July 2010
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Soccer Team Has Perfected The Art Of The Goal... →
This makes my impending October trip to Iceland so much more exciting…
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ESPN Officially Kills Lebron James Vegas Story,... →
Just another cross-post from my FourthandBlog site.
ESPN is losing credibility as an objective news source by the day. Sure, they’ve been bleeding credibility for most of the last decade, but now it’s a full-on hemorrhage, for crying out loud. They might as well just put LeBron on the payroll and hire Maverick Carter to do all of their publicity, because that’s essentially what “The Decision”...
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Towering northwest forests stand out in global map... →
That’s right, world, the Pacific Northwest has wood. Do what you will with that information.
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Court Upholds Expulsion of Counseling Student Who... →
After she’s done being a pariah, maybe she’ll get over herself, realize that we’re all just people trying to make our way through the world, and stop being prejudiced against homosexuals.
You can disagree with people’s sexuality, whether you see it as a life-choice or as just something that people are, and still be decent to them as one person to another. Especially when...
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Fixing Football
In the wake of the spectacle that is the World Cup, new revelations about brain injuries from concussions, the revelation that over the course of a 3-hour game, only 11 minutes of actual action take place and studies that show that some helmets are, at best, inadequate, American football could use a little facelift.
Players are bigger, stronger and faster than they have ever been. Concussions are...
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Patriot Guard Riders - Wikipedia, the free... →
At a time when it’s hard to find things to make me proud to be an American, these guys give me hope. This is what America really is- honest, respectable, decent and honorable people who care for their fellow man, regardless of background, belief or politics.
I’m not going to call them “heroes” or “patriots”, but I will call them good Americans. We should all...
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“I think there are a lot more Americans who think he is socialist than there are...”
– BP’s tree fell on my lawn - Roger Ebert’s Journal
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Morning Downtown
Your streets, cobbled and rhythmic fit my instep, break my fall the nothing taste of a day-old pastry smacks against my tongue rough and joyless molten coffee in a paper cup warms my hand, stings the nostrils your tower stand on my shoulders dusty drumbeats, pounding heart vacant stares fingering broken guitars buses pass, scurrying cars yours are right angle, slowly crumbling and obtuse edifices,...
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Discharged Dan Choi To Harry Reid: 'It's Not About... →
*slow clap*
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Faith healing in Oregon: A picture worth a... →
Not only should these people have their daughter taken away from them, but if they don’t see the error of their thinking and “faith”, they should be barred from having children, period.
That’s an extreme step to take, I know, but babies like this can’t ask for help, can’t care for themselves, and if the parents are going to be so willfully ignorant and...
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Akinator, the Web Genius →
Creepy…
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“Bill Murray is a fatal disease and the sad news we bring you today is that your...”
– Boycott Bill Murray for a Better America | ChristWire
Uhhh, what if I like being “infected?” Bill Murray is awesome.
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Prison for Women Tirgsor | punctum.ro →
Inmates in a Romanian women’s prison were given cameras and shown basic functions, these are the best pictures that they took. Some pretty fascinating stuff.
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Notice to Regular Readers
As some of you may have noticed, I’m a bit excited about the advancing college football season (just 43 more days, not that I’m counting or anything). In the past, I’ve used my sports blog, FourthAndBlog, as my main repository for all things college football and sports related. There will be some cross-posts coming up in the next few months. Some will be intentional, some will...
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Sources: Alabama's Marcel Dareus under scrutiny -... →
Y’know, I have never liked Nick Saban, but he really does have a point there. If the NFL is going to allow agents on college campuses, and those agents cause ineligibility, they should be kicked off campus and suspended. The players themselves should be punished to a degree, as well, but the agents know the rules better than the college players do, so they should face the brunt of the...
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Right Around the Corner: Naternet College Football...
We’re closing in on my favorite time of the year- college football season. The fact that it happens to coincide with my favorite season- fall, makes it a glorious world of bemusement and wonder for me. Every September, I know that I can look forward to the crisp autumn air and the spectacle and pageantry of college football. It’s like my Christmas, Halloween, Easter and Birthday all...
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Conan O’Brien’s Love/Hate Relationship with the... →
Really interesting. I wish that I could have been there, or that the organizers would have allowed some sort of recording…
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I Write Like
So, there’s this website, I Write Like, that supposedly can analyze samples of your writing and tell you what famous author/writer that you most resemble, style and structure-wise. I’m curious, so I tossed four random samples of my bloggery and one short story into their little do-hickey and this is what came out:
Sample 1 - David Foster Wallace
Sample 2 - Margaret Atwood
Sample 3 -...
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