tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50168462011-08-24T09:43:25.789-04:00I hear the voices, and I read the front page, and I know the speculation. But I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. Blogger.com can suck me.Brendanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780508013547903940noreply@blogger.comBlogger8021100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016846.post-1151986186286695672006-07-03T23:57:00.000-04:002006-07-04T00:10:08.833-04:00

The blogroll isn't up yet, the presentation needs a little work (I have some photos fready to go, but these are small mattersMore important is the fact that my archives are now fully imported and established at Brendan Calling (dawt cawm). I finally feel... at home. I feel at home at my new site. Thanks SO much to Chris from Booman Tribune and Rowhouse Logic. Dude, you kick ass and I owe you

Brendanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780508013547903940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016846.post-1151433929226215852006-06-27T14:37:00.000-04:002006-06-27T14:45:29.280-04:00

I have a new blog open for business. Sometime over the next week or two, i'll be importing everything from BCFTU to mty new digs, Brendan Calling.I'll take this opportunity to say THANKS! to Chris from Rowhouse Logic and Booman Tribune for giving me space on his server, as well as for designing the site and helping me edit it to my satisfaction.As you may imagine, posting here at bcftu will

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Act 1. Scene ISCENE I. An urban place.Thunder and lightning. Enter three disgruntled Lefties.First Lefty:When shall we three meet againIn thunder, lightning, or in rain?Second Lefty:When the hurlyburly's done,When the battle's lost and won.Third Lefty:That will be ere the set of sun.First Lefty:Where the place?Second LeftyWhy, Drinking Liberally of course, Tuesday, at Tangier, corner of 18th and

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Brendan Calling is now up, but I haven't blogged there yet because I don't understand wordpress.As soon as my admin gets in touch with me (Chris, where are you??), I'll be importing everything from blogger, and getting started.Just an FYI.

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Today, the GOP rejected this amendment by the Democrats:SEC. 1209. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE GRANTING OF AMNESTY TO PERSONS KNOWN TO HAVE KILLED MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES IN IRAQ.(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:(1) The Armed Forces of the United States and coalition military forces are serving heroically in Iraq to provide all the people of Iraq a better future.(2) The Armed

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I used to hate Britney Spears, and I still have no use for her music. I did however gain a shred or two of respect for the girl when i caught a few seconds of some interview a year or so ago, where she played some piano. Bless her heart, she actually DOES know how to play music, I thought, and made a note. Ever since, I've given her a bit of slack.No matter how rich you are, it's GOTTA suck to

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18th and Lombard, Philadelphia: Drinking Liberally holds its weekly get together starting at Tangier, from 6:00 PM until whenever they throw us out or Duncan starts throwing punches. Come on out and talk some shit about George Bush the Fecal King.

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It is always delightful to watch the Christian right's apologists, the Republican Party, rail about gay marriage and the threat it poses to heterosexuals everywhere.I enjoy this periodic outburst, because it means I get to throw scripture right back in their faces. Like this one from Matthew 7:3: "You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the

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May 24, 2006: "[A] NEWSWEEK investigation shows that, as a means of pre-empting a repeat of 9/11, Bush, along with Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft, signed off on a secret system of detention and interrogation that opened the door to such methods. It was an approach that they adopted to sidestep the historical safeguards of the Geneva Conventions, which protect the

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I don't like that feeling badly kept me from doing something I'd been looking forward to the past three weeks, something that I'd played no small hand in organizing.I don't like it at all.

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I was expecting to be really depressed yesterday, but I got busy cleaning my house and buying sealant for my deck. I guess I thought I would skate by without incident, but it looks like the Cloud is back, and in a pretty big way. It started moving in around 6:30 this morning as I was thinking about how I have to buy blocks, Duplo Bricks, and other age-appropriate toys for Sam to have around my

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Maybe my well-known loathing for Hallmark Holidays combined with my well-known depression from being separated from my son to scare off everyone, but the only person who called to wish me a Happy Fathers' Day was my brother.I mean, I can understand Melissa not giving me a call, since I resolutely stayed away from the phone on Mothers' Day (and actually Melissa DID call, but the new phone doesn't

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In the next few days (weeks?) the staff and offices of Brendan Calling From the Underground, INC, LTD, LLC, is packing up and moving out of blogger. As you may know, we've been unhappy with blogger and its frequent freakouts and foibles for quite sometime, and last week's outage was the final straw. We've found some free space on a different server, and pretty soon, you'll be able to find us at

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The Stoneman Family - Surf Bluegrass InstrumentalThis is my first youtube blog. Here's hoping it comes through, because this is some hella bluegrass. That is some WICKED mandolin playing.

