Honor the dead.
Heal the wounded.
End the war.


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That's the highly tasteful and not exploitative at ALL video the Republicans showed at the convention tonight to spread fear of brown people honor the victims of 9/11 ( Read more... )

Most of the Hawks office staff were fired today, apparently in desperate cost-cutting measures. Tracy, Liz, Dave, Jennifer for sure. Kelley and Doug stay, and apparently Angel too. Don't know about Marsha. Kelley I understand keeping, but letting Tracy go was insane. She made next to nothing and basically ran the office, doing about three ( Read more... )

I've just added 'warriors-for-innocence are facists' to my interests. Think that'll get me in trouble? (Oh yeah, I also am running an LJ archiving program as I type this...hopefully my POS laptop can get through it before it shuts down from its fake overheating problem ( Read more... )

Very interesting, if somewhat chilling, article about Swift Current on ESPN.com today. Covers the bus crash, Graham James & Sheldon Kennedy, and what the writer describes as the town 'turning its back' on the current team and the memory of the 4 killed players. Sakic has some typically bland quotes (Quoteless Joe!) and apparently only agreed to be ( Read more... )

So, Alec Baldwin was apparently so moved by a story in the New York Times about an 18-year-old girl's last days with family and friends before reporting for training and deploying to Iraq that he (personally) tracked her family down and offered to pay for her education after she got out of the military.

Her reaction?

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Here's hoping that Beckham fails miserably to bring any kind of validation or popularity to MLS soccer, and that the league finally gives up and dies.

$38 million a year, are you kidding me? To prance around and fall down like a little girl? Soccer blows.

Baseball players don't even make $38M/yr, and people actually, you know, watch baseball. ( Read more... )

CAMPBELL'S SOUP IS MAKING WONTON AGAIN!!!!

This is like a blast from my past! I adore wonton soup, even the crappy Americanized canned Campbell's version. I used to eat it all the time as a kid and then they just suddenly stopped making it for YEARS.

BUT IT'S BACK.


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Bush Gropes, Planet Cringes
Knead a German chancellor, banter dumbly, reveal global ignorance. It's Dubya abroad!

Mark Morford, SF Gate
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 So now we know ( Read more... )

The Department of Hopeless Stupidity has released a new list of 'Potential Terror Targets.' In theory, it's a list of important monuments, chemical and power plants, and structures like bridges and dams, which is supposed to be used to divide up the money for anti-terror measures ( Read more... )