Entries from December 2006

Warning: Plot spoilers to Tim Green’s Exact Revenge follow; also for A Separate Peace, The Empire Strikes Back, and The [...]

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Seen at a local mall:

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I’ve never liked people who either praise or bash everything the President does simply because they love or hate many [...]

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I received the following letter from a Mrs. Helen Hicks in response to my recent USA Today column about cell [...]

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Seriously. It’s apparently one of those little tidbits that was overshadowed by the Nixon pardon and Chevy Chase pratfalls. Via [...]

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… when your shipping options look like this: (Click to enlarge.)

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Your bang-your-head-on-the-wall quote of the day: Citing state data, the (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail reports that 28 kindergarten students in Maryland were [...]

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Oh-oh. It’s “Roundup-Ready” marijuana. Now, if someone could isolate the gene that lets the marijuana plant produce THC and splice [...]

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This is funny. An AP reporter in Iraq, Qais Al-Bashir, wrote a story about Shiites burning Sunnis alive. Conservative bloggers, [...]

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Just ordered from the folks at Zazzle.com. You either get it or you don’t. :)

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Not too long ago, I opined that despite (or because of) the Internet, newspapers are far from dead. In fact, [...]

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The story: A Kentucky high school is rife with Confederate symbols. [Link updated 2/26/2007 to one that works.] The quote: [...]

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From the Consumer Product Safety Commission: GAMO USA Corp. Recalls Air Rifles That Can Unexpectedly Fire.

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The following is true. If you hear this story someday and think it’s an urban legend, drop me a note [...]

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2 Kings 2:23-24: 23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths [...]

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Apparently it’s against Associated Press style to use the following contractions — contractions that I bet many of us use [...]

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A friend of mine sent me a link to a page in Classmates.com. To access it, I needed to sign [...]

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If you pass gas while on a plane, lighting a match to conceal the odor is a bad idea. People [...]

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…at least, according to Amazon, by way of Eric Berlin.

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