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Brass Balls Ornament For Your Car

You know you’re a redneck when… you have brass balls hanging off the back of your truck.?!!! In case you want some brass balls of your own, you can find them here and here.

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Starbucks to Close Stores?

I asked my friend Vaughan who I know likes Starbucks if he wanted the remaining balance on my Starbucks gift card. I got one for Christmas, but as I don’t really like Starbucks coffee and I don’t really approve of their world domination tactics against small business owners I didn’t want to finish the card [...]

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Speaking of Humiliating Photographs

I feel less bad about these.

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Media Perfects the Humiliated Weak Loser Photograph

What a way to kick a man while he’s down. Not only have most media outlets ignored John Edwards in the race, but now I can’t seem to find one dignified photograph of a man who, though not my choice, lead an admirable race.

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Make Your Kids’ Lunch

 A reminder: if you are waiting for the government to protect you, in this case from mad cow disease, keep waiting. Video footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the “downer” cows on [...]

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Nominate Your Favorite Shaky Cam Film

In honor of Cloverfield making people sick, I’m asking readers to nominate their favorite film that employs a shaky cam during some or all of the film. Though I am a computer programmer, this is going to be low tech. Just add your film to the comments and say whether or not the film was [...]

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The Wizard Behind Mitt’s Curtain

During Gov. Romney’s speech, one of his handlers mentioned to one of our staff people that any time Gov. Romney needed to wrap things up, he would be happy to let Gov. Romney know through the ear-piece that he wore. Could Romney’s so-called economic expertise be actually some sort of Wizard of Oz operation? Are [...]

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I Want to See Djokovic’s Impression of Djokovic

A lot of attention has been payed to Djokovic’s impression of Sharapova, but I think his Roddick, Nadal and Federer are even more on target especially his Federer where he nimbly pirouettes all over the place. But now I want to see his impression of himself. This photo shows his amazing flexibility which is as [...]

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Doesn’t Every 12 Year Old Want to be Circumsized?

I’m going to start out by apologizing for my lack of understanding on any faith that thinks cutting off a portion of the male genitalia makes you closer to God. No, I don’t get it and I don’t think I ever will. And the so-called “health” benefits from circumcision are nothing but a desperately scientific [...]

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Those Creepy Republicans

I never thought I could be weirded out by something more than Dick Cheney lurking in the bushes, but here it is. No, that whisper is not the Implied Observer, but who is it?

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Race In America Revisited

This is a topic I think I will have to revisit often. Earlier I posted why I thought America was ready to vote for a black president and was accused of being overly optimistic. I hope that wasn’t the case, but yesterday a report from McClatchy shows that Obama has only 10% support from white [...]

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Federer Loses in Semi

All of a sudden the tournament just got more interesting.

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Please Not the Shaky Cam!

Apparently the new JJ Abrams movie is making people sick. I can’t wait for the DVD extras where they show “the making of” and we see some camera guy with really bad balance.

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Tsonga: The Next Mohammed Ali?

Tsonga definitely reminds me of Ali if Ali played tennis, but I’m just excited to have the hope that another great player can topple Federer. We saw a little of that with Tipsaveric. It’ s not that I don’t like Federer, but the game is boring with just one dominant guy. I’m eternally grateful to [...]

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If You’re a Cyclist, French, and Gay You’re Expendable

Earlier I made case against the leniency of vehicular assaults that do not involve alcohol. Here is a tragic case of one that does. As an occasional bicycle commuter, I’m pleased to see this woman got what she deserved. A judge sentenced a woman to nearly the maximum prison term for negligent homicide after hearing [...]

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Mt. Everest Fashions of Yonder Year

Was Hillary the first man on Mt. Everest? Could you climb Mt. Everest in plain wool clothes? The answers are here: The results of a unique experiment on Mount Everest confirm that the clothing of the 1924 climbers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine would not have prevented them from reaching the summit, as many had [...]

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Guilt By Association

I think this pretty much sums up Romney for me. Exit polls in Michigan suggest that Mitt Romney owes his primary election victory there to happy, loyal Republicans. The former Massachusetts governor dominated the six in 10 Republican primary voters who support the war in Iraq; the 53 percent who are happy with President Bush [...]

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RIP Heathcliff Andrew Ledger

April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008 Just a reminder that it is never a good idea to name your child after characters in Wuthering Heights.

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Dirt – Who Needs It?

This article brings us yet another way our species is negatively impacting the planet. While the earth will most likely eventually recover from whatever we throw at it, we will not. We can’t grow food if we have no top soil in which to grow it. “Globally, it’s clear we are eroding soils at a [...]

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Scary Huckabee

Huckabee, who said he was not there as a presidential candidate, warmed up his conservative audience by declaring that overturning the Roe v. Wade court ruling was not enough because it would leave individual states to decide their own laws on abortion – a moral issue where there is a right and a wrong, contends [...]

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The Wisdom of Training Manuals

Since training manuals actually have a practical purpose, they tend to be a whole lot more honest than official speak. Take for instance a Canadian training manual for their diplomats: A training manual for Canadian diplomats lists the United States as a country where prisoners risk torture and abuse, citing interrogation techniques such as stripping [...]

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Wow! A Vehicular Assault Conviction that Doesn’t Involve Alcohol

It always makes me angry that people who drink and drive get the book thrown at them for vehicular assault, but negligent drivers who kill people get a slap on the wrist. To the family that has lost their loved one, it’s little comfort that the person is just a bad driver. Well today a [...]

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Hold the Artificial Butter Flavoring For Me

I’m constantly reminded how I can’t count on the government to, well, do anything. In this case, provide a safe work place and safe food. Since 2000, some pop corn factory workers have required lung transplants because they developed cancers from diacetyl an artificial butter flavoring. Only after a diligent doctor revealed that a consumer [...]

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Tatiana – One Final Act

An autopsy conducted by a zoo veterinarian on the Siberian tiger after police shot it to death showed that the animal had been “very determined to get out,” Matthews said. Its claws were broken and splintered by clambering up the concrete moat wall, Matthews quoted the veterinarian as saying. Revealing all you need to know [...]

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