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Right now at CNN.com the top story is – duh – terrischiavo: ‘This was for Terri,’ husband’s lawyer says In the rest of the news box on the first screen, in order: President: Millions feel Schiavo’s passing Schiavo video released just before her death CNN/Money: Wolfowitz elected World Bank President Report: Iraq intelligence ‘simply wrong’ Prince Albert takes over Monaco

You know, it’s bad enough that you play for the worst team in baseball. At least you could show some manners, huh? Story…

terrischiavo is dead. (CNN story.) I hope she died peacefully, whenever it was all those years ago that she actually died, and I’m sure I echo the sentiments of millions when I say that we profoundly regret the way in which her name came to symbolize the very worst aspects of our culture. From what we’ve read she was a

[Credit: Thanks to tempter on for bringing this to our attention.] This is just hysterical, and the responders landing on the guy for what he did are amoral morons. Verily, cheating doesn’t pay, huh? (Updates.)

I was already somewhat bummed that, thanks to a variety of financial difficulties at the school here (for the moment I’ll stay clear of the various arguments as to who might be to blame for said shortfalls) the faculty was only looking at what’s being termed a 2% “pay raise.” The question of applying the term “raise” to an amount

Good take from a man in a position to know whereof he speaks…. It won’t be a good day when high school entrepreneurs have to get a fairness opinion from a technology oriented law firm to confirm that big music or movie studios won’t sue you because they can come up with an angle that makes a judge believe the

Ruh-roh. That rhythmic pounding sound you hear is the PR folks at Boy Scouts of America banging their heads on a table and wishing they worked somewhere else today. Boy Scout official charged in child porn case Tuesday, March 29, 2005 Posted: 2:44 PM EST (1944 GMT) DALLAS, Texas (CNN) — A former top official of the Boy Scouts of

Remember the candles that smell like Jesus? Yeah, well, the happy news folks at Good Morning America had some on today and were chatting them up the same way they might a cute new line of poodle sweaters. Now, I get it – this is some funny, frivolous stuff that’s good for lighthearted entertainment (if you have a brain, anyway

Are these people completely stupid? One of the purposes of TiVo is ad-avoidance. Greed kills…..

Veni. Vedi. Blogi. San Diego was great. Good to see fikshun and catwhite. Awesome to see John Lawrence of myths_americana given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the ACA – hard to imagine a more deserving recipient. Now we’re off home. Flight departs at 11:25 am PST, and it will be a miracle if I get to the house before 1

Jim Booth over at The Savoy Truffle (sirpaulsbuddy, that is) walks us through the Republic at the present time. I’m looking at the Preamble…and I’m not seeing anything there that suggests that taking from the poor and giving to the rich is providing for the common defense, promoting the general welfare, establishing justice, insuring domestic tranquility, securing the blessings of

Jimmy listened as the distinguished professor, wisdom silver as her hair, explained how no human has ever seen his/her own back with his/her own eyes. Later, Jimmy was found oddly twisted near a mirror neck broken as a heart.

[Thanks to beast_o_bourbon for passing this on.] American Nation Brainwashed by John Dear … We have become a culture of Pharisees. Instead of practicing an authentic spirituality of compassion, nonviolence, love and peace, we as a collective people have become self-righteous, arrogant, powerful, murderous hypocrites who dominate and kill others in the name of God. The Pharisees supported the brutal

You’ll want to review this when you get a minute.

[Credit: Thanks to Cody Barstow of Mojo City News for the link.] Fla. officials’ attempt, fail to seize Schiavo Fri Mar 25, 9:32 PM ET MIAMI – Hours after a judge ordered that Terri Schiavo wasn’t to be removed from her hospice, a team of Florida law enforcement agents were en route to seize her and have her feeding tube