Sep 03
Sep 03, 2012
Martin Kelly -
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There have been many comments on the President’s statement about businesses, that you didn’t build that, someone else did. The right wing talking heads claim that this is obviously a socialist statement that all is owned the collective. The left wing talking heads will defend the statement by rephrasing the lead up comments, that without […]
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Aug 31
Aug 31, 2012
kosmo -
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I’ve been working on my first novel for a few years now. I got the first draft to about 10,000 (not terribly long) before deciding to completely re-baseline. It’s hard to basically throw that work in the trash, but when I wrote it, I was basically trying to get some words down, knowing that I’d […]
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Aug 30
Aug 30, 2012
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This week is the Republican National Convention. Anger seems to be the word of the week so far. The convention got off to a rocky start when hurricane Isaac threatened Florida, forcing a very abbreviated first day session that lasted exactly two minutes. Oddly, hurricanes also affected the 2004 and 2008 conventions. Ron Paul Ron […]
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Aug 28
Aug 28, 2012
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This is based loosely on the experience of Baseball Prospectus writer/podcaster/managing partner Kevin Goldstein. He became fascinated with his weird neighbors, who were constantly throwing out mattresses on trash day – until they were evicted today. Nobody ever saw mattresses coming in, but they always saw them on the curb waiting for the garbage truck. […]
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Aug 28
Aug 28, 2012
Johnny Goodman -
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And So It Begins This Thursday with a couple of games to kick-off the season. While most of the country will be focused on watching the big opening weekend match up of Alabama and Michigan, (Alabama coincidentally is a 14 point favorite over Big Blue) Thursday night officially starts the season. 9 games top the […]
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Aug 27
Aug 27, 2012
Martin Kelly -
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I worked at NASA during the Space Shuttle era. I missed the Apollo era mostly because of age. I was almost 5 years old when I stayed up all night to watch the first man on the moon. July 1969 and Neil Armstrong were major drivers that made me who I am today. Bad eyes […]
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Aug 24
Aug 24, 2012
The Angry Squirrel -
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Akin; adjective. Of similar character. It is such a perfect last name for that new pariah of the Republican party, Missouri Congressman and Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin. That is despite all their faux outrage at his comments this week on legitimate rape and the magical woman parts during it, they really posses the exact […]
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