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Posted on December 1st, 2008 under current events, politics. Comments: None

i voted today.
i’m going to be out of the country on election day, so i took some time to head to my local elections bureau to cast an absentee ballot. it took about an hour to drive there (while we’re in a small county, the east-west routes aren’t well-served by our nation’s highways). when [...]

Posted on October 22nd, 2008 under current events, politics. Comments: 1

A 75-year-old Texas rancher recently explained this term to a country doctor. The conversation turned to the US election, and Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential candidacy, and the old rancher observed: “Well, ya know, Palin is a post-turtle.” The bemused doctor asked what a post-turtle was, and the old man replied: “When you’re driving down a country [...]

Posted on October 12th, 2008 under current events, politics. Comments: None

Posted on October 11th, 2008 under cack, current events, politics. Comments: 2

John McCain has made a remarkable move in his choice of VeeP. He’s chosen a runner up in the 1984 Miss Alaska contest, Governor Sarah Palin.
her energy policies look, ahem, interesting. we’ll see where this one goes.
No Hillary, but a woman in the election regardless.

Posted on August 29th, 2008 under culture, current events, politics. Comments: None

it will be beacuse of joe biden’s unnatural hair

Posted on August 25th, 2008 under cack, culture, current events, politics. Comments: 2

How awesome would this be?
http://greatamericanroadtrip.us/
I heard about this on NPR this morning. Very cool. Today, they’re my almost-heroes.
It’s also a pointless waste of gas.
Although it’s not as cool as the guys who went from NYC to Santa Monica, CA in 31 hours. Yup. 31 hours.
http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/15-11/ff_cannonballrun

Posted on May 7th, 2008 under cack, culture, current events. Comments: None

If the guy had just gone along with it like everyone else there wouldn’t have been any asterisks in the record books. No real comments made. Perhaps a few snide remarks over the rest of his life, but he’s still die with a pretty impressive legacy.
Now, because he had to be a pig [...]

Posted on February 28th, 2008 under current events, sports. Comments: None

if you’re interested in some very compelling interviews with eclectic, unpretentious and interesting guests, check out the alcove iwth mark molaro
http://markmolaro.blip.tv/
jerome might like the gwendolyn wright interview where she talks about american houses (she’s also the history detectives lady)
enjoy, or don’t.

Posted on November 15th, 2007 under culture, current events, digital content, technology. Comments: None

at the moment, she’s on the front page of cnn because scalpers are pricing out her core fans with outrageous prices.
who’s buying these tickets? adults? i don’t think so. fathers brought their kids to see Britney back in the day (you remember the pre-trucker days, right?) so they could drool over britney.
hannah montana? [...]

Posted on October 12th, 2007 under culture, current events. Comments: None

i really do. i fear dying more than death and wish neither upon anyone, but i had to chuckle when i saw that marcel marceau had passed.
the guy was a mime, which makes him my nemesis. along with clowns and midgets.
but as mimes go, he went pretty well. he did the Mel [...]

Posted on September 23rd, 2007 under cack, culture, current events. Comments: 1

josé carranza aka jose la chira
or
josé caranza
the newark new jersey mayor has just announced an arrest warrant for this guy’s arrest for the murder of three students last week and the attempted murder of another.
$150,000 to find this guy
wow- wondering how crazy the search engines are going right now, searching for this name

Posted on August 9th, 2007 under cack, current events. Comments: None

Tommy Makem died this week.

I had the pleasure of seeing Tommy perform a few times in Washington (The Four Ps on Connecticut Ave) and it was a blast. I wish we’d been a bit more mature (smuggling brandy in so that we could add it to our cokes) but when we weren’t singing along, [...]

Posted on August 4th, 2007 under cack, culture, current events. Comments: None

Bob Cousy (I played in a league named after him!)
Tom Heinsohn (always reminded me of Fred Flintstone)
Larry Bird (met him at a dinner in the North End of Boston, the night before he coached his last game in Boston)
Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Bill Russell.
Almost six decades spent building exceptional teams, discovering legends and [...]

Posted on October 29th, 2006 under culture, current events, sports. Comments: 2

seriously, can’t you imagine this dog with the aliens drinking coffee and smoking cigs in the break room?
this poor dog disturbs me on so many levels
why did they not put it down at birth?
why would they torture the poor thing this way? poor Faith!

Posted on August 14th, 2006 under culture, current events. Comments: None