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I know. I'm going to hell. But good God, old testicle chin's expression is just creepy!

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On June 16, 2006 the House of Representatives, led by the Republican Majority, voted on a nonbinding resolution rejecting a timetable for our brave troops to come home, expressing the sense that an "arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment" would be bad for the nation. Or, as President Bush so forcefully put it, "As Iraqis stand up, American troops will stand down."Yet on June 15, 2006,

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"Thank you would have been a good start."Poppycock, Mr.Grogan. Poppycock.Let's work backwards.Why was Nick Berg in Iraq? He was seeking to build cell-phone infrastructure as part of what was to be a proftable US occupation and reconstruction effort.Why was there to be a profitable occupation? Because Mr. Bush and his administration chose to start a war in Iraq, telling us that the Iraqis would

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I just got back from the Wind Gap Bluegrass Festival, four days of pickin' and partyin' with the The Grillbillies, of which I am a humble "member", in quotes because membership is so easy to come by, just ask Matty!After my doctor's appointment on thursday, which went a lot longer than it should have, I loaded up the van and we set off up the Schuylkill Expressway for Wind Gap at about 4:00 PM.

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I just dropped by Will Bunch's attytood site, which I dropped from my blogroll a month or two ago. I paid a brief visit to the comments section to see if anything's changed.Ugh... nothing's changed. If anything it's gotten worse. I am SO glad I left.Will, control your baboons!

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"You can't hit a girl," Andy was saying out in the parking lot, "you just can NOT hit a girl. Not only," he slurred (we'd all been drinking), "Not only is it inexcusable, even if she deserved it as much as any guy, you can't do it. There's no winning." We nodded our heads in agreement."Seriously," Murph piped in. "Women can get away with a lot more than guys sometimes, just because normal guys

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ARGLE BARGLE BLAAAGH! BLAGH BLEG BLIGGITY BLAGGITY BLOOG! 1, 2, 3...You know, it's actually the case that the way to deal with an insurgency is with a political, not a military, process, but I really don't know how Republicans seamlessly slip from kill'em all to hug'em all.From the DSCC: This afternoon on the Senate floor, several Senate Republicans are DEFENDING the proposal to give amnesty

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Lucy E. Parsons, "To Tramps," Alarm, October 4, 1884. Also printed and distributed as a leaflet by the International Working People's Association.TO TRAMPS,The Unemployed, the Disinherited, and Miserable. A word to the 35,000 now tramping the streets of this great city, with hands in pockets, gazing listlessly about you at the evidence of wealth and pleasure of which you own no part, not

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Of Rats and Men is a new addition to the blogroll. Good stuff, and some great pictures of abandoned infrastructure. Just the thing to tickle my eyeball bone.Pay a visit, you won't be disappointed.

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This is for nyone who's been following this week's truly creepy "let's all get buried together" series:And for your edification, the original (this section crossposted in the comments at Comics Curmudgeon):Odd, isn't it, how adamant Elly is that her parents' remains be separated? What's going on here?Dr. Brendan suggests that it might be linked to some deeper psychological issues going on with

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Well, a bunch of phone calls and emails later, Brendan Calling is back online at blogger.com.But not for long: this latest outage is the straw that broke the camel's back and I'm taking up a friend's offer of free server space and registering a new domain.In the meantime, I'll be registering a formal complaint against blogger's customer service team, which you may recall didn't see fit to respond

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I have a new volunteer gig as co-host, along with Tattered Coat Matt, of Philadelphia Drinking Liberally.We get together every Tuesday evening, from 6:00 PM until the last holdout heads home, at Tangier, a bar and grill located at the corner of 18th and Lombard Streets. Free wings for early birds and drink specials as well. As you may know, 15 or 20 of the top 50 most influential lefty bloggers

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Notice my fine, fine ass behind him. And if you think that's scary...here's my old man. Behold, the ravages of AGE!Tree Hugger

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It's finally here: National Day of Slayer.Learn the sacred words of Praise Hail Satan!Reign in Blood is playing right now.Slayer!Slayer!SLAYER!!!

