Archives for the 'other' Category
Stinker Of A Decision
Published on 27 Mar 2009 at 12:52 am.
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For a cop who can’t smell. He’s out of a job. AP. Olfactory impairment sounds like a problem, though.
Welcome To Massachusetts!
Published on 13 Mar 2009 at 10:30 am.
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Advocates of gay marriage insisted they are no different than straights, and trotted out the suburban poster couples. But we should celebrate our differences, and also, not forget that love blooms at all ends of the social spectrum. Berkshire Eagle:
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Disturbing A Funeral
Published on 5 Mar 2009 at 12:30 pm.
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It’s a charge. Who knew? Dunno if that was instituted in reaction to the “God Hates Fags” crowd or if funeral disturbance is a larger issue.
Top Gun: Gay Epic
Published on 31 Dec 2008 at 11:32 am.
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Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Quentin Tarantino at YouTube explains all. Via Jonah Goldberg at The Corner. Looks like this thing’s been around for a while, and a co-worker now tells me SNL did a gay Top Gun skit with Val Kilmer, but it’s new to me. All this time I thought Top [...]
Kumbayah, My Whatever
Published on 23 Dec 2008 at 8:44 am.
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I was getting ready to snark on this Melissa Etheridge post at Huffpo, as heartfelt celeb activist statements are eminently snarkable. But it actually seems to represent a sincere effort to bridge divides, understand others, and get away from labeling everyone a homophobe who doesn’t like the way a handful of judges are reordering society … to [...]
Survival
Published on 3 Jun 2008 at 9:08 pm.
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TIME takes a look at surviving disaster. Some interesting stories about how people react and what kinds of reaction and preparation work. Some of which, like Rescorla’s, may be familiar.
Gasp Protest
Published on 16 May 2008 at 8:24 pm.
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Sheboygan man kicks a stand against gas prices. He’s parked the pickup and is biking it. via The Consumerist. It’s summer time. Or spring, whatever. Work’s only 9 miles away. Only one problem:
”I’m not in the greatest shape. The mornings are the worst. It feels like it takes forever. I get like a mile down [...]
Dark Forces
Published on 18 Apr 2008 at 12:47 am.
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Mysterious forces. Powerful forces, abroad in the land. Engaged in a shadow war.
You Are Getting Sleepy
Published on 16 Apr 2008 at 10:28 pm.
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This sound familiar? Large numbers of American get insufficient sleep. Modern life is bad for you. McClatchy:
Le Vie Mickey
Published on 3 Apr 2008 at 10:56 am.
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Life imitates the Dissident Frogman. Kind of eerie, Hugo like Che with mouse ears. It’s almost like the image of Elvis manifesting in a tortilla or a Virgin Mary pizza or something.
Post-9/11 Era?
Published on 6 Nov 2007 at 9:22 am.
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More like post-Seinfeld. Pro-Israel UN watchdog/unassuming Canadian Hiller Neuer is mistaken for a deranged killer in a suburban Boston pizza shop. Boston Herald. Go for the photos, stay for the 911 tape, and Hiller’s own story in his own words. Our tale begins Friday in sleepy Needham … one town over from Waltham, the fictional “Latham” of [...]
Dung-Faced
Published on 26 Oct 2007 at 7:54 am.
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Drunk jumbos fatally jolted.
Ad Issues
Published on 12 Oct 2007 at 1:16 pm.
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I’m told some sites have been having a problem with explicit late-night ads that are not part of their normal ad program. Apparently it’s a virus problem that is taking place not within the site but within readers’ computers, due to infection picked up elsewhere. If you are experiencing this, Ad-Aware’s free software reportedly will take care of [...]
It’s A Small World After All!
Published on 11 Oct 2007 at 8:14 am.
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Empire State Building to Go Green … for Eid!
Islamists in Pakistan drill holes in giant rock Buddha and pack them with dynamite. Mullah Fazullah’s followers also blow up dozens of marketstalls dealing in forbidden DVDs, CDs and lipstick.
