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– Bjørn Stærk has done gone over to the dark side. See The People’s Blog – Countdown to the Revolution, with Bj?rn St?rk
I quit writing on the web when I realized that nobody cares about the ignorant hate speech of a right-wing nut.
He’s ahead of the rest of us – by several hours.
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– I wonder what the effect would be on the insane daily suicide bombings in Israel if Mr. Sharon was to announce that every time a civilian is killed by a terrorist, Mr. Arafat will lose a body part. Bomb a civilian, off goes a hand or a foot. Bomb two civilians, say bye-bye to [...]
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– A new housework study from Britain reports that middle-class men and women do essentially equal amounts of housework, totalling many fewer hours than claimed by their American counterparts. See Times Online (free registration)
[Women] in social categories A and B do 10 hours a week. Women in categories C2, D and E, which include blue-collar [...]
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– Dr. Weevil raises the question that’s on everybody’s mind: “Does a female martyr get 72 male virgins?”
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– Some of the people who went to Milby High in Houston with Andrea Yates (nee Kennedy) in the class of 1982 discuss her case on the Classmates message board. Andrea graduated second in her class, and took all the hard (”Major Works”) courses. Her friends say she had a “quirky” sense of humor, [...]
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– Interesting interview on video performance artist Bill O’Reilly’s show on Fox News with model American mother Rosie O’Donnell. I don’t follow Rosie when I have a choice, but she came across as much less monstrous than usual. She was fairly strident in the beginning, but that was nerves as much as anything. O’Reilly reminds [...]
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– I just learned that I went to the same high school as a very famous person (HoustonChronicle.com – Transcript of Andrea Yates’ confession:)
MEHL: And you went to high school here in Houston, right?
YATES: Yes.
MEHL: Where?
YATES: Milby.
Now that’s really special.
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– High among the reasons Californians are the laughing-stock of America is the talent of our state legislators for pushing ridiculous agendas to absurd heights, as John Vasconcellos did with his silly self-esteem program. The latest example of this remarkable exercise in unintentional reflexivity is a bill by one of the most rotund members of [...]
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– The dogfight between Ken Layne and Matt Welch on the frogs and the decision by Ashcroft to charge Moussaoui with the a death-penalty offense brings to mind this prophetic column of Ann Coulter’s: Attack France!
If this is a war against terrorism and not a Eurocentric war against Islam, the conclusion is ineluctable: We must [...]
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– Infamous East Bay blogger Dr. Frank is featured in the East Bay Express. Check it out.
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