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I've played bass for a number of bands since moving to Philadelphia, all with different degrees of success. I moved here with Jim and Jennie and the Pinetops, a band that has since gone on to tour Europe, Canada, the United States, and has been picked up by Bloodshot Records, perhaps the pre-eminent insurgent country label in the nation if not the world. Jennie was difficult, but incredibly

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Photobucket is really running at its shittiest today. I have about 70 shots of Sam to upload, and it's refusing to upload more than one at a time. It's taking fucking forever.I understand blogger's in the toilet today too.

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We'll start with some beach photos. These are from Strathmere, a lovely stretch of beach near Ocean City. No life guards, no beach passes, and not a lot of people. Sheer bliss. Warning: Contains Pictures of Shirtless Brendan. Not for the Weak of Stomach.Driving to the beach.Path to Strathmere, through the dunes.I love how this photo caught him mid-air.Cold Water!!I really like this shot,

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Bush is not Hitler.While there is a certain religious fervor and hatred of the infidel other among many of his supporters, Bush and his backers, and by backers I mean those with the money, are not Nazis.They are rather a variety of fascists, in which the interest of the corporation is the interest of the state, in which anxieties over religion, race, and sexuality are fanned into a flaming

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Melissa got some money for consulting and is getting driving lessons! Whoo-hoo!!I can't WAIT to have one less thing to complain about.

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A few months ago I experiemented with a template provided by Matt, formerly of Tattered Coat. Things worked for a while, but I had some issues with graphics spilling over the sidebar. I may experiment with that template again in the near future, but until I get it just right, I am going to enclose my text in blockquotes. Quotes that would ordinarily be blockquoted will receive bold italic tags

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We all know about my obsession with For Better or For Worse, and I wanted to take a moment to point out that the recent plotline, in which Lizzie will leave Paul "Dudley-Doo" Wright and head back to Milborough, is annoying the living bejesus out of me. I am actually really angry about this: the plotline is idiotic, and is expects the reader to empathize with the bad actor.A review: Lizzie, the

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I'll get into any post-visit depression later. Right now, I want to simply, and hopefully briefly, describe my evening and morning.We went to my friend Ryan's house for a cookout in Northern Liberties. I know Ryan from Drinking Liberally: he and his wife Amy have two boys about Sam's age. It was a really good time.Because Melissa's folks were unable to do the Syracuse run this month (and I have

Brendanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05780508013547903940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016846.post-1148924416443578372006-05-29T13:39:00.000-04:002006-05-29T13:40:35.196-04:00

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Happy Memorial Day,Or as it was originally known,Decoration Day,In honor of those who died,fighting, the Civil War.This Memorial DaySay a prayer or a rememberancefor those who died, because the President lied,for every PTSD,for every amputee, for the families of soldierswho come home in cargo planes,and those who never come home at all.So many have diedbecause the President lied.

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This site is awesome, and will be added to the blogroll. Go now.

