Monthly Archives: August 2005

Gotta love those Czechs

I don’t like linking to Instapundit carried stories, because, well, everybody already reads them. But I just needed to comment. The two Vaclavs have to be my favorite politicians because of their open critisisms of soft socialism, “old” Europe and … Continue reading

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The big picture

Sorabji.com‘s Mark Thomas wanders around NYC snapping interesting (to me, anyway) photographs, and posts them here. I’ve been enjoying these for years, and just thought I’d share. He’s also got interesting old photos picked up at flea markets and garage … Continue reading

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Slick World Order

David Corn writes: As I’ve written about (or, obsessed about) before, Clinton visited Rwanda in 1998 and issued something of an apology. Speaking of those terrible months in the spring of 1994, he said, “All over the world there were … Continue reading

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C’mon people – the underwear goes on FIRST

Paul Pope is slated to deliver BATMAN: YEAR 100, a libertarian-themed re-imagining of Batman in a dystopian 2039. I hate to slag on PP, but regardless of his assurances to the contrary, I’m pretty sure I read this already (don’t … Continue reading

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Housing boom

So, my tennant has moved …halfway… out. (Objects near mirror are larger than they appear – he’s pretty big) I guess this is the downside of not driving much. And of course, since he’s built a new wing on his … Continue reading

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Still taking his ‘medication’, apparently

NME reports: SPIRITUALIZED mainman JASON PIERCE is recovering after an illness left him close to death. The star, who recently completed work on the band’s new album, is now at home after spending a lengthy time in intensive care for … Continue reading

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Horvath vs Robertson

A while back, Mark wrote: Christianity is a Religion of Love (refrain) Christianity is a Religion of Love repeat until exhaustion. OTOH, Robertson urges U.S. to kill Chavez … Those wacky Christians. When dialouge doesn’t work, lets just murder our … Continue reading

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Why — does this happen often?

Am I the only one vaguely disturbed by the fact that North Carolina at some point felt it necessary to enact the specific crime of “malicious castration”? http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/local_state/local_article.aspx?storyid=47432

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Modern Living

As someone who is a complete slob I always blame having too much room to dump crap rather than put it away. Could this be the perfect concept for living? Or this?

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Hmmmmm….

I think its great that Europe and Russia are going to jointly develope a space shuttle. However, is it just me, or does it seem that they are going to redevelop expensive, and outmoded technology used by NASA since 1981? … Continue reading

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Flashback…..

Despite Cindy Sheehan leaving Crawford, lots of people are still hanging around- in places like the “Peace House“- protesting. I watched news report after news report, video after video of the protests, and was………freaked out. Why you ask? Was it … Continue reading

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You are here- revised

Space.com reports that in fact our galaxy is a barred spiral shape, not a spiral. Geek t-shirt manufacturers are pulling all those “You are here” t-shirts off the shelf as we speak.

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Old school…..

Mark Steyn has reviewed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The best part is when he talks about Christopher Lee: My favourite moment in the Lord of the Rings movies isn’t actually in any of the movies, but in one of … Continue reading

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A cunning plan

I’ve got it! Bush’s endorsement of teaching “intelligent” design in schools is really a clever, subtle plan to deeply entrench school vouchers by making the Left want vouchers as well. Or maybe it’s even more subtle — to eliminate the … Continue reading

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If you’ve ever had the misfortune to read James Fenimore Cooper…

…succor yourself with this.

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