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Please Refrain from Speculation
Published on 10 Oct 2007 at 9:26 am.
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Healing process underway. Strong arm of Jesus has its work cut out. Smoking Gun re dead reverend’s rubber fetish:
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The Doctor Is Input
Published on 5 Oct 2007 at 6:27 pm.
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Bad news for shrinks. You’re being replaced by machines. Right now. Of course it is the British National Health Sevice, where I’m willing to bet machines for any number of cultural and bureaucratic reasons are preferable. But you’re still being replaced by machines. I don’t know about you, but as a Yank of uptight, stiff upper [...]
Blue Watch
Published on 5 Oct 2007 at 7:59 am.
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Theo Spark, busy all week digging up potatoes, unearthed this odd tale about firefighters reprimanded for disturbing gay sex act:
Lurxst
Published on 20 Sep 2007 at 12:33 am.
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Too bad there aren’t more like ”lurxst,” not afraid to tell everyone how he, she, it, whatever “lurxst” is, feels. Daily Kos:
I Don’t Support the Troops..oops, there, I said it
Ugh Say Brain Different
Published on 10 Sep 2007 at 10:15 am.
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This UCLA/NYU study says lefties and righties think differently. Open-minded lefties, rigid righties use different parts of their brains. Righties, has it happens, get it wrong more. Lefties enlightened, righties … troglodytes.
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Third-World’s Stupidest Criminal
Published on 6 Sep 2007 at 10:17 am.
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Jungle Trader’s leading today with an unlucky Tanzanian thief killed by angry villagers on his way to procure an amulet to protect him from police arrest!
You’ll want to check in with the trader for all your Third World news. Make sure not to stop scrolling before you get to the vicious wasp attack on tourists [...]
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Wish I’d Thought of That
Published on 30 Aug 2007 at 7:50 pm.
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Now this is what I call horse trading.
So, er, what am I bid for this lone argyle sock? It was worn by a peg-legged bagpiper at the Battle of Culloden, and has genuine historical value . . .
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Snake-Charming the Dragon
Published on 28 Aug 2007 at 6:27 am.
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The schizophrenic response to radical Islam that characterizes many on the Left puts me in mind of an episode from the fascinating science-fiction novella written by the comic Russian author, Mikhail Bulgakov, in 1924. It is a tale of an experiment gone terribly wrong, the fatal eggs of the title giving rise to a swarm [...]
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Bohemian doctorate
Published on 24 Aug 2007 at 2:17 pm.
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Call him Dr. Queen. Guitarist Brian May did not go through 37 years of astronomy school just to be called Mr. May, thank you.
Excuse Me
Published on 23 Aug 2007 at 10:29 pm.
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I just have to step out for a minute …
Cards Don’t Lie
Published on 20 Jul 2007 at 1:28 am.
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This thing works. I am the Hermit. Whatever that means:
Pulp and Circumstance
Published on 20 Jul 2007 at 12:57 am.
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Check out Jenna, former Herald EA* extraordinaire, now eclectically music blogging at the magnificently named Pulp and Circumstance.
Look Kills
Published on 10 Jul 2007 at 10:36 am.
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MEXICO CITY - A giant sinkhole swallowed an onlooker and a stretch of street on Mexico City’s east side, forcing the evacuation of 30 families, authorities said.
Little Liars
Published on 2 Jul 2007 at 8:00 am.
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Tell me something I don’t know. UK’s Telegraph, Babies not as innocent as they pretend:
Whether lying about raiding the biscuit tin or denying they broke a toy, all children try to mislead their parents at some time. Yet it now appears that babies learn to deceive from a far younger age than anyone previously suspected.
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Season’s Over
Published on 26 Jun 2007 at 9:45 pm.
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But it was a great one. My scorekeeping was off. They were 11-2 last week, not “something like 17-2,” though it felt like it, most of those wins heavily lopsided. They’re 11-3 now, because the mighty Pirates got a taste of their own medicine and got sunk by the Mets in their National League Championship game tonight. 14-5.
Business As Usual
Published on 26 Jun 2007 at 2:34 am.