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Sam and I were watching the closing credits of Thomas: Calling All Enginges again tonight, a story following the rivalry, and consequent reconciliation, of steam engines and diesel engines on the Island of Sodor, when I noticed that he was trying to say the words the chorus of British children were singing. When that failed he reverted to the way I always sing the [usually instrumental] theme

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From Carlin Romano:Hi, Brendan. I note your ironic (if not sarcastic) tone, but you're missing something. This was a scene piece about a panel at a convention, not about the industry as a whole. No one present spoke up for the left. You don't "balance" a report on a panel -- you just report what happened there. I respond: You don't "balance" a report on a panel -- you just report what happened

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h/t to Atrios for the link to this fine piece about Bill Frist Loves Gorillas.As some of you may know, I have a brewing side career submitting short porn pieces to Hustler Letters. I think MY version of the article is much better. But blame Atrios. He's the one who brought the link to my attention.Bill Frist: A Doctor at HeartBy Heywood JablomeWednesday, May 24, 2006; A21The houses were dark

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Mr. Romano,Your article on conservative publishing woes wasinteresting.I have noticed that it is common in journalism to give voice to an opposing point of view. For instance, when John Kerry claimed to be a "war hero", the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were given a platform to say that this wasn't true. For every talking head concerned about global warming, there is a representative from Exxon

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You'll find that Brendan Calling is a bit diverse: we do comics, complain about the baby mama and the emotional torment of being separated from your only child, and we occasionally photoshop an anus where Areln Specter's mouth should be.You'll have to scroll down for the hideous photos you've come to see.

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I just couldn't resist. What with Arlo and Janis doing it on the sofa (Arlo keeping a Norelco in the nightstand for that late night cunnilngus session as well), Ziggy marrying his pets, Michael going for a late night quicky while the kid's got a fever, it was time to address Yenny, which is SUCH a dirty strip.And pseaking of dirtiness, Lynn Johnson DOES know that "freakin'" is a pretty thin cover

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Cathy Guisewite, creator of the comic strip, Cathy.Skeletor, nemesis of He-Man.

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Sam is visiting this week! I'll have new pictures posted sometime later. We worked on the deck yesterday, went on a walk around the neoighborhood, and dug some new flower beds on the back yard. This weekend, I'm taking friday off and we're going out to New Jersey to visit my parents. Sam is also talking a lot more, and coming very close to complete sentences. He's also a lot bigger. It would

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Despite Pledge, Taxes Increase for TeenagersBy DAVID CAY JOHNSTONPublished: May 21, 2006The $69 billion tax cut bill that President Bush signed this week tripled tax rates for teenagers with college savings funds, despite Mr. Bush's 1999 pledge to veto any tax increase.Under the new law, teenagers age 14 to 17 with investment income will now be taxed at the same rate as their parents, not at

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Dear Arlen and Rick,I'd like to express my amazement at your votes to make English the official language of the United States and to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriage. What an incredible use of the people's time and money. I stand awestruck.Now that you've shown you can get important legislation moving, I'm hoping you'll turn your attention to piddling matters such as IT COST ME $180 TO

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-sigh-Brad Davis only has himself to blame for the obvious setup:

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Feingold, Specter clash over gay marriage"I don't need to be lectured by you. You are no more a protector of the Constitution than am I," Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., shouted after Sen. Russ Feingold declared his opposition to the amendment, his affinity for the Constitution and his intention to leave the meeting."If you want to leave, good riddance," Specter finished."I've

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Your taxes pay for it.You might as well look at what you're paying for.Apologies to those of you with weak stomachs.The preceding photos were taken in Abu Ghraib (and like those that follow, were taken with permission from After Downing Street.Talk about getting your ass blown off..."There's a higher Father that I appeal to." That's Mr. Bush's quote, according to Bob Woodward...... and that

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A Whiff of Smiff, is also added to the roll. Blogging has become a topic on the bluegrass-l, and I got a comment from Sharon on my MaryE announcement, so looked and now I'm linked. I dig Sharon's blog: funny stuff (Not a Good Gift is good 'un).Enjoy!

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This weeks For Better or For Worse was shaping up to be a real snore this week (instead of being the usual roller-coaster of excitement. Not.), but today's strip merits comment simply due to stupendously dim-witted leaps Lynn Johnson makes in her desperate search for a plot.Does this make any sense? "A cell-phone is like a gun."This is a cell-phoneThese are handguns.The only people I know who

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And Philadelphia is a city of fools.Watching the evening news last night, I saw that something like 72% of Philadelphians voted "yes" on a ballot question asking whether the City should consider placing surveillance cameras to prevent crime. This is a boondoggle. It will not work. Indeed, it was demonstrated in yesterday's Daily News that surveillance doesn't work.On Monday evening, I watched a

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With regard to the previous post, Sitemeter Oddities, Christina submits Not Gay.

