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  • Hold me

    —The Drunkablog

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    Delingpole on the "litigation hold" on climate data issued by the DOE:God bless America and – can I really be saying this? – God bless the legal profession! Despite the best efforts of the Obama administration, most of the world’s other governments (save the plucky Canucks), the United Nations [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2009, 5:08pm EST
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  • Hi-Blairity

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    Blair:Climate talks in Copenhagen still have several days to run, but I’m calling it early.

    Australia wins. No other nation can possibly match the level of comedy that we’ve brought to this international save-the-planet chucklefest.Chucklefest? He means, "chuckleheadfest." Pretty funny, tho. [...]
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    Posted: December 13, 2009, 9:57pm EST
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  • Glassy eyed

    —The Drunkablog

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    So bummed. Tenants were moving crap out through one of the big windows of this jolly shithole and (inadvertently, of course) busted out the nearly 100-year-old glass. Goddamnit. I love that old stuff. You look at a window in this place and you can see how it gets thicker towards [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2009, 6:13pm EST
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  • Would you be so kind as to pull this fork out of my eye?

    —The Drunkablog

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    Thank you. AP:Dozens of Colorado businesses are turning off their lights from noon to 1 p.m. Friday as part of an initiative to conserve energy.

    It’s called Lights Out Lunch. Residents who pledge to turn off their lights too can get discounts from participating restaurants and a [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:05am EST
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  • Quote of the day!

    —The Drunkablog

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    Well, actually yesterday, from one "Mohan K" in response to this WSJ article on the bogosity of "climate change": Of course, let us wait. Let us form a committee to look into the facts behind global warming and climate change. And another committee to investigate the intentions behind denying [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 4:59pm EST
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  • I have gas

    —The Drunkablog

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    Can't tell you how many times a tenant has called and screamed, "I smell gas!" One time, a tenant was having a party and shepherded all her guests out into the cold because of the danger of explosion and burning bodies and death and glavin!

    Every time, it's been [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 5:35pm EST
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  • They're back, and they're pissed off

    —The Drunkablog

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    Space aliens, that is. First, a piece in the Telegraph from July, 2008 on the "flood" of UFO sightings in Britain: Plotted on a map of Britain, the sightings can be seen to stretch from Liverpool to Dover and from Llanelli to Derby. . . .

    The founder [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 11:24am EST
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  • So cold

    —The Drunkablog

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    Nine degrees below zippo, according to one measure. But, as we all know, who knows. It's very cold. Billy Bob has decided to never go out again. And only ten days till winter. GWMA.

    Update: "Typical" links to a blog with a screencap of 9News.com's weather report. That's [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 1:34am EST
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  • More Dickie

    —The Drunkablog

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    Sick of Climategate? I am, for the moment, so just go to WUWT, which is full of AGW goodness. Instead, I'll post some Richard (and the first with Linda) Thompson. Way back again: "A Heart Needs a Home":


    I still wear velour.

    From 1981. "I Want'" [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 7:53pm EST
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  • Mass delusion

    —The Drunkablog

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    Led by the Grauniad: Copenhagen climate change conference: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'

    This editorial calling for action from world leaders on climate change is published today by 56 newspapers around the world in 20 languagesMany, including the Guardian, on the front page. Today' [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:34am EST
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  • Split personality

    —The Drunkablog

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    The Telegraph betrays its own with this ludicrous headline over a rather cynical live-blog (by Geoffrey Lean) of the first day of Copenhagen: "The world has just 11 days to save the planet from global warming. Read the latest updates from the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen here." [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 10:18am EST
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  • Vote love!

    —The Drunkablog

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    The Gamera has a list of its nominees for the top ten local stories of the year. Among them:

    Ward Churchill wins $1: After a protracted legal battle that spurred national headlines, former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill won a civil suit against CU. Churchill was awarded [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 2:02pm EST
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  • Billy bails on Barry

    —The Drunkablog

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    Another non-surprise. Ayers, almost a year ago: And in that bright transcendent morning, the once unthinkable was, suddenly and inevitably, done. Who could resist the embracing magic of that moment?

    The poet Elizabeth Alexander invoked the common people “repairing the things in need of repair.” In a bleeding [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 6:58pm EST
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  • Rats

    —The Drunkablog

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    Mail: The scientist at the heart of the climate change email scandal was today interviewed by police about the scandal. . . .Don't get your hopes up: Sources said the interview concerned the theft of emails from the university and alleged death threats since the contents of the emails' [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:05pm EST
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  • Central Climategate figure Jones 'steps down'

    —The Drunkablog

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    To hell, one hopes. WUWT has the UEA press release. Classic:Professor Phil Jones has today announced that he will stand aside as Director of the Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an independent Review resulting from allegations following the hacking and publication of emails from the Unit.

    [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 3:04pm EST
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  • Not that we didn't know it was coming

    —The Drunkablog

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    Charles Johnson breaks with "the Right."

    By "the Right," of course, he means: 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.)

    2. Support for bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:36pm EST
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  • Abbott ousts Turnbull in Oz

    —The Drunkablog

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    Anti-ETS (Emission Trading System) Lib Tony Abbot has won the leadership of his party by one vote over LINO (Liberal in Name Only) and AGW-believer Malcolm Turnbull. All is not good news, though, as Tim Blair explains. Still, the repercussions of Climategate roll on.

    Update: Caz! Comment!

    [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:22pm EST
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  • My statement on Tiger

    —The Drunkablog

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    by John G. Martin, non-Esq.

    He's an idiot like everyone. Here he is on Obama, pre-election:
    I've seen him speak. He's extremely articulate [black people are allowed to call each other "articulate"], very thoughtful, I'm just impressed at how well, basically all politicians really do, how well they [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:53pm EST
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  • Yeah, sure

    —The Drunkablog

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    Quote of the Day, from Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, in the Grauniad, natch: "The processes in the IPCC are so robust, so inclusive, that even if an author or two has a particular bias it is completely unlikely that bias will find its way into the IPCC" [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:00am EST
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  • Booker: 'Greatest scientific scandal of our age'

    —The Drunkablog

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    Christopher Booker in the Telegraph:The reason why even the Guardian's George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics. Their importance cannot be overestimated, What we are looking at here is' [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:19am EST
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  • Laziest scam-mail ever

    —The Drunkablog

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    From one "Jimi Sanchez." In full: Beloved,

    I am Elizabeth Etters, a Christian.I picked your email randomly for an inheritance of $18M. Please contact me for more details via [redacted].Beloved, huh? Well, who's Jimi, Liz? Always screwing around on me, then coming back and offering me $18 million. It's [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:23pm EST
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  • So 80s

    —The Drunkablog

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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 . . .

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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?

    —The Drunkablog

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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?

    —The Drunkablog

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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!

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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!

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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 . . .

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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 . . ."

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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!

    —The Drunkablog

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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?

    —The Drunkablog

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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"

    —The Drunkablog

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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!

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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!

    —The Drunkablog

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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
    by jgm

  • Couldn't stand it any more

    —The Drunkablog

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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

    —The Drunkablog

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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
    by jgm

  • CU asks for $50,000 in legal expenses from Wart

    —The Drunkablog

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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
    by jgm

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