Happy Birthday America (1 image)
Jul 04 2005, 23:38 EDT
[draft, I'll add more pics and stories tomorrow] What better way to celebrate than spending a few days in "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire (instead of "Live Free or Here" Massachusetts). Boating, Fishing, Horseshoes, Grilling, Drinking, and of course,
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RE: Let's Start Putting People In Jail
Jun 29 2005, 22:15 EDT [updated Jun 29 2005, 22:33 EDT]
A couple days after the Presidential election I said the Republicans won and they should start putting people in jail. I didn't care if it was R's or D's throwing people in jail, just that lots and lots of people committed run-of-the-mill voter fraud and
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Your week in Quickies
Jun 29 2005, 09:02 EDT
Cameraphone Sandcastle [bobsalive] Jun 27 2005, 21:30 EDT People are so very odd.
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'Das Experiment' - Compelling German Cinema
Jun 29 2005, 02:19 EDT [updated Jun 29 2005, 02:27 EDT]
Das Experiment is a must rent movie for fans of human behavior and/or German cinema. I only count myself in the first category, for what it is worth (or FWIW in netish shorthand). It is now showing on STARZ so for many readers it just costs two hours i
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Our Man In the North (4 images)
Jun 24 2005, 23:52 EDT [updated Jun 25 2005, 00:08 EDT]
Everyone says blogs should do more original reporting, so we here at jackdied have produced our own foreign correspondent. mulletsalive has spent the last several months preparing for an infiltration into the Great White North and will be posting his obs
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Chickenhawk
Jun 23 2005, 13:40 EDT [updated Jun 25 2005, 00:16 EDT]
ChickenHawks A wonderful list of republicans who didn't serve their country. My main problem with this list is the definition of Chickenhawk. A liberal can never be a chickenhawk since they are for the most part anti-war. But on the conservative s
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Your week in Quickies
Jun 21 2005, 15:51 EDT
Nun bound to cross, gagged in apparent exorcism [teddied] Jun 21 2005, 11:35 EDT Insert wild conspiracy theