Fri 12 March, 2010

15:11 Gory League Highlights» Whiskey Fire
Is the National Football League a bunch of Commies? Yes. No. Yes. And they're gay! (Oh, that's a joke. I have known many NFL players, and only a few of them are transvestites.) On the wider NFL business issue, here...
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14:00 Friday Catblogging: Foot Stool Edition» First Draft
Dr. A and I make the odd joke about turning Oscar into a foot stool upon his demise. He's a big cat so it could work. Of course, we're not serious about it but Della Street seems to be taking...
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10:59 Lost in Translation» Mercury Rising 鳯女
Arturo Valenzuela, State Department: Our response to the coup d’état in Honduras shows that our interests are served by leveraging multilateral mechanisms, in concert with our partners, to support the implementation of principled policies. In Honduras we helped to strengthen the “collective defense of democracy” as a cornerstone of the Inter
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10:36 Perspective» Best of Both Worlds
We all know that western script is read from left to right and vice versa for Arabic and Hebrew. Thus one goes backwards relative to the other. It seems clear enough. But now consider the ubiquitous bottom of the screen scrolling news on your favourite TV channel. It does not seem so intuitive that the western text should begin from the right and s
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09:41 Wankers Of The Day» Multi Medium
Harry Reid and Dick Durbin. After all their pro-public-option posturing, now they’re urging Senate Democrats to vote against any amendments to the woefully inadequate and public-optionless reconciliation bill, even if they’re popular and/or they personally support them. Great plan, make Democrats vote against popular healthcare policies
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09:18 Wrong Messages» A Spork in the Drawer
posted by gyma Do you honestly think we'd be talking about this if men could get pregnant? ROME (AP) -- The decision by a Rome high school to install condom vending machines has set off a storm in Italy, with...
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09:06 Thursday Boyandcatblogging» Dohiyi Mir
Sam really has started to enjoy touching the animals. Suprisingly, Gracey doesn't seem to mind being boyhandled. But she does have limits. ntodd
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08:50 Friday Cat Blogging - The fern, the fern!» It's morning somewhere
I know it's Friday Cat Blogging, but I wanted to share some pictures of my poor little fern. During the long difficult winter, it gets watered some, but not enough. I guess it should be happy it doesn't have to stay outside in the winter. However. In the spring, I take it out. It greens up and flourishes all summer long. When it comes in at the
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08:42 RIP, Granny D» A Spork in the Drawer
posted by gyma "Granny D" Haddock has died at the age of 100, but what a life it was. I was introduced to her in the documentary, Run Granny Run (highly recommended). Granny D nearly unseated Judd Gregg a few...
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08:36 Bad Ripley!!» Plush Life
Ripley's new trick is to run out the front door when I get home at night - she knows I can't chase her (bum ankle) - so she goes bounding off and then ignores my calls for her to come back. Until she's good and ready. Alas, tonight she ran out and then about 30 seconds later came tearing back in - with a cocker spaniel in hot pursuit. Hopeful
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08:00 Weekend Listomania (Special Post-Oscar Edition)» PowerPop
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Make a Wish Foundation director Fah Lo Suee (wink wink) and I will be off to lovely Corning, New York and the palatial estate of former Congressman Eric Massa [D(?) -Embarrassing Loon]. Not really sure what the occasion is, although we've been invited to go snorkeling. I presume he has a r
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06:59 Ah, Fresh Air» A Spork in the Drawer
posted by gyma Fifteen years ago I worked with a guy who was running the numbers on bottled water. We all thought he was crazy. I mean who would pay good money for an individual sized bottle of water when...
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06:18 I've Got Mail» A Spork in the Drawer
posted by gyma Somehow I've ended up on the Patriot Depot's mailing list. Not sure how that happened, but their emails don't end up in the spam filter, which is odd. Any way, I got a love note from these...
