234 - Wednesday, September 1st - I was going to post a picture from yesterday, but then I came across this and couldn’t pass it up. BACON SKATES!!!!

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Jan Brewer’s Opening Statement for the Gubernatorial Debate…OMG, It’s a Train Wreck! (via starks602)

Republican, Democrat or whatever, how could you be this unprepared and this inarticulate and expect people to trust you to run their state? 

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My Best Guesses: Week One

College football season is upon us once again. 

I woke up this morning with a renewed sense of hope for the world. Birds were chirping happily, my coffee was delicious and the sun was shining in the clear sky. There was an extra hop in my step, even though I was on my way into work for the day. 

All of that can only mean one thing: there is college football on tonight.

GIGGITY.

Of course, it’s a poo-poo platter of Southern Miss at South Carolina and U$C at Hawaii, but still- FOOTBAW!!! For those of you lucky enough to get Versus, you can watch a quasi-interesting matchup between #15 Pitt and Utah that could prove interesting. So, there is hope. 

This Saturday isn’t a whole lot better. Not a lot of marquee games to take in, but after months of waiting, I’m more about quantity than quality at this point. I’d watch a whole slate of Division III games, if that was the only thing on. 

I’m desperate and I don’t care who knows it. Heck, tonight, I may even pop open my laptop and take in Norfolk State at Rutgers on ESPN3.com while I watch Southern Miss at South Carolina. I’m shameless.

This year, I’m doing the ESPN Pick ‘Em every week in addition to my regular picks column (which, once my hosting company gets FourthAndBlog.com pointing back at Tumblr, will be located over there), so I’ll be basing the games that I pick off of the list they give. 

So, without further ado, my week one picks!

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So, this happened. 

09:25 am, by naternet  Comments

233 - Tuesday, August 31st - Ever since Sara re-arranged my office and I hung my TV on the wall, this has been happening far too often. I may have a potential problem on my hands…

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Hops Holster

With more regional breweries looking into cans, this may be something I need to look into. Good for any occasion.

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Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally - Interviews With Participants (via NewLeftMedia)

Okay, this is not going to make me popular in the eyes of some people, but I can’t take this anymore. 

  • Who divided the country? Right-wing media. Limabugh, Beck, Hannity, Fox News have been attacking Obama over every single thing he does after the slavishly lavished praise on George Bush for eight years. The same thing was done to Clinton in the 90’s. Fair and balanced? Really?!
  • THAT IS NOT A MOSQUE in NYC. Freedom of religion applies to everyone, whether Christians like it or not. And, guess what, your opinion about it means shit unless you live in Manhattan. End of discussion.
  • Obama’s a racist? Really?! I’m not even going to dignify that. But the fact that most of these people have no idea that Glenn Beck did say that on Fox News is pretty indicative of how educated they are about the person that they follow hook, line and sinker.
  • Immigration policies do need to change, that’s true. But racial profiling is not the way to go. What, are we going to round them up in concentration camps?Perhaps if there were no AMERICAN CORPORATIONS willing to hire illegal immigrants, they would be less likely to brave illegal border crossings. Just a thought.
  • These people have been snowed. They buy whatever is fed to them without question and don’t investigate things for accuracy, facts and truthfulness. If you insulate yourself from dissent and differing opinion, there is no limit to what you can be made to believe. I’m sure that most of these people are reasonable and decent in their everyday life, but they’ve been led to believe that the only way to go through life is with fear and hatred in their hearts. It makes me sad and angry, but not angry at them, angry at the hucksters like Glenn Beck who fill their minds with bullshit and lies.

    Don’t get me wrong, the other side would do the same thing, if they had the influence that talk radio has in the right-wing of America. But they don’t, so this kind of shit happens. The Fairness Doctrine needs to be re-instituted as an FCC rule. 

    Beck and Limbaugh and all of the rest of them PROFIT off these people. Glenn Beck made $32 million dollars last year. Do you really think he gives two shits about Joe and Jane American? 
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