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two referring sites, from my Sitemeter:Ridge Church Men's MinistriesandGuyBlogging.Odd.

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Whitney Houston was wrong. The children are not the future.George Orwell was right. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face -- forever." At least my faith in Specter wasn't shattered: I knew he'd roll.He still the same old corrupt cancerous colostomy bag he's always been.

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MaryE Yeomans is a frequent poster on the bluegrass list--serv I subscribe to. Like me, she writes long, descriptive pieces. Recently, she caught undeserved flack on the list from some loudmouth who disliked her style, and in sticking up for her, a number of peope suggested she start a blog. MaryE has done so: Travels With MaryE. I already love it and I'm sure you will too. I've added her to

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Moving to Philadelphia in January 1999 was the culmination of a really difficult year. I'd been with the same woman since 1992: both of us wildly dissatisfied with New Haven, Connecticut and the hole of crack, illy, and murder it was sinking into, we'd moved to Northampton Massachusetts together where I was enrolled at UMass, and where she began sending out applications to graduate school,

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Apparently, sending the better part of my disposable income to Canada for the privilege of seeing my son for a few days every other month is not good enough. I have been told I am "more and more hostile" and "difficult to talk to on the phone" with every day. This is the first I've heard of this. I go out of my way to be civil and engaging on the phone, and I am always honest and upfront when I

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This year, I am a little... what's the word... ambivalent about Mother's Day, a holiday I ordinarily pay no attention to or as little as possible. A card for mom, a phone call to grandma. For the past 2 years I would call up Canada and talk to Melissa, but I don't think that's on the agenda this year. Or next year either.This troubles me because I feel like I should set my anger aside and not

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Dear Rick,When you said "In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality", I was appalled.I apologize, Senator Santorum. You were right and I was wrong

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The floors are down; only a few more screws to completely secure it to the frame.Railings, staircase, pix tomorrow (today).

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Troi Torain, the disc jockey known by the name D.J. Star, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, the Manhattan district attorney's office said. Law enforcement officials had launched an investigation into his remarks on Thursday after reviewing a transcript of his recent rants about D.J. Envy and his family.Finally, they took these two schmucks off the air.Responsible people in

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"Michael Smerconish is a pussy. A big gaping pussy.He loves to talk tough from his comfortable reclining chair about death penalties and the war on terror - and how tough he would be in killing people. Yeah, I know, you're really tough. I'm sure Al Qaeda is quaking in its boots thinking about big, tough Smerconish.[snip]I'm so tired of hearing these big, bad conservatives try to characterize

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...but dude, your wife is a rectangle with breasts.And while I like munching box as much as the next guy, well maybe a little more,...was it reallynecessary for Arlo and his rectangular wife to go at it in the Friday comics? Get a room!

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"Those goddamn tenants and their "rights", always fucking it up for the rest of us.Those goddamn "rights" are what keeps me from raising the rent by 60%. If it wasn't for their "rights", I would save a bundle on heating because I'd keep the thermostat down to 40 degrees. If it wasn't for their "rights" I'd be able to listen in on their phones, just like the Pweznit.""Let's Lynch The Landlord"The

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The following is the transcript of President Bush's statement regarding domestic spying, as provided by Federal News Service.After September the 11th, I vowed to the American people that our government would do everything within the law to protect them against another terrorist attack. As part of this effort, I authorized the National Security Agency to intercept the international communications

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Mr. Cohen professed great anger with Mr.Clinton's infidelity during the 1990s.Odd reaction for a man who broke up Peter Jennigns marriage by having an affair with the guy's wife:Kati and Peter met in London in 1977 and were engaged after three dates. They married in 1979 and divorced in April, 1994. Their marriage was described as often turbulent. They separated from one another in 1987 for five