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04:16 I Cannot Wait for Bourdain & Ruhlman to Get Hold of This Guy» First Draft
MORAN. Speaking of Ruhlman, I've had this bookmarked for a while: Book sales generally are stagnant but cookbooks keep selling. People want to cook but they’re told at every click of the television remote, in every cookbook, in all the...
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03:24 Annals Of Bad PR Choices» A Spork in the Drawer
In an effort to help rehabilitate his image, Tiger Woods hires... (wait for it) Ari Fleischer! Ye gods... .
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03:16 Today's Stupidest State In The Union» A Spork in the Drawer
Not Mississippi edition. Texas (again): [Texas School Board] member Cynthia Dunbar wants to change a standard having students study the impact of Enlightenment ideas on political revolutions from 1750 to the present. She wants to drop the reference to Enlightenment...
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02:51 Noted In Passing» A Spork in the Drawer
It's been light posting from me this week for the simple reason that it's nearly 70º of Fahrenheit temperature and sunny. So there. .
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02:39 It's Really Not Complicated» Hecate
There's some awfully good writing on the web today concerning abortion. First, GWPDA, in comments at Eschaton , pointed me to this: It’s not my role to judge the patients. I’m not God. My patients have rights. My patients have feelings. My patients have needs, and I need to listen to them. We live in a world where we don’t have a f
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02:22 Thursday Fluff Post» ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
I'm tired. Is there any way of fixing doors where the plywood panels have cracked from old age? My books tell me that there isn't, but I'm hoping to hear otherwise because new doors are not in my budget. I was thinking of gluing 1/4 inch thick panels over the cracked ones and then painting the doors (they are currently stained). Probably not w
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02:08 Ain't Nothing Money Can't Buy» A Spork in the Drawer
posted by gyma For instance, debuting as #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. That's what happens when the author dumps millions of his own money into buying up copies and then giving them away for a nice donation...
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02:01 The Great ACORN fraud» Mercury Rising 鳯女
Andrew Breitbart has posted transcripts of the O’Keefe encounters with ACORN. As FAIR says, the transcripts tell a very different story than the heavily-edited tapes that were released do. For example, in the Baltimore case, O’Keefe says he is a law student and implies that his girlfriend is a prostitute, but confesses they haven’
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01:59 Chicken Shits» A Spork in the Drawer
posted by gyma Sorry to generalize, but in my experience, public school districts are rife with small-minded people. Looks like Mississippi isn't immune to the disease and have decided to punish an entire school in order to prohibit two young...
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00:58 I Wonder If It Rains Frogs» ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
In Paul Ryan's world. Whatever the case might be, Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) is offering us a plan for balancing the federal government budget. It consists of taking government expenditure to the level it last was in 1951 and of providing lots of lovely, happy tax cuts. For some, that is. According to two different (though not right
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00:44 Happy Sebelius Photo: CHOOSE TO KISS MY ASS Edition» First Draft
Hey baby, hey baby, you so fine baby: "You have a choice," she said. "You can choose to continue your opposition to reform." Or, she said, there's the other option. "You can choose to take the millions of dollars you...
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00:42 A Frakking Video Game? Frakkin' A» First Draft
I'm not big on video games. But I am a Battlestar Galatica fan so I thought I'd pass on the news that a BSG video game is in the works for those who care about that sort of thing.
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00:39 So Crazy That People Do It» Dohiyi Mir
Huffpo has a slide show (The Craziest Prohibition Signs: Who Would Try These Things?). This is the second one: Um, have you not heard of abandoning babies in dumpsters? Geesh, it is not funny, it is crazy, and it does...
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00:35 Command and Control» Bouphonia
This morning, I had the odd experience of agreeing with Larry Elder for upwards of three seconds, thanks to the first line of his latest column: The most disturbing part of the ObamaCare debate is not about where Republicans and Democrats disagree, but where they agree. I'd been pondering a post on the very same topic, so imagine my chagrin w
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00:22 Missing The Point» Multi Medium
The problem isn’t that the government lacks an agency “that would provide early warnings of possible systemic collapses,” the problem is that it lacks an agency that will listen to early warnings of possible systemic collapses.
