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The Day The TV Died
Rubicon cancelled last month, now Terriers is gone too. Goodbye cruel world, hello comic books. -
The Politics of Tobacco
Never mind the reigning "Death King" plutocrat stereotype of the tobacco magnate. To hell with the common sense we all have regarding the risks of tobacco smoke. Forget for a moment the fact that all smoke (barbecue, camp fire, old engine, etc) contains carcinogens that can and perhaps will kill you slowly.
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Shitty Day Yesterday
The world loses Elizabeth Edwards, and is then forced to sit through pundits droning on and on about the anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the impending anniversary of the death of John Lennon ( Read more... ) -
How Backwards is This
Am I the only one admiring the President for his compromise on the tax cuts? Not in a smug way, either ( Read more... ) -
US judge says lesbians can be ‘cured’ by male soldiers
WOW. Open mouth, insert gavel ( Read more... ) -
Ribkick from Bernanke to the naysayers
BOOM
Without delving into a whole lot of arcana and subtext it's difficult to explain why that speech is just ... ballsy. -
Dissent
You must welcome dissent; you must welcome serious, systematic, proselytizing dissent-not only the playful, the fitful, or the eclectic; you must value it enough, not merely to refrain from expelling it yourselves, but to refuse to have it torn from you by outsiders ( Read more... ) -
LOL Germany
Bosnia and Albania are in the visa-free EU Schengen zone starting mid-December. Germany rued the day it dispensed with the Deutsch Mark and embraced the EU when Greece collapsed and had to be revived via mouth-to-bank. Now the EU is letting two of the most impoverished, unstable, organize-crime-riddled countries in its neighborhood in to play. ( Read more... ) -
Appeal
The killings in Visegrad were so frequent and so numerous that the management of the hydroelectric plant across the border in Serbia appealed in 1992 over the radio for whoever in Bosnia was responsible to stop throwing bodies into the lake because they were clogging up the dam's culverts.
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