Bush just called Rumsfeld "rough and gruff." I don't know about you, but for me this conjures up images of McGruff the crime dog, or maybe Zap Rowsdower.

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Added graphic for my last post:


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ELECTION 2004 PRESENTS:

SHELBY FOOTE's THE CIVIL WAR II: THE SOUTH RISES AGAINFeaturing ( Read more... )

Starting Monday, November 1st, as part of my participation in National Novel Writing Month, I am going to begin work on G. (working title only), a novel about Gavin Gardon, a nerdy black kid tapped to play Richard III for his high school play. I would like to write more about it, but the rules prohibit me from doing so for two more days ( Read more... )

I don't do much these days. I get up, I drink coffee, I write, I work, I go home, I spend my evenings in "leisure activity," I read, and I go to bed. Repeat. Eerily close to what normal people are "supposed to do," but I like it just fine this way. As long as it doesn't go on forever ( Read more... )

"Mr. President, God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain and idle self-contemplation and self-admiration. No! He has made us the master-organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adepts in government that we may administer government among ( Read more... )

the Birmingham phone book offers up its secrets:

Pei Pei Wang
Princess Michelle Fails
D. K. "Jay" Wangsgard
Willie Winkles
Heabron Wingo
Tosys Ocyonnt Wonbs
Manli Yang
King Yeap
Easter B. and Pumpkin Yow
Rabah Rabah (what Hamburglar says)
Mrs. Celestine Raspberry
Denver Rash
Dusty Register
M. S. Respess
Moe Ron
Pooh Rowser
Blonnie Ruff
Robert

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Well, he may be gone, but there is one thing I will always remember about him:


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