May 2008
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Here’s some Wilco, enjoy your weekend....
The Real Fight Over Fake News - Bits - Technology... →
If I could watch The Daily Show and a few other select shows online in high quality, or at least Hulu-type quality, the only thing I’d really need cable for is sports. Once those all go online, there goes my cable subscription. For the most part, I don’t even care if cable network shows are in HD, either. With sports, that would be a big issue. But, down the road, streaming HD-quality...
Radiohead to Prince: Unblock 'Creep' cover videos... →
I’m torn on who to support here: On one hand, I’m a HUGE Radiohead fan and also a fan of free and open access to information on the internet. On the other hand, I’m from Minnesota, where we are legally required to love and admire Prince in all his incarnations. I’ll have to retire to my chambers to deliberate on this issue further…
Stupid Secretary WTF - The Daily WTF →
Amazing. Simply amazing.
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Trouble With Dreams #1
I had a dream last night that began with me taking singing lessons from a high school girlfriend in a large opera hall (I don’t sing, I’m basically tone-deaf) and ended with me being chased through a lumberyard, sort of playfully, by a black bear cub. But, I was terrified. Go figure…
At Least One Killed by Crane Collapse in Manhattan... →
Okay, New York, that’s enough. All of you will live in thatch huts from now on. Your high-rise crane privileges are revoked.
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The 6 Least Plausible Jobs Held by Steven Seagal... →
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What Kind of Blogger Am I?
Seriously. I’ve asked myself this multiple times over the past few weeks. I can’t make up my damn mind. I love Tumblr, but I like to occasionally pontificate and ramble on for pages at a time, as well, and Tumblr isn’t especially condusive to that. So, maybe I want to go back to Wordpress or Blogspot. But then I wouldn’t be able to quickly and easily post links to...
Eight reasons you'll rejoice when we hit... →
More European? That means we’d become like the French! This cannot happen!!! (I’m kidding, of course. I’d love to see more public transportation and innovation in personal transport.)
Michael Calderone's Blog: CNN's Yellin: Network... →
Not that this surprises me at all, but it’s still terrible to hear it.
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Dunkin' Donuts yanks Rachael Ray ad - The Boston... →
I KNEW IT! I knew Rachel Ray was nothing more than a no-good beheading terrorist! Why else would she have to hurry up and cook those “30 Minute Meals?” More time to behead infidels and make jihad! She’s evil, EVIL!!! Seriously, though,Michelle Malkin is just another one of these new McCarthys whose xenophobic fears and baseless rants are making America look like a bunch of...
Op-Ed Columnist - Truth or Consequences - Op-Ed -... →
A lot of what Tom Friedman writes can be hard to swallow, but once you think about it, he’s usually right. In this instance, I didn’t even have to think about it, I only had to swallow and continue to look toward the day when my trusty Honda Civic kicks the bucket and Sara and I buy our first hybrid or (pleasepleaseplease) electric car. Then, there is no turning back.
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We Still Miss You, Phil… →
Phil Hartman died ten years ago today. I can still remember hearing about this. When I was reminded that it was ten years ago today, it made me legitimately sad. Phil Hartman was one of my…
Scott McClellan on the "liberal media" - Glenn... →
I’m not sure if this makes me feel vindicated or just more upset. Fucking spineless press corps…oh well, at least we still have Helen Thomas.
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I Need A Niche
I really do. I very much enjoy writing about various far-reaching topics. I like delving into my many interests and tossing nuggets of information that I’ve gleaned over the years out for people to peruse. But I need to narrow my focus when I write for other people to read. I need to winnow things down and focus in on one or two things that I really really like. But, I doubt that will ever...
Indiana Jones & The Movie That I Genuinely Enjoyed →
So sue me.
Aside from a few shitty script detours (Mutt swinging through the jungle on vines to catch up with the car chase, certain pockets of awkward dialogue, the ants(overdone), not enough…
What was Jesus? →
…I’m going to hell for linking this, aren’t I?
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A New Dishwasher, Say Goodbye to Post-Adolesence.
We bought a dishwasher last night. From Sears, of all places. The dishwasher we have has been in our house since before we bought it, four years ago. From the look of it, it’s been here since before the previous owners lived here, too. Plus, it sounds like a jet engine when it runs. We were long past due in getting a new one. But here’s the sad part: I’m actually legitimately...
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Friday...