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… for the Jungle Trader. Takes me back to when I was a little boy in Derkaderkastan. He’s got all kinds of elephants in all kinds of trouble. There’s a “trained” tiger and a couple of leopard fights. Your obligatory thief-beating. Never any shortage of snakes, not where he hangs out. A little cannibalism. Angkor and a couple of mummies. What [...]
Crittenden Gets It Done
Published on 21 Jun 2007 at 2:00 am.
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Ian Crittenden, age 11, hits the walk-off single, batting in the run that ended a 12-12 tie in the 8th inning of a 6-inning playoff game.
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Father’s Day
Published on 17 Jun 2007 at 9:16 am.
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I’m a dad. I have three kids, a wife and a bulldog. I have a ballgame to go to. I can’t sit around here all day.
Here. Go to Maggie’s Farm. Go to Thunder Run. Go to Badgers Forward, follow his link to RCT6 and do like he says and tell the jarheads you love them. I’m sure [...]
Loss, Identity
Published on 16 Jun 2007 at 3:35 pm.
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Gerard van der Leun’s moving and somewhat disturbing tale of identity and loss in war at American Digest.
The only person I’ve ever heard of with my name is an elderly black gentleman in Alabama.
United States of GDP
Published on 15 Jun 2007 at 12:36 pm.
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The American states, labelled to reflect their comparable GDPs. I live in Belgium. No California = France, Texas = Canada, West Virginia = Algeria jokes, please. What the heck, have at it. New Hampshire = Bangladesh? Ouch.
(Brought to you by reader/troll Corndog, who when he is not being a moron is sometimes moderately unstupid. By the [...]
Check Yourself Out
Published on 15 Jun 2007 at 12:23 pm.
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Here.
Signs of the Times
Published on 12 Jun 2007 at 10:00 am.
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Bilingualism: “Attention Dog Guardians … Attention Dogs …”
Inducement to use pubic transportation: “Keep back from platform edge … “
Year of the Fetish Shoe
Published on 11 Jun 2007 at 11:13 am.
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Declared by Manolo’s Shoe Blog. Have to say I’d be more impressed if that spiky S&M-inspired number had spikes pointing inward at the ankles, a short chain in between, and maybe razor blades embedded in the instep. h/t Pajamas.
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God, Not Man
Published on 7 Jun 2007 at 11:42 pm.
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Jungle Trader:
A few thousand villagers in the South Pacific worship Britain’s Prince Philip as a god. The Christian Science Monitor has a story about the cargo cult.
Very quaint. But who are we with our strange belief systems to sneer?
Againstism
Published on 5 Jun 2007 at 9:52 am.
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A quick roundup from the war to the ladies room.
Dan Senor at WSJ on what the party of surrender doesn’t want to talk about: Iraq war opponents who don’t want to leave, and what happens if we do.
Grungy Punks Annoy Smelly Hippies
Published on 3 Jun 2007 at 10:36 pm.
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Michelle Malkin brings us the latest from my old neighborhood. Hippie backlash in Haight-Ashbury. There isn’t really anything new about this. I lived there in the late 70s and early 80s, and ex-hippies engaged in gentrification were complaining about the suburban runaway skateboard anarchist punks who wanted money for beer and pot.
Ed Driscoll resurrects a Jonah Goldberg riff [...]
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Show Won’t Go On
Published on 2 Jun 2007 at 10:52 am.
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What a disappointment. That Dutch kidney reality show. Not real. Turns out the Dutch may have us hands down on disturbing tastelessness after all, just not the way we thought. Too bad. I was really hoping we were moving into new territory. The reality show as social advocacy.
Rising Sun
Published on 29 May 2007 at 7:41 am.
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Japan takes over the Universe. Without even amending its pacificist constitution.
Meanwhile, Mexicans express their displeasure at the United States’ insistence on law and order by being rude to a woman.
10 Principles of Economics
Published on 20 May 2007 at 10:05 am.
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Even you can be smart once you grasp a few simple principles:
