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This is great news for the Nuggets, I think. I’ve literally been waiting for Denver to start talking to Karl since about this time last year. I’m not sure he’s the guy who can get them to the mountaintop, but I do think that within three years he can get them pretty close. We’ll see – I’m also expecting a

Well, there you have it. I’m a Ravenclaw!

See, I don’t know what these two morons were thinking. Last words: “Hey, Bubba, why don’t we go see can we find some heat-packin’, snuff-dippin’ white trash to rob?” When two men walked into a popular country store outside Atlanta, announced a holdup and fired a shot, owners Bobby and Gloria Doster never hesitated. The pair pulled out their own

After that last uncalled for little snark, it occurred to me to wonder what Ben Fong-Torres had to say about his portrayal in Almost Famous (something I have meant to investigate ever since I saw the movie, but never got around to). I mean, he came off looking like a king-sized cut of USDA Prime putz, so it made me

About Rolling Stone’s refusal to run that Bible ad – I spoke too soon. Thanks to karlchristian for pointing me at the, ummm, clarification? “We have addressed the internal miscommunications that led to the previous misstatement of company policy and apologize for any confusion it may have caused,” Lisa Dallos, spokeswoman for Wenner Media, Rolling Stone’s parent company, said Monday.

There is much to hate about Bill Gates, and I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve been a Gates hata for years. But there’s also much to admire in the man, and his commitment to global health issues – $7B donated in the last ten years or so – ranks right at the top of the list. His business

1. Hmmm. Let’s see. Guard the perimeter. Pound it inside to the big guy that nobody on the other team can stop. Don’t feel a need to force three-pointers. Result: Wake Forest 74, Cincinnati 70. 2. On a side note, how ’bout that Wake non-conference schedule? It’s not enough that playing the basic ACC schedule this season would automatically give

I’ve said it repeatedly – radical Muslim fundamentalists and the American Right agree on more than they realize. Truth be told, they agree on a lot more than they disagree on. Take today’s CNN item, which begins predictably enough: An Internet recording claiming to be from wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi condemned democracy as “the big American lie” on Sunday

I have long argued that organized Christianity is a whole lot more about Peter and Paul than it is Jesus (a point that somebody like Doestoevsky would no agree with me on) – to the point where I sometimes call it “Paulianity.” But I’m not sure I’d go as far as these folks. And at this stage I have neither

Yeah, what beast_o_bourbon said.

If anybody knows the source of this version, let me know. I want to give them credit…. ___________________________ Cows Explain Government DEMOCRAT You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. Barbara Streisand sings for you. REPUBLICAN You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So? SOCIALIST You have two cows. The government takes one

Top-ranked team coming off a big emotional win against arch-rival? Check. Talented but inconsistent team jacked up and laying in the weeds? Check. Road trip to one of the toughest places to play in the league? Check. All systems are go. Initiate upset countdown. 1. I’ll start with what was positive about the Wake trip to Tallahassee. First, Chris Paul

Well, what do you know. There is something Jann Wenner won’t do for money.

From today’s NewsScan: TEEN SUED BY APPLE GETS FREE HELP FROM LAWYER San Francisco lawyer Terry Gross, a specialist in freedom of speech and the Internet, will defend 19-year-old Nicholas Ciarelli against a lawsuit brought by Apple charging the Harvard freshman and Web publisher revealing Apple trade secrets on his Web site, http://www.ThinkSecret.com. Gross, whose services will be given on

Damn, this myths_americana entry on a new real-time Iraq-based video game is almost too much to contemplate – especially when you start thinking abou the Iraqi take. Imagine that a foreign army was in your city effecting regime change and they had destroyed your house and killed your family, then this turned up. Yeesh.