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• So 80s

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  Be afwaid. AP:A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified.
  
  Four calves were found dead in a pasture just north of the New Mexico state line in recent weeks. The dead calves had their skins peeled back and organs [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:06am EST
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• Just a pic . . .

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  Of Smelly Slob at the Pa-in-Law's today.
  
  
  He had fowl, he had potatoes, he had green bean casserole, he had pie (apple), and he had Frisbee.
  
  First pic with the 70-300 lens the enigmatically generous "Mr. B" gave me, free, gratis, and, uh, [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 7:20pm EST
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• Thought for Tomorrow

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  Today!

  About three-quarters of all adult Indians suffer alcoholism and/or other forms of substance abuse. This is not a ‘genetic condition.’ It is a desperate, collective attempt to escape our horrible reality since ‘America’s Triumph.’ It’s no mystery why Indians don’t observe Thanksgiving. The real question is why do you feast [...]

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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:33pm EST
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• Record?

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  Huffpo's piece on Sarah Palin being booed by disappointed autograph seekers in Indiana has amassed almost 15,000 comments. You have to look at the front-page right sidebar for that number, but there are 285 pages of them (mostly supportive of Palin, natch). I'll leave it to others to' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 1:50pm EST
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• Climategate?

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  Andrew Bolt has it: Hackers have broken into the data base of the Hadley GRU unit - one of the world’s leading [climate] alarmist centres - and put the files they stole on the Internet, on the grounds that the science is too important to be kept under wraps.
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:47am EST
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• Wart speaks for Mutula Shakur!

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  In Denver November 28. "'Til It Breaks--Denver Anarchist News": Presented by Denver and Aurora CopWatch, Sisters of Color United for Education, and Denver ABCF
  
  when: Saturday, November 28th. 7:30-12ishWart's found another murderer to defend! Four-and-a-half hours worth.

  where: Sisters of Color 2895 8th Ave, Denver, CO (8th and [...]

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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:30pm EST
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• You all watching

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  WWIIinHD on the History Channel? Wow. And told, amazingly, in a pro-American style. And IN COLOR! (Mostly.)
  
  Actually I hate the History Channel, but this is something else. My first dose of color WWII footage--the theatrical release of famed H-wood director George Stevens' footage, "D-Day to Berlin"--was back' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:39pm EST
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• Serial liar to appear in Denver for PeaceJam!

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  And it's not Ward Churchill! No, it's Rigoberta Menchu Tum, the Nobel Peace Prize winner for her book about growing up in war-torn Guatemala, I, Rigoberto Menchu, which was shown to contain many fabrications, but is still taught in the kind of college courses we all know and love. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:53pm EST
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• Drone

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  JWP links to bad video of Wart's appearance in Arizona last week. Again, I cannot understand why anyone has ever referred to him as a "firebrand," etc. He's a disorganized liar and a bore, and tells the same shit over and over. Hey Wart, when did Germany attack [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:03pm EST
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• Mmmmmm . . .

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  TimesOnline: The Frankenfood that improves you
  
  The future of food includes baby purée to improve brain
  power . . .
  Sorry, that's all I read. [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:44pm EST
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• Jail-time for another Wart-pal

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  The fat fake Indian is the kiss of death to his fellow rads. The (NY) Post: A federal appeals court today ordered a convicted terror-coddling civil rights lawyer to begin serving her prison sentence.
  
  The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld Lynne Stewart's conviction upon announcing' [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:05pm EST
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• Hyper-something, anyway

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  Ran across this rather OCD-ish list of 100-odd tips for "hypermiling" and was surprised at how many of them I instinctively followed. My faves: 6) Join a fuel economy forum
  
  Join an outstanding forum to learn ways to increase your fuel economy by talking to others who [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 2:50pm EST
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• Balloon head gets plea bargain for Balloon Boy parents

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  Yes, BB's parents pled guilty, Dad to a felony. Another win for Clarence Darrowish Wart-lawyer David Lane, who said an incredibly stupid thing after the plea:After the hearing, Richard Heene's attorney David Lane said that the seriousness of the charges reflects the anger Americans felt after learning they had [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:08pm EST
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• Not yet, anyway

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  The alluring Chuck Plunkett in a Post blog:Tomorrow we’ll weigh-in with an editorial on coming Congressional hearings regarding Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
  
  It’s made me interested in considering what we might learn from the hearings in terms of our nation’s laudable obsession with diversity.Laudable obsession.Though I’m a big [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 6:59pm EST
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• Did anybody else around here see

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  Fox NFL Sunday from Afghanistan today? Brilliant. Corny. All-American. Sweeps. I don't know if they advertised that the crew would be there, but I don't think so.
  
  Said it before, but these young(ish) folks in our military today are unbelievably smart, handsome (both men and women) and honorable.
  
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 7:06pm EST
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• Bullies

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  In comments some posts down the subject of bullies came up, and it's come up again (at least from me) in relation to the filthy assholes around Wart. So, I want to hear readers' stories about their childhood (or adult) confrontations with bullies.
  
