Monthly Archives: October 2006

Six more random links o’ interest

Dennis Leary and Lenny Clarke’s hilarious guest-broadcasting at the Red Sox game. Lots of great ethnic humor, and see how far Mel Gibson’s stock has fallen. Watch a woman being animated from the inside out (I reccomend the 4x button) … Continue reading

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Remember Pat Tillman?

This essay was written by his brother. Very angry and touching at the same time.

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Guess what’s going to swing the election

Charles Murray (the man who helped to bring you The Bell Curve and similar discredited attempts at science) brings you some more foolishness today in The New York Times editorial page. His column regards the recent law that tries to … Continue reading

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Just make it stop

Today is October 15th. Tonight, while having dinner at a restaurant, they played Christmas music. On October 15th. To make it worse, we were eating at a Chinese buffet! Somehow I don’t think the owners religious beliefs were influencing the … Continue reading

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Do garbagemen get the day off?

Whenever there is a holiday, there is no garbage pickup. But we never actually miss a day. One of our pickup days is Tuesday (yes, one of our pickup days. I like DeKalb county). If the holiday is Monday, pickup … Continue reading

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Sickening

Just read it. Note that guilt and innocence is irrelevant here. We got rid of habeus corpus, so there’s no reason to bother finding out.

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A bunch of good links

An amazing classical piano improv, from a 14-year old. Goldie Hawn picks out 5 notes, she plays a beautiful and complex piece based on it. (Go to timepoint 16:40) (This was referenced from a Freakonomics post.) Patriots Test Great artwork … Continue reading

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Voting Suppression

For those who don’t know, the GOP has been gunning for some time to require photo IDs and create other barriers to voting. In a previous post, I came out for photo ID. Now, I’m not so sure. There are … Continue reading

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