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Hard to keep up...This is a long one.After reading Richard Cohen's latest steamingoffering, I think I have finally grasped why it is heis so wrong on so many issues: the man is heavilyburdened with denying his complicity in the Iraq messthat he has turned to drugs or alcohol, and possiblyboth. How else to explain the feverish and incoherenttone of this morning's column, "A War WithoutWinners", in

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Tue, 22 Nov 2005"What's more, when Hussein Kamel was still a defectorand being debriefed in Jordan, he said he had noknowledge of a current nuclear weapons program. Iraq'suranium enrichment program -- a prerequisite for aweapons program -- had been dormant since the Gulf Warin 1991."But that's not what you said then Richard, remember?You kept saying the war was a GREAT idea, and you weretotally

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I have never been highly skilled with math, a personal trait that is personally embarrassing. A lot of my poor math skills comes from having poor teachers, and oddly enough aggravated by my father's mastery with numbers. Instead of explaining clearly why y=mx + b, my father woudl go on these long, all-encompassing lectures about everything numerical, beginning with why we use the numbers we use

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My mom had what's called a transient ischemic attack, which is also referred to as a "mini-stroke".A TIA is a "warning stroke" or "mini-stroke" that produces stroke-like symptoms but no lasting damage. Recognizing and treating TIAs can reduce your risk of a major stroke.Most strokes aren't preceded by TIAs. However, of the people who've had one or more TIAs, more than a third will later have a

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Well, not really, but new to me.Live By the Foma.Mr. Yellojkt dropped by via the comics curmudgeon. I like his site because: he likes Vonnegut, and links to Vopnnegut sites; he likes his dad's country music; he bicycles; and he has a link to the FOOBiverse, which is even more obsessed with For better or For Worse than I am.Visit his site. Enjoy it!

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March 30th post on Richard Cohen: "The Last Blue State Skeptic": or "Why Richard Cohen Can Lick My Schwetty Schwetty SchcrotumA schlemiel is taking his morning stroll when he happens upon a massive pile of what is obviously dogshit.The moron scratches his head. "Sure looks like shit."Sticks his nose in it. "Sure smells like shit."Squeezes the wet turd between his fingers. "Sure feels like shit."

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Mr. Black is having some fun with Richard "WATB" Cohen today. Atrios bested me yesterday with his Cohen's "Greatest Hits".Throughout the day, I will be republishing some recent letters about Mr. Cohen sent to his employers at the Washington Post. All letters were cc-ed to Richard, aka cohenr@washpost.com.Here's one in response to Wrongway Cohen's take on Roe versus Wade: Richard Cohen is a

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She had a minor stroke, something called a transient ischemic attack.

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I was SO hoping to get the time to rip the mental midget, drooling imbecile, and all-around nincompoop gelding known as Richard Cohen a new fartlocker after his prissy and predicatable whining about Stephen Colbert and his follow up column, entitled "Waah I am a Big Fucking Crybaby" about the mail he received in response, but things like deck-building and crying jags during Monster's Inc. got

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As i've mentioned before, sitemeter lets me know who's visiting, where't hey're coming from, who's referring them, etc.There are two superstars on my sitemeter: Susie Madrak, Suburban Guerilla whose piece, "Kill the Mouse" has netted me a slew of return visitors, and the Comics Curmudgeon whose commentors pushed me past 60 visitors today.If you haven't been to either site, you really should.

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I saw "Monsters, Inc." this weekend. Good flick. But let me just say this: what my ex did to me, by staying in Canada with my son, is fucking unforgiveable. Why?Dude, when the movie got the scene where Sully the monsters was tucking in the child, I started crying. I don't mean tugging on the heartstrings cute or anything, I mean I literally broke down and fucking wept because I miss my boy so

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For the last two weeks, I was working on a very long and very complicated proposal to the city's Office of Emergency Shelter and Services (OESS) for about $200,000 in emergency homeless funding. Onc you cut through the jargon, legalese, and disclaimers, the proposal is really quite simple: we will provide a minimum of 100 people with emergency funds to cover 1 month's rent, one month's back

