" being used rather loosely. OK, *very* loosely! -
July 20, 1969
This is another one of those posts where I get to show off how old I am ( Read more... ) -
Sonia Sotomayor, heroine of baseball
On August 12, 1994, the Major League Baseball Players went on strike. All attempts to resolve the differences between the players' union and the owners of the teams fell through. The season just stopped. There were no playoffs. There was no World Series. No Series?!?! "Many baseball fans lamented that while two World Wars, a Great Depression, an ( Read more... ) -
Humor meme
via jeriendhal
(The handful of you who are also friends of mine on Facebook may see this twice. Sorry for the duplication.)
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Ook! Ook!
According to Locus Magazine's website, there's a new Discworld book coming out in "five months":
The Unseen Academicals.
According to both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk, the book will come out in October. (You may of course order, or pre-order, or intend to buy, borrow or steal this book at another bookstore or library near you, or at least more ( Read more... )
