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Archive for February, 2007

Current Event Fatigue

I’m this close to not giving a damn.
This close.
It is universally agreed among the rulers of this blog that much of what passes for news, in fact, is not. So, I won’t mention how much television time is devoted to the irrelevance of missing coeds, teacher student love-fests, and idiotic celebrities–living or dead. On and [...]

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Moral relativity

Read a writing from a close colleague recently which correctly pointed out that Libby’s like Clinty made movies that would not take a stand for right or wrong and would never portray us the US in a light where we held the moral high ground like we most assuredly did in WWII and I believe [...]

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Brush with Greatness

Mike Ditka was in town today to promote his new line of fine wines. I ran into him at an Addison beverage store where there were tens of his devoted fans waiting to have their bottles signed. He asked me to hang around for a chat but I was busy, so I snapped this photo [...]

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To hell with em

Bank of America has seen fit to give credit cards to members of the third world army of occupation that is currently bivoacked in my country. So to hell with BoA.
The NFL refused to air a commercial aimed at recruiting border patrol officers so as not to offend members of the third world army of [...]

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It’s All Good

Clint Eastwood the Wise recently spoke about his two most recent movies, “Flags of Our Fathers”, and “Letters from Iwo Jima”…
“I think every war has a certain parallel in the futility of it and that’s one of the reasons for telling these stories — they are not pro-war stories.
“The emotions of the [...]

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Will it ever end?

Sweet Jesus, please make it stop. How loooong can the media bludgeon us over the head with details of the death of a talentless, semi-retarded, drug addled, gold digging, whore? Evidently, I am the only one who doesn’t regard Anna Nicole Smith’s life as “a train wreck that we couldn’t look away from.” As [...]

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