January 2008
John Edwards to Quit Presidential Race - AP →
Good grief. The reporter’s enthusiasm for Edwards practically bleeds off the page. This is an editorial, not journalism.
WatchA very hastily thrown together widget using the tools available at Sprout Builder—currently in private beta.
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Electile Dysfunction: the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election year.
Via my supervisor, who states: “Yes, these are the kind of jokes my dad likes to send to his daughter.”
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Driver drops bid to sue family of boy he killed -... →
Tomas Delgado had filed a suit asking the dead boy’s parents to pay him €20,000 ($29,400) on the grounds that the collision that killed their teenage son also damaged his Audi A-8. As my co-worker says, “This story makes me wish we could bring back the Medieval stockade in the town center and throw vegetables at this guy.”
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List of Presidents of the United States - Wikipedia
I was looking through our list of presidents, and a few thoughts struck me. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that we’ve had so many presidents whom almost nobody knows anything about anymore. Each of these guys served in their own unique political climate, with “major issues facing our nation.” Each probably had his own...
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I’m playing around with my tumblr profile today, trying out pics to use for the background. The one in use right now—up through the trees—I took last summer. I imported it into Picnik and tweaked around the colors and saturation. More to come, I’m sure.
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Share and reblog to your tumblr from within Google... →
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iVideosongs Teaches You How To Be A Real Guitar... →
It offers video tutorials on how to play guitar from world-class instructors, musicians and sidemen. This site seems to be aimed squarely at the aging Baby Boomer male who still wans to play guitar. And there are a lot of those. But, actually, anyone can learn from the videos, which are quite good. The videos are large and clearly show closeups of exactly what you need to do.
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McDonald's dishes up diplomas to go - CNN.com →
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“Whatever the case, the public seems to have made up its mind about President...”
– James Taranto
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Instapundit podcast: Jonah Goldberg on Hillary,... →
[Show description:] It’s sure to make a splash, and it’s already got some left bloggers in a tizzy even though it doesn’t come out until next week. It’s Jonah Goldberg’s new book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. The title comes from H.G. Wells, and the history won’t be news to people...
Who Said Freddy's Dead? - RealClearPolitics →
A fascinating argument. Still, I don’t see how somebody who has dropped out of the race could possibly win it.
Marijuana vending machines come to California →
Yep, you read that right.
Proposal raised emissions concerns →
I’m filing this under “Headlines I Can’t Improve Upon.”
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The most recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy...
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Watch“Being in a wingsuit is like being in your own personal jet fighter. It’s like you sprouted wings and you’re a bird. To me that’s the ultimate freedom.” says Dave Barlia. — un
“According to the 2004 Census report, Idaho’s population is 1,393,262. Just...”
– Random anti idaho sentiment scraped from the ‘intertubes.
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“Although only 10 percent of SBC pastors identify themselves as Calvinists,...”
– TULIP Blooming | Christianity Today
U23D reviewed →
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Watch“Everlong” by Foo Fighters just came on my Last.fm player. One of my favorites from high school. Acoustic version here.
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“[John] Vratil, chairman of the [Kansas] Senate Judiciary Committee, said some of...”
– Topeka Capital-Journal
I’m all for limited government, but since when does enforcing the most basic Constitutional rights (life) translate into an oppressive state?
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Idaho Man, Believing He Has the Mark of the Beast,... →
The danger of taking verses out of context, Exhibit A.