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Thu 11 March, 2010

22:57 In Nigeria» ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Women are demonstrating to demand better government protection against the recent religious/ethnic violence between Christians and Muslims: Hundreds of women have taken to the streets of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, and the central city of Jos in rallies against Sunday's massacre near Jos. The women, mostly dressed in black, demanded that the
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22:50 Oh, For Heaven's Sake, It's the Umpteenth Fricking Early Clue to the New Direction» PowerPop
From 1963, please enjoy Buck Owens and the Buckaroos with the original version of a song that loomed large in Ringo Starr 's legend -- "Act Naturally." I grew up on the Fab Four's cover, of course, but in hindsight, after hearing Buck do it, I'm reminded of Bill Hick 's famous crack that The Beatles were so high they let Ringo sin
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22:49 The Story So Far» A Spork in the Drawer
I was going to do something with "The Dean" making like Herbert Hoover but, I thought, life is too short as it is. Happily, Krugman came along to name Broder the 51st. Hoover. Enjoy! .
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22:20 Regular Guys» Bouphonia
Maggie Gallagher has a new political heartthrob, in the predictable form of Marco Rubio. And why not? He grew up among the poor, so he knows what's best for them and can increase their burdens with a steady hand and a dry eye. "He understands economics in deeply moral terms," unlike the rest of us. He dislikes gay people, and may even be h
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22:15 When Birtherism Isn't Quite Crazy Enough» First Draft
From Album3 Non-hybrid seeds. The stuff that dreams are made of...if you're absolutely bug fuck insane.
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20:53 Your Liberal Media» A Spork in the Drawer
Yesterday, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (RI-01) delivered a barn-burner of a speech on the war in Afghanistan and the "news" media's ignoring of it in favor of trivia: And then, as if to prove Kennedy's point, CNN's Chief Political Correspondent Candy...
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20:52 What has the guy ever fixed?» Rising Hegemon
Now Tiger Woods has hired Ari Fleischer to manage his post-fuckup (and how) re-emergence. From the Packers, to Mark McGuire, to Tiger sports douche behavior is rewarded with a visit with Ari. If that won't put peckers back in their pants I just don't know what will. Next up must be Roerhlisberger.
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20:20 Gang Of 14: Yer Doin It Wrong» Multi Medium
Lindsey seems a little unclear on the concept: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wants to revive the bipartisan Gang of 14 — this time for health care reform, not judicial nominees. But most of his moderate Democratic colleagues aren’t rushing to R.S.V.P. Graham said Tuesday that a coalition of Republican and Democratic senators could rescue the [..
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20:17 Action Maddie!!» Plush Life
...leaping in 5...4...3...2.... AIIIEEEEE!! Maddie is scari when she attacks. Scari? me? U must be mistaken. kaithxbai.
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20:15 Wool-gathering in the third week of Lent» Adventus
Two interesting bits from Huffington Post's "Religion" section that I just want to highlight during the season of Lent. First, an atheist among evangelicals finds out the latter are people, too: There's a widespread impression among evangelicals that secular progressives would like to see them flushed out of the culture. Look at the stran
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16:00 Off to Everafter» Whiskey Fire
Exciting Maximum News from NewsMax! Applicants for the Oval Office in 2012 already have begun lining up, just one year into President Obama's term.... Among the possible candidates is Coast to Coast AM radio talk-show host George Noory, who told...
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13:32 Getting Their Due» Mercury Rising 鳯女
Some of the 300-odd survivors of the 1000-odd Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program came to Washington, DC yesterday to receive some long-delayed recognition. WASHINGTON – Betty Strohfus, 90, has never liked having her feet on the ground. “As a kid, if I couldn’t climb a tree, I’d sit on the roof,” she said. So
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