So, I woke up at 4AM this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep, no matter how hard I tried. It didn’t help matters that, since Sara dislikes falling asleep without the TV on and at some point had turned it to the Cartoon Network, I was distracted from returning to sleep by four straight episodes of Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law. I love my wife, but sometimes her quirks backfire and...
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Growing Up Nate: Big-Boy Firecrackers →
As those of you who have been reading these little forays into my formative years know by now, I had a quirky childhood. Not as weird as some people, to be sure, but I had my fair share of…
Hitchens Is What He Reads… →
“Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America”(1)
A recent glance at the results of a computer generated search for the entry “Thomas Jefferson Biography,” indicates that it is…
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Awful Announcing: First Take's Finest Hour:... →
Proof positive that there is too much ESPN for the amount of sports news that we currently have. This is the kind of thing that I’d expect to see on ESPN8 “The Ocho,” but not on regular old ESPN. Against a bear? Honestly? Up next, can Olympic long-jumpers out-jump a kangaroo and can the men’s 4x100 team outrace a pack of cheetahs?
Ancient Chinese irrigation system stands test of... →
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal... →
My 6-year-old son and I flipped a coin to determine what movie we should drop $14 worth of coin on (I hate that term… ‘coin’); Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Kingdom, Ironman, or…
TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Conyers on... →
I like this Conyers kid, he’s got vim and vigor. He’ll go far with that kind of attitude…
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Crossing Over to the Dark Side
For the past month or so, I’ve been glued to my TV, obsessively watching every minute of the NBA playoffs. I love basketball almost as much as I love football, but due to my ADD-addled brain, I can’t make myself follow along for an 82 game season. But the playoffs? That’s a whole other beast. Ever since I first became interested in sports on television, I’ve obsessively...
Daily Kos: 8/25/07: Clinton DNC operatives strip... →
Please send this to ANYONE you know that actually buys Hillary’s BS about always wanting to seat Florida and Michigan.
Ellen Challenges John McCain On Gay Marriage:... →
I grew tired of Ellen around 1995 and frankly, was not aware that she still had a talk show, but I do applaud her for standing up to McCain on this issue. There’s nothing like a lightweight former comedian daytime talk show host grilling a Presidential candidate to put our actual newsmen(and women) to shame. God Bless America
Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Hillary Gets... →
Are you FUCKING kidding me?
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Hypothetical #1
Let’s say that you own a company, but that you’re on the road on business a lot. You’re in your office maybe 1 or 2 days a week, tops. Because of this, you have basically no hands-on idea how the day-to-day operations of the business work. Your business produces a commodity on a weekly basis, with hard deadlines to get that product out the door. Despite the fact that...
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Hillary Wins Kentucky! Break Out The Moonshine! →
That’s right, guys and dolls, Hillary won the great state of Kentucky by a landslide. Screw the math, THIS IS NOT OVER YET! The pundits and fact-checkers and that guy who plays with the big…
New Hold Steady - "Sequestered In Memphis" -... →
YAY!
Free Image Hosting And Flash Tools - Toufee →
I want to buy this kid a drink. It doesn’t even have to be alcohol, he can have a Jamba Juice if he wants.
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A forboding sense of things yet to come. →
In the news today, Extinct Tiger Brought Back to Life.
In the news for tomorrow, Extinct Tiger Devours All Human Life.
Just you wait. It’s gonna happen.
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Psycho Christians and the media | Salon →
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Parsley and Hagee scare me much more than Wright ever did, because I think that, when it gets down to it, Wright is a decent human being governed by logic and thoughtfulness, and they are not. Hagee’s a loon and Parsley’s a nutcase and they spend every Sunday preaching to the choir, only that choir happens to be millions of our fellow Americans....
Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes →
For anyone who has ever worked in customer service…enjoy…
Obama Rocks 75,000 Portlanders →
I really don’t like The Decemberists that much. At all. I certainly don’t like them well enough to wait in line for nearly three hours just to see them. But, here I am, in the middle of a…
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Barack Obama on the Issues →
Read up, everyone. Pretty sure you can search for everyone on there, so check your own representatives and John McCain as well, while you’re at it.
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A Tribute To The Longest Blog Post Ever Written. →
I know what you’re thinking. You’ve been wondering where I’ve been, counting down the days since last I wrote a blog. What’s it been, like two or three months? Something like that. Anyway, I…
Seniors suspended over T-shirts →
On a mildly related note, when I was in high school, I was in a “band” called .10, which was the legal limit in Minnesota at the time. There are no new ideas, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not funny.