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Is it just me?

Natalee Holloway’s mother, Beth Twitty, is on GMA right now. Let me say that yes it’s a tragedy, yes it’s horrible that this girl has disappeared, etc., and I can certainly imagine how nuts I’d be if it were my daughter. But: anybody besides me getting sick of this damned woman and the fact that every TV outlet in the

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Shouldn’t businesspeople, you know, know something about business?

drdenny questions the business savvy of newspaper industry execs, and if anything, is kinder than he needs to be. I posted a comment in his entry, but wanted to drag those remarks out to the top here. _____________ Right. They don’t understand journalism. Audiences. Nada. But, as you suggest, they also don’t understand some basics of business. This is like

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A brief note on the One True Barbecue

Damn Downeasters. Might as well have been born without tongues for all they know about barbecue. Thank God it’s America, where taste-challenged mopes like them have the inalienable right to eat like whatever kind of trash animal they want. God bless Lexington. God bless Pig Pickin’s in Winston-Salem. And may God have mercy on the rest of you. Good night.

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Return of the Daily Brushback: Vatican set to ban gay men joining priesthood

Today’s question, along with some special bonus gratuitous follow-on rantings, are directed to Pope Palpatine Benedict XVI. LP: Your Holiness, according to a new report, “homosexuals, even those who are celibate, will be barred from becoming Roman Catholic priests under stricter rules soon to be released.” Our question is this: under these new guidelines, where will the Church find new

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Excerpt from an e-mail…

Just traded some correspondence with my buddy O-Ring. Subject of my sitch came up. Here’s part of what I said: We’re plowing ahead here. My head has done a full 540 in the last year, and I now find myself sort of actively revolting against so much I thought was part of my encoding. When you think you know who

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Which is worse?

Packing to move or unpacking on the other end? For the last few weeks it was the packing. But the movers came yesterday and disgorged the material trappings of our consumerist existence into our new rent-a-place. So today the unpacking is worse, I guess. Context is everything. One of our couches won’t fit into the house. Okay, I take that

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Gulf Opportunity Zone

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 16, 2005 (ENS) – To help storm victims recover from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, President George W. Bush Thursday night proposed the creation of a Gulf Opportunity Zone, encompassing the region of the disaster in Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama. In addition, Bush proposed a lottery to distribute cost-free building lots to families from federal

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