  Several of us in that down-post [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 4:27pm EST
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• "I'd defend Osama, I'd defend Hitler . . ."

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  Wart-lawyer David Lane just now on C & S about whether Ft. Hood terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan should face the death penalty.
  
  He's agin it. I'll post the audio when it shows up.
  
  Update, a long time after: What bugs me is not that Lane would defend Hitler, [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:30pm EST
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• Give the devil his due

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  Front-page profile of Wart-lawyer David Lane in the Post today. Fave quote: One thing that hasn't changed is the way Lane has been attacked for representing Churchill. Like the day he sat with a client, in prison for second-degree murder and facing a first-degree murder charge for a slaying' [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:11am EST
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• Halloween stories from JWP!

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  Actually they're just horror stories; nothing particularly to do with Halloween. But the pirate with the zombie parrot ("Braiiinnnnns, matey") links to several short-shorts he wrote for various pubs in the 90s. NSFK (Not Safe For Kiddies).
  
  Can't decide my fave between the pitiful descent of the Norse [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 2:30pm EDT
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• A laptop? A tire iron?

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  More on the Beason, Illinois murder of a family of five. Caution, morons ahead:A Beason family found slain in their home Sept. 21 may have died during an armed robbery in which a laptop computer was taken by two Armington brothers -- one of them a former son-in-law of [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 6:28pm EDT
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• "A creature living in the thrashing endgame of civilization"

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  One can only hope. A new doco in the works starring that pussy terrorist we've grown to know and love, Derrick ("gee, if only I knew how to make bombs") Jensen, with supporting roles by fellow zero-summers (not to be confused with Suzanne Sommers), hypocrites, crypto-ecofascists and' [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 8:21pm EDT
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• Let's ride!

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  Over a foot in my (red)neck of the woods so far. I love it. Supposed to keep up through tomorrow, but I doubt it.
  
  Update: Oh, I'm going x-country somewhere tomorrow over lunchtime.
  
  Update II: Just finished shoveling. I hate it. [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 5:46pm EDT
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• Inevitable

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  Wart is quoted, approvingly, on a Holocaust-denial site, "The Rebel": "The 'Holocaust' is a typical zionist myth": Incidentally, while there is a Holocaust Memorial Museum in the US for the presumed “six million gassed" Jews by Nazi Germany, there are nowhere in the US any holocaust memorial museums, reparations," [...]
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  Posted: October 24, 2009, 7:32pm EDT
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• Girls these days

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  Working over at the college girls' apartment today (there are still issues, goddamnit), and I suddenly noticed several things. First, that for some reason they always want to hang around and talk while I'm working.
  
  Second, that I have repeatedly, and, till today, entirely unconsciously, called both of them [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
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• For some reason

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  I feel the need to post Alec Baldwin's turn in Glengarry Glen Ross. Can't imagine why:
  
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  Posted: October 21, 2009, 11:41pm EDT
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• Separated at birth!

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  Balloon Dad . . .
  
  
  
  And Captain Pike:
  
  
  
  Sorry. Captain Pike:
  
  
  
  Oh, and by the way. Post (from whence the top photo): "Balloon family to face charges". What, [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 7:32pm EDT
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• Couldn't stand it any more

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  So here's Paul Revere and the Raiders (post-uniforms) with (an obviously lip- and instrument-faked) Cherokee Nation (or whatever they call it):
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2009, 5:52pm EDT
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• Premature balloonist

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  The Post: Rescuers and paramedics are with a "homemade flying saucer" that just came down, but the fate of a 6-year-old who was on board is unknown.
  
  Rescuers on the ground told their dispatcher the boy was not inside.
  
  Officials and the boy's family had said he' [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 1:38pm EDT
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• CU asks for $50,000 in legal expenses from Wart

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  So they went high-end. Gamera: The University of Colorado is seeking to recover more than $52,000 from Ward Churchill to recover costs the school incurred fighting a lawsuit filed by the former ethnic studies
  professor. . . .
  
  Colorado law requires the court to award the "prevailing party," [...]
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  Posted: October 14, 2009, 2:04pm EDT
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• Wouldn't you?

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  Post: "Colorado insurer changes course on fat infants"
  
  Too late.
  
  And yes, I know it's saying they'll welcome bloated chirrens. I go for the joke, funny or not.
  
  Update: Anybody think that Titanic was better than A Night to Remember? One won eleven Oscars. God. [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2009, 7:13pm EDT
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• One down`

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  The best time for sports in America: Fall. Which, of course, is not really happening in America this year. We went straight from summer to winter.
  
  Whatever. Broncos win in OT. They're 5-0. We'll see. Rockies Baseball Club up next in the playoofs.. It's 33 degrees; by gametime,' [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 6:19pm EDT
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• Not bad

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  Headline on Comcast right now: "Pope elevates five new saints." Like I say, not bad, but not as good as this guy. [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2009, 2:43pm EDT
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• It's 19 degrees

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  In Denver, according to the Post. The wind is howling. Or maybe just whistling insouciantly. But it's cold. Summer ended just three weeks ago, experts say. And this summer was the coolest (temp-wise) I've seen in the quarter-century I've lived out here. Loveland ski area opened earlier than it' [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 11:26pm EDT
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• Not my doggy!

