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With the spectre of mandatory health insurance looming in the shadows, Miriam has decided that we probably shouldn’t have mandatory auto insurance either:
I have car insurance, because I own assets, including property. I can’t afford to be sued. Poor people, however, don’t ...
Congress
Motor Trend (January) reports the following gee-whiz feature on the 2011 Infiniti M37/M56:
Inside, the M offers Forest A/C, which provides humidity control, a breeze mode that alternates airflow for a more natural feeling, and auto recirculation that detects dust and foul odors, then ...
Congress
Charles Gonzalez
Shepard Fairey evidently believes in repurposing content:
But this is, in fact, precisely what the musician in question requested:
Rather than just get an artist to spoof the picture like so many others have done, Biafra went to Fairey himself. “We’ve known each other for ...
Congress
Charles Gonzalez
I thought about going back through the archives and renumbering all of these, but it just didn’t seem like the scientific thing to do, you know?
“lying sack of shit” lss: Demonstrating the value of the three-letter acronym (TLA).
hallmark fart coin dish-i ...
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Well, okay, the rain stopped before the tipoff, but the Rockets kept coming. Twenty-two seconds in, Etan Thomas gave Luis Scola a thwap that resulted in stitches, but the Rockets kept coming. the Thunder put together a nine-point lead by halftime, but the Rockets kept coming. In the end, Rick ...
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This Economist piece is tapped by Fausta to explain “socialist production principles” in the Venezuela of Hugo Chávez:
Venirauto’s cars are rehashes of clapped-out 1980s models from the imperialist West. The Turpial, a five-door hatchback, is based on the Ford ...
World
Iran
Hugo Chávez
Venezuela
By most accounts, Thomas Crapper did not actually invent the flush toilet, but he did sell rather a lot of them in England, incorporating the latest improvements, which he may or may not have invented .
“Crapper” itself, as a surname, seems to be a variation on ...
Law
Clarence Thomas
The question: is that a noun with a descriptive adjective, or a verb with a subject?
From a conversation between Francis W. Porretto and Duyen Ky :
[T]his is the way our minds work: we remember our past, we hope for our future, but we squeeze all our actual living in between them. A ...
Congress
General David Petraeus
Australian Robert Townshend interrupts his study of bamboo for this observation:
On the subject of commercial achievement, one wonders why great corporations, and Hollywood studios amongst them, seem to have such scorn for the extraordinary entrepreneurs who made their corporations and ...
World
“I’ve got so much on my plate,” said Anna Nicole Smith in 2003 of her busy work schedule, “that I’m probably gonna die at 37 like Marilyn .”
She was 36 at the time. Anna Nicole, I mean.
She would have been 42 today. I have to think she’d still be ...
Congress
Charles Gonzalez
Lamar Smith
August Horch founded the car company that bore his name in 1899. He left it ten years later and set up another firm with the same name, only different: the German word horch is the imperative form of hoeren, “to hear.” In Latin: Audi. In 1932, the Auto Union company was formed, a ...
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Joe Wilson
Some web poll purports to list the Top 20 Guitar Riffs , and it’s probably not as arguable as it could have been; I don’t know if I’d put Hendrix’ grinder from “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)” at the very top, but then again, most of what Jimi did wasn’t ...
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Chile
Charles Gonzalez
Curb appeal, like sex appeal, can trap the unwary :
Our present shelter was sold to us because Mr Charm liked the the double green doors and the green trim at the front entrance. I liked the big screened in porch adjoining the patio. I could just imagine it filled with charming wicker ...
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the bigger Donny Osmond fans in blogdom, here’s The...
Donald himself, hoofing it with The Insider host Lara Spencer: I mean, the man has done Broadway , fergoshsakes. You should have known he could dance up a storm. © 2009 by Charles G. Hill. All rights ...
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It was a close one, and then suddenly it wasn’t close anymore. The Thunder had a one-point lead at halftime, 51-50, and then put together a 17-0 run that ate up more than half of the third quarter. The Bucks never got within ten again after that. Oklahoma City 108, Milwaukee 90, in front ...
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Tweeted this morning by Phil Bacharach:
Dear Santa, thanks for bringing back 105.3 The Spy. Not 2 be an ingrate, but can you improve its reception in OKC? That would be perfect
The elves at the FCC will shoot down that idea in a hurry, and the reason is something called Minimum Distance ...
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Beer snobs get on Stacy McCain’s nerves:
It pains me to see these poseurs pestering a bartender in quest of some obscure imported premium ale — dark as sin, with the flavor and texture of a peat bog — just so their friends won’t see them drinking a Bud.
I ...
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Engadget snarks over a new, um, gadget:
The high-end audio market has always been more about marketing than about music, but it’s hard to say if we’ve ever seen a product as phenomenally insane as the LessLoss BlackBody , a $959 block of plastic that designer Louis Motek says ...
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Charles Gonzalez
Some time in the last week I came up with what I thought was a reasonable idea: start phasing out the tranquilizers I’ve been taking for the last decade or so, on the not-all-that-arguable basis that I’m taking too many drugs, dammit, and it can’t be good for me. Since the ...
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The new D-League team in Frisco, Texas, north of Dallas and affiliated with the Mavericks, is looking for a name .
“14ers,” the name the team had when it was in Broomfield, Colorado, simply would not do here. I thought of “214ers,” which would fit nicely in Dallas, but ...
