April 25, 2006

You knew it was coming, and here it is right on time. The Republicans are scared of losing control of the House and Senate because…

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April 17, 2006

Reading this entry at Yahoo! News about a Temple University prof’s multi-year Starbucks-based modern culture research project, the only thing that struck me as amazing…

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April 13, 2006

Liquid Cereal - The BevNET.com Review “With a slight thickness to its body, this product also feels somewhat like cereal in your mouth. The greenish…

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April 10, 2006

Christian Evangelicals are taking their intolerance of homosexuals (Editors’s Note: Lance Arthur is a professional homosexual) to the courts in order to make it legally…

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April 5, 2006

Maybe it’s just me, and maybe I’ve watched too much West Wing over the years and can’t separate drama from politics (not that there’s much…

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April 4, 2006

Muji, the un-design company (no labels, no colors, no nothing) is sponsoring their first MUJI AWARD International Design Competition The theme is “sumi,” and they…

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April 4, 2006

Everyone seems to be all aflutter about tonight’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, but is anyone else worried/excited about June 6th? After all, the…

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April 4, 2006

High fuel costs are eating the airlines alive, causing the already in-bankruptcy fliers to go deeper into the red, and the just-making it guys to…

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April 4, 2006

The Gay Games happen every four years, just like all teh other celebrations of athletic prowess, only with more style. One doesn’t have to be…

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April 4, 2006

And you thought you felt good? A 37-year-old man in England has consumed 40,000 ecstasy tablets over the course of 9 years, starting at a…

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April 4, 2006

A Tupelo, Mississippi-based Christian-themed organization of far-far-right minded individuals is peeved at Wal-Mart for actually selling “Brokeback Mountain” on DVD. The American Family Association, representing…

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March 3, 2006

Finally, I am saved through the power of Jesus and Betty Bowers. And also, the unavoidable evidence concerning the President’s “homosexual tendencies.” A Constitutional Amendment…

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February 20, 2006

George Holliday was the man who videotaped the beating of Rodney King 15 years ago. Then the LAPD officers involved were acquitted of all charges,…

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February 4, 2006

Incredibly, incredibly, incredibly, incredibly offensive. And also: hilarious….

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February 1, 2006

Somebody sure is pissed off, but not, perhaps, at whom you may think. Then again, with things the way they are politically in this country,…

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January 30, 2006

It is not enough, apparently, to be able to sit in your car and avoid walking the extra steps and using the extra energy required…

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January 30, 2006

Oy. This Washington Post article details some of the pending legislation (36 bills in 18 states) that would allow care providers, and in light of…

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January 27, 2006

Am I the only one who finds this headline suspiciously hilarious? …

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January 23, 2006

Remember that show that ABC was supposed to show last year, about the families in Austin, Texas who had to choose between six other families…

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January 22, 2006

In the neverending battle to get faster Internet access to your house, the titans wielding the fiber are proposing an interesting alternative to higher fees…

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January 22, 2006

Another thing I had no idea was going on but suddenly now, knowing about it, it all makes perfect sense, particularly in this city of…

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January 22, 2006

‘Contradiction in human affairs, such as the possibility that injustice can drive people to do horrible things, is routinely deplored and dismissed in these troubled…

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January 19, 2006

I have to say that I love Choire’s latest web site design. Minimalism has always been Google’s forte on the Web, but I think Mr….

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January 19, 2006

What do you know about Dubai? Do you know where it is, or what’s going on there, or that it’s become the center of the…

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January 19, 2006

You think you’ve got problems? Consider the neighbors of Don Bertone, who played police radio broadcasts, Spanish dance tunes and “shrill oscillating tones” at all…

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January 4, 2006

Apparently, those of us who think we’re happier having made the decision that the last thing we need to add to our lives is a…

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January 4, 2006

Having worked in the online marketing field for the past five years and having also managed to escape with the tattered remnants of my deep…

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January 4, 2006

I have a feeling that if you’re ever stuck for a name that will really stump the rest of the bar when it comes time…

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January 4, 2006

The new Dodge Challenger “concept” looks exactly - exactly - like it just rolled off the assembly line circa 1971. Round headlights and all. Since…

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December 23, 2005

I’ll have to rethink my ideas of a bad travel day after reading this story about the passengers of an Air India flight from Los…

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December 18, 2005

How are you going to spend the long hours of nothingness after the presents have been opened and you’ve sung your carols and drank your…

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December 17, 2005

Interesting story from the New York Times (although I’m linking CNET News.com instead, so no one has to register) about the man who invented the…

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December 12, 2005

In case you don’t check out the other Lance Arthurcentric web site (or, more precisely, one of the others), I posted an old chestnut in…

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