If I missed something please let me know. 4/4 The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics - Warner Bros. 4/11 Built to Spill – You In Reverse – Warner Bros Calexico – Garden Ruin – Quarterstick Parts & Labor – Stay Afraid – Jagjaguwar/Brah Eagles...
Painfully slowly, the pages are getting the touch-ups they need to make them presentable in this high-profile election season. Not all of them are done, and even those that are, aren't "done" — but I thought I'd let you know what...
The man recently praised by Robert Pinsky as showing "ambition and scope", R. David Macey, will return to our fair town in a mere matter of hours. Mothers, hide your comely daughters, lest his aforementioned scope extend to them. Everyone...
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows...
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or to help you figure out who you are or who you...
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE TWO DUCK HUNTERS FROM WISCONSIN? ABSOLUTELY A TRUE STORY HEARD ON A WISCONSIN RADIO STATION REPORTING ON THE INCIDENT. A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00 (with monthly payments of $560.00). He and a friend...
Ideas for anyone who wants them There's probably a little too much assumption or presumption (whichever it is) that these ideas are actually good enough for someone to really want to do them, but that's a risk I am willing to...
...is to take out this two-bit, banana-republic, anti-Semitic, megalomanicial blow-hard. If I believed for one second that his leftist, Marxist/socialist schtick was even halfway genuine, I'd just criticize him for being an incompatent, grandiose, self-important, Latin American strongman like everyone...
today. I don't know whether the recipient is at the address I found or whether he's on the road, so I don't know when he'll get it. It feels kind of weird. I don't really know him, and I...
When I was single, he always came to court He used to bring me flowers and he always was a sport Now I am married and well, what do you think He bought me an apron and he showed me to the sink? Oh...
...there's uncomfortable Cognitive Dissonance. I cashiered for a former adjunct professor and current colleague of The Dude's this Saturday, and it's interesting how she kept apologizing for making me help her though all her decisions while ringing her out. It's...
“The old man held in his hands a small, clay cup. He watched tendrils of steam dissipate into the surrounding air. “It’s gonna rain.” He said abruptly. ...
“As I leaned with my left arm upon the shore, I looked apprehensively at the men surrounding me. Water dripped down from my disheveled hair. I was nearly overcome with fatigue from just trying to survive. And...
and the hits keep on coming, from an article in the Maine Press-Herald today: The gender gap in college enrollment is sparking nationwide concern. But what happens once students arrive on campus gets comparatively little attention, even though statistics show that men...
Just a quick link to an article about the gender gap in education. This Week In Education: Hip Hop Isn't The Only Reason for the Gender Gap: Schools Are If you have other resources, please let me know. Here's a graphic that shows...
[Note: See also my post here. And this post links to audio from a sermon delivered by St. John. This post links to photos of St. John's incorrupt relics. A record of St. John's intercessions...
Via John at AmericaBlog who observed, "the thought of flipping somebody off in church, minutes after receiving the Eucharist, is just, well, beyond shocking, insulting, infuriating." What is going on witih these people? First Cheney drops the f-bomb in the...
Campaign says Harris won't turn to inheritance!And with that contradiction of everything she's been shrieking for a week, the Katherine Harris campaign became ... well... an even bigger joke than it was before... she's got Jomentum now!!!!She's melting, she's melting!Harris...
City Council members Duke Franklin and Jack Benson, along with Mayor Ron Littlefield and Federal Judge Bernie O'Brien, told the newly organized City Personnel Task Force last week that they support shifting employee personnel appeals away from the council. According...
When Stacey Hunter’s kitchen caught fire on March 20, she called 911. But no one answered. It was break time. “You've got four people supposed to be dispatching and three people on break,” Hunter told the Associated Press’ Bill Poovey....
Prediction: Al Gore Will Be Elected President in 2008 (from Jon Ponder at the Pensito Review).And then this from Time Magazine:The signs suggest an anti-Republican wave is building, says nonpartisan electoral handicapper Stuart Rothenberg, whose Rothenberg Political Report is closely...
Last week, the Chattanooga City Council passed an ordinance -- because that's what they love to do -- banning street vendors from our newly awesomitized waterfront. Councilwoman Sally Robinson said without the legislation "we could wind up with people selling...
So yes, things have been quiet here at The PulseBlog. An intense group writing project for this week's print edition has diverted much of our available blogging time over the last few days. But have no fear, oh seven readers of...
Gay bashing? Woman hating? Hmm...that doesn't describe me. Apparently someone thinks that Republicans are this which is unfortunate. Do I hate gays? No. You love the person and hate the sin. Do I...
The really sad part of all this is the small minority of folks, will say "They don't belong here, They are not Americans." The three fingers pointing back at you have native american blood all over them. The very same frightened...
Time Magazine reported this week that if the election were held today, Republicans would lose 15 Congressional seats thus losing control of the House, and within 1 or 2 seats of losing the Senate. Time also reported...
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