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  Oh, my God. The most over-the-top global-wanking ad ever:
  
  
  
  Copenhagen cometh!
  
  (via WattsUpWithThat) [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 6:57pm EDT
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• Wart, Kindle, polar bears

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  Sherman Alexie, flogging a new book of short stories, opines on Warty in Mother Jones: The tribes he claims he belongs to don't even claim him. Let's put it this way: You guys are all way behind in terms of what you know about his identity and his politics. [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 11:12am EDT
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• Two words

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  Rigoberto Menchú. You can have your Carters and Gores, I'm sticking by Rigo (as her friends call her) as the worst Nobel Prize winner.' [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:45am EDT
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• Threat

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  Commenter "Eddie" in the Wart post a couple-three below notes this on the American Indian Movement (CO) website:
  

  Advisory for October 10 - Columbus Hate Speech Parade:

  Colorado AIM advises all Native elders and children to avoid downtown Denver, especially the area near the Columbus Hate Speech Parade, on Saturday, [...]

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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 7:21pm EDT
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• We are not murderous hillbillies!

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  Us Central Illinoisans. Mainly because there are no hills. Hyuck. Pantagraph:
  Jason Harris of Armington was charged today with five counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in the Gee family slayings last month in Beason.
  
  The charges are identical to the ones filed Oct. 2 [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2009, 6:51pm EDT
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• Dignity, always dignity

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  WattsUpWithThat on the draft of the Copenhagen Climate-crap Treaty. Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, indeed. [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 10:49pm EDT
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• Charley Arthur

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  That is, Ward Churchill. [...]
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  Posted: October 06, 2009, 10:22pm EDT
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• "Got a Match?"

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  Sent to me by friend Bubba, one guy playing all the parts of the Chick Corea Electric Band tune (not at the same time, natch):
  
  
  What do you think he's best/weakest at, instrumentally?
  
  And, as I told Bubba, I could do it, I just don't wanna.[...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 6:16pm EDT
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• Rockies v. Dodgers

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  Not sayin' nothing, to avoid the jinx. I'll let the Post say it.
  
  Okay, one thing: This has been the greatest comeback, over a season, ever. Whatever happens, Jim Tracy will be Manager of the Year, hands down. Or even up.
  
  Update: Jinx!
  
  Update II: [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 6:09pm EDT
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• $2.14

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  That's the price of a galleon of gas at the nearby Safeway. Across the street at the 7-11, it's $2.23. Everyplace else I noticed today was in the 7-11 range--around $2.23. Don't know what's going on--hell, maybe the Safeway VP in charge of changing the digital sign was drunk [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 4:50pm EDT
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• Arrest!

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  Thank goodness. I was beginning to lose hope that they'd get someone in the Beason slaughter. But they did. The Pantagraph: Ex-husband charged with first-degree murder: A 30-year-old man was charged Friday with five counts of first-degree murder in what police have described as the brutal slayings of' [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 4:34pm EDT
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• MUCK!

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  One thing you got to say for the rad-left: they're good at acronyms.
  
  Well, maybe "good" isn't the word I'm looking for. "Stretching"? "Ridiculous"? Maybe "laughable." Rabble.ca:The M.U.C.K. (Movies of Un-Common Knowledge) Film Festival and Forum gets started today in Toronto. The opening gala is a screening of' [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2009, 6:23pm EDT
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• Prez voting history

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  What's yours? Here's mine:
  
  1976 (first year I was eligible): Carter (not actually sure I voted, though). In any case, I remember sitting in my car drinking beer at Hubley Bridge near Mason City at daylight the day after the election, and thinking, "A New Day Has Dawned."
  
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  Posted: September 29, 2009, 7:16pm EDT
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• Conflicted thimking

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  A remarkably clueless LTTE in Indian Country Today by one Craig Fontaine: As a high school teacher and a collector of oral history for my tribe, I find it troubling that professor Michael Yellow Bird of The University of Kansas would jeopardize the validity of oral history in his [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 4:43pm EDT
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• My brother

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  Our old friend Shareef Aleem called in to the Crapless and Silverfish (h/t serious writer Benjie) show just now, defending terror suspect Najibullah Zazi as innocent until proven guilty (fine, fine) and calling him "Brother" as Muslims are wont to do. Again, fine, fine, though neither C nor [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2009, 2:24pm EDT
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• Small towns are murder

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  Front page at CNN.com right now: Five found killed in Illinois home: Five members of a family were found slain in their Beason, Illinois, home, authorities said Tuesday, and they urged people in the area to be cautious until the killer is found.
  
  "This was a brutal homicide" [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 6:32pm EDT
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• Snow in mountains, foothills; maybe even Denver tonight

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  Didn't summer end just yesterday? The heat is on here at the D-blog manse, people are wearing winter coats, and it looks like November out (except all the trees still have green leaves). The high was 48 degrees.
  
  We know what to blame.
  
  What else is going' [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 4:55pm EDT
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