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I took Monday, yesterday, off from work: the past two weeks have been really really long and stressful at the office, and I wanted to get some more work done on the deck.I had to go to Home Depot to pick up some joist nails, a couple of drill bits, and 5 bags of concrete (about 250 pounds). I loaded everything in the van and set off for the two next errands: the homebrew supply store at 19th and

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Oh, I get it: the baby's sick, it's around 2:30 in the AM, the hypersensitive downstairs are complainging AGAIN, and the little woman feels, in her words "exhausted and grimy. I feel terrible." You're standing around looking confused and helpless, hanging back while the wife consoles the second screaming of your screaming brats that she squished out of her vagina and puts the diseased little

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My housemate Nelson is a builder, so in exchange for free rent this month, we're building a deck out back. I didn't blog over the weekend (and barely checked my email) because I spent the weekend at Home Despot (among other hardware stores) and in the backyard.On Saturday, we spent most of the mornign and early afternoon buying lumber and other supplies, and spent the afternoon tearing down old

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I am in a depression right now.Oy it hurts.I'm going to put on theDelmore Brothers. This will actually make things worse, but not as bad as putting on Doc Watson. Not that there's anything wrong with Doc, the man is one of the nicest people I've had the privilege of meeting, but his voice brings on the blues like no one else can. Even his happy songs are blue.I wish I could explain the feeling.

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Cops eat donuts, not coffee cake. Even in Canada. ESPECIALLY in Canada, where you can't walk three feet without tripping over a Tim Hortons.The plotline in FBFW is getting pretty hairy for those of us traipsing along after Lynn Johnson's every-so-treacley fever dreams and hallucinations.If you haven't been reading, let me bring you up to speed.Last week, Michael's dad John went to Gordon Mayes'

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National Day of Slayer.h/t to Tim Kelly/Indieblack.This holiday goes right up there with Festivus.

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Despite pretension in the White House, today is NOT "Loyalty Day."Today is MAY DAY.So let's remember Joe Hill."Workers of the World, Awaken!"Written while Joe Hill was in prison, this song speaks to workers on an international level.Lyrics:Workers of the world, awaken!Break your chains, demand your rights.All the wealth you make is takenB y exploiting parasites.Shall you kneel in deep submissionF

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Around 2:00 this afternoon, I rode my bike up Baltimore Avenue to grab a cuppa coffee at the Satellite, a new place downstairs from Firehouse Bicycles at 50th Street. I crossed the trolley tracks at 49th and was riding past Cedar Park, when I saw group of four or five guys from the neighborhood in their mid-twenties playing cards or chess on the corner where Florence forks off from Baltimore. My

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I'm listenign to an interview with Gogol Bordello on NPR. When I was in UncleFucker, we opened for them once and they opened for us, both times at North Sixth in Williamsburg. Izzy and Eugene know each other pretty well (Izzy knows everyone, and is himself a freakin' rock star).That band was/is amazing. Gypsy punk. Hard polka. I don't know what to call it. They are ridiculously fun, and

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Go listen.Dear Mr. President."You don't know nothing about hard work." Indeed.I always did like Pink.

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Listen to Neil's new album for free here. Neil's made it available online for free. This is really good.Neil Young's "Hey Hey, My My (Electirc version)" was one of the first songs that really blew my mind. I was 11, maybe 12 years old. He's had some weak periods, but this is pretty freakin' super.

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Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the FBI is “investigating whether two contractors implicated in the bribery of former Rep. Randall ‘Duke’ Cunningham supplied him with prostitutes and free use of a limousine and hotel suites.” The Journal also said the investigators are exploring “whether any other members of Congress” are involved.-Think ProgressThe ring went on for The Wall

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I am fascinated by the Plame investigation, and my favorite Plame site is Firedoglake..Jane, Christy, and frequent guest-blogger Taylor are such incisive, witty, and altogether with-it writers.Bookmark, and visit often!

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Every American taxpayer would get a $100 rebate check to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote Thursday.However, the GOP energy package may face tough sledding because it also includes a controversial proposal to open part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...The energy package, sponsored by Sens.

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