Ira did a heck of a job. Bingos below - No phonies. 32 for me, 25 for them. Was blessed with good drawing the first half of the tourney, and gave away one win on Sunday to Scott by mistracking. Great seeing some folks I don’t see often. Go see {title of show} on Broadway before it closes…Only a few days left.

http://www.titleofshow.com/

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Let me see if I have this straight…

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're exotic, different. Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.  Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

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She has so many links to comedy. The same last name as one of my favorite comic actors, a passing resemblance to Tina Fey (maybe it's the glasses), but the scary part is that she sounds just like Julia Sweeney - I keep thinking she's going to do lines from an "It's Pat!" sketch.

I've had this joke that I think I made up, but I've never dared use. I'll put it out to the world (small world) if anyone wants to try it.

If you are ever introduced to someone named Neil, quickly ask..."Was that your prison nickname?".

I didn't say it was a great joke. 

After nearly ten years, Randy has a new CD out (well, he's been doing film scores and other stuff) and it's classic Newman. Harps and Angels. Get it.

It has his great 'A Few Words in Defense of our Country' which has been on utube for a year or so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OldToIF5ZGs

Also that song was an op/ed piece in the Times

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While you have plenty of bad bus stories, I hope you will never top this one:

Man beheaded on bus in Canada

Canadian Press

Last update: July 31, 2008 - 10:22 AM

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. - A man aboard a Greyhound Bus in Manitoba stabbed then beheaded a fellow passenger in what witnesses are describing as a savage and apparently unprovoked attack.

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With the bag empty, down by 130 points, I was able to get down 'fitchew' against my buddy Sue. On a double-double. For 130 points. Which caused some physical violence to ensue from Sue.

In this world there may be some twits who
remember a word like the 'fitchew'
It may seem absurd
That it's a word
But play it on Sue and she hits you

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 So this guy is in his doctor's office and the doctor says, "I think you need to stop masturbating".

And the guy says, "Why?".

"Because I'm trying to examine you".

 I don't have cable. It's one of my many goals in life not to have cable. Various goals I have (so far) accomplished in addition to that one are:
Never reading Jane Eyre,
Never downhill skiing, 
Never eating lobster.

That is why on Saturday, in order to see what was happening with the DNC's Rules committee meeting, I had to access C-Span's live ( Read more... )

How can the news media have a policy that is designed to protect families that actually does more harm than good?

My friend Sue’s two year-old nephew, Nathaniel, was killed when a tornado destroyed his family’s home.

On Sunday afternoon in Skokie, Sue gets back from the Scrabble tournament we are playing in and checks the Minneapolis Star Tribune ( Read more... )