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Hooray!
Favre to Woodson!
Favre to Harris!
Favre to Atari Bigby! -
they hate us, we hate them...we can't win
Can we really solve our society's problems with beer? Of course we can, and should. Beer is indisputably the ideal facilitator of conflict resolution. But a better answer is probably still "beer and a thorough investigation by Internal Affairs, supervised by the public", because in the same week of the "beer summit"* we've got a gay lawyer in D. ( Read more... ) -
oh, dang: united4iran
Today's the day for worldwide rallies in support of the people of Iran. A lot of the North American events are already over or under way at the time of this post, but there could still be time to make the West Coast ones or the Boston one. -
deep thought
Why should Sgt. James Crowley apologize for an arrest his own department has already apologized for, when there's probably a book deal from Regnery waiting for him if he instead whines about "reverse racism"?
This has already started, by the way. He's hit local talk radio. -
broken spirometers
Things Not To Do, Part MMMDCCXLVISJIASDF: Have MSNBC and your local lefty community radio station on at the same time, both with the sound on at equal volumes, with the former playing back Gov. Palin's resignation announcement at the same time that the latter is running a Democracy Now! special consisting of Noam Chomsky talking for a solid hour ( Read more... ) -
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I don't have any toons on Proudmoore-US, and I'm pretty sure that server's full anyway, but it would have been worth rolling one there just to have watched the 5th Annual Proudmoore Pride Parade. Think what you will about social and political happenings in virtual worlds, but an LGBT pride parade in World of Warcraft has to have just enough ( Read more... ) -
petty linguistic quibbles about terrible events
(1) When the MSNBC anchor announced the death of Stephen Tyrone Johns a short time ago, she specifically (and repeatedly) described him as having "passed away". Perhaps she chose her words in some effort to extend some sort of mannered respect to the deceased, but if she did, the gesture fell flat because the description rang false. People "pass ( Read more... ) -
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After a period of seeming decline, during which thrice-champion UW-Madison eclipsed them as the frisbee power of the Midwest, CUT have won nationals, closing out a 15-11 win over Mamabird of CU in the final. There was supposedly live streaming video of the final matches this year, but the UPA site didn't have links up to the alleged feed until the ( Read more... ) -
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back spasms hurt like pain