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God Bless Ann Coulter

When you see Ann Coulter in an interview, you can tell from the vacant, yet feral look in her eyes that she’s trying desperately to think of the most outrageous thing possible to say. She’s a two year-old who’s desperate for attention and she loves it – loves it loves it LOVES IT – when Daddy spanks her. Never mind

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Rewriting the canon of rock

I’m not posing this for the express purpose of vexing sirpaulsbuddy, although I feel certain it will have that effect. No, I think this is a real question, and over the last couple of years it has struck me as one that’s increasingly valid. Conventional wisdom has always been that The Beatles were the greatest band in history. The reasons

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Idiot fatigue

I haven’t been posting much lately. I go through periods where I blog a lot and then I hit downtime. But with so much going on, I got to wondering why I haven’t had much to say. A recent chat with drdenny provided a clue. It really hit me yesterday, when I saw that Bush is framing Britain’s decision to

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Religious freedom at the airport?

So, how far backwards do we really have to bend to accommodate “religious freedoms”? If that looks like an attempt to provoke, well…keep reading. If you drink, some cabbies won’t drive By Keith Oppenheim CNN … About three quarters of the 900 cabbies serving the [Minneapolis] airport are Muslim, and many have been regularly refusing passengers carrying beer, wine or

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Another bust in the pantheon

Unfortunately, I had Good Morning America on this morning (until the Dish Network guys come and hook us up in the new place tomorrow I have a couple network feeds and that’s it). They come out of a break to the strains of Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind,” which used to be one of rock’s truly great songs. Then

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Ground control to Major Malfunction

Ummm, this is just bizarre, even by wacky astronaut standards: Feb. 6, 2007, 11:18AM Astronaut charged with murder attempt By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press Writer © 2007 The Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — A jail official says a NASA astronaut is being charged with attempted first-degree murder in alleged kidnapping attempt involving a romantic rival. Lisa Marie Nowak was charged

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Even better than the real thing

Item 1: While waiting for a table at a restaurant this morning, my wife, sister-in-law and brother-in-law were looking at a series of photographs by Sue Norris, whom I know little about. Nice work, though – very pretty landscapes. We were noting the vividness of the colors and I made an offhand comment about how they’d certainly been Photoshopped. We

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