cutting through the fat of this world
Today is Presidents Day, but I think it’s also a good day to honor our king.
King Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus
Read all about it. Listen to it if you have it. You do have it don’t you?
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Until now, the World Record for continuously watching TV stood at 69 hours and 48 minutes. The record was set by Suresh Joachim in September 2005.
Here is an excerpt from the MSNBC story:
Couch potato, thy name is Suresh. Suresh Joachim broke the Guinness world record for the longest time spent watching TV. He finished [...]
How did we get from here…
That’s Barack Obama delivering the Keynote Address at the 2004 Democratic Convention. I remember it well and I also remembering quite a few people telling me how they’d love to be able to vote for him for president instead of John Kerry.
To here?
That’s today’s weekly comic from Mr. Fish on [...]
As we all know by now, Bush defined the Axis of Evil as Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
Iraq is in ruins thanks to U.S. military involvement. It may be in the throws of a civil war, but is definitely not worthy of membership in any Axis of Evil.
North Korea recently entered into a nuclear [...]
Carl Bernstein rose to international fame for his work with Bob Woodward covering the Nixon Administration and the Watergate scandal. In a recent interview for a new Frontline 4 part series News War, he compares the Bush Administration to the Nixon Administration. The series is currently airing and can also be viewed online here.
The following [...]
I love the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Director and Co-writer Michel Gondry is so talented.
So, when I found that the Michel Gonry had a new movie out called the Science of Sleep, I knew I would like it.
Unfortunately, I never made it to the theater to see it. But it [...]
Barack Obama officially entered the presidential race last Saturday. About a week or so before that he, along with many other contenders, spoke at the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting. Most of the candidates chose theme songs to be played while they entered or exited the hall: Clinton picked two, “Right Here, Right Now,” by [...]
A couple days ago it was Bob Marley day. Well now it’s James Dean Day.
Here’s some dialogue from Giant.
Leslie Benedict: Money isn’t all, you know?
Jett Rink: Not when you’ve got it.
And later on…
Jett Rink: My well came in, Bick.
Bick Benedict: Fine. That’s wonderful, Jett.
Jett: Everybody thought I had a duster. You all thought Spindletop and
Burkburnett [...]
Today is Bob Marley’s birthday.
Listen to Exodus. It’ll make your day better.
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Congressman Charles Wrangell of New York, among others, has raised the spectre of a draft as the way to ensure that a) we never get ourselves into another Iraq and b) that if we do, at least our entire society will bear the burden and the sacrifice.
It’s an attractive idea for many of us who [...]
