I took the S.O to see the movie this weekend. I had mixed impressions. I thought it was still a good movie but the first one was better. The first one had more of an edge to it. Idle observations: The years 2000-2010 produced, for the most part, no really
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I was going through my archives the other day, and I came upon a couple of posts I had written about gay marriage. Judging by the angry comments they both recieved-you would have thought I was caught red-handed molesting puppies or something. When in reality, all I was voicing was
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Savannah has tasked me with answering the meme of 8. Eight questions about blogging. I can never resist a challenge so here are my answers. Your mileage may very-but this is mine: 1. Why did you start blogging? I began this blog out of a sense of frustration responding to
Continue readingElmo is one lucky boy.
And American parents are a real pain in the ass. To quote my Canadian counterpart: There’s a lot that kids can learn from Ms. Perry, such as the utility of having fantastic breasts. That’s pretty powerful and it couldn’t be more appropriate in an age of economic decay. Kids need
Continue readingIdol worshippers………
The Economist’s Lexington makes a provocative case that the Tea Baggers obsession with the Constitution and its framers has become unhealthy: Accept for argument’s sake that those who argue this way have identified the right problem. The constitution, on its own, does not provide the solution. Indeed, there is something
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The GOP’s pledge that is not a pledge-but a rehash of stupid ideas: One person likes it though:
Continue readingSpeaking of movies…..
Flash Gordon is only one of the movies that are on my list of: “Movies I will stop and watch while channel surfing.” Here are a few more: Goodfellas ( A must in any many real man’s movie collection). Absence of Malice ( I like the story). All three Back
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Flash Gordon was on TV tonight-probably the only really bad movie saved by it’s soundtrack. As a result of the Queen sound track though-and all the hot babes in 70’s hairdo’s-it’s on my list of “movies I can watch again and again”. Of course, as most of you know-its best
Continue readingTough time making ends meet…..
On 400,000 dollars a year. Professor Todd Henderson makes 445,000 dollars a year. That kind of qualifies as pretty affluent by anyones standards. However in the kind of topsy turvy world we live in nowadays-the good Dr. Henderson seems to have trouble getting to end of each and every month.
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I will be updating the links today. There are a bunch of dead ones over there-and they desperately need updating. Did not have the time to update while I was in Romania. For the commenters-and this is important-if you do not provide a valid e-mail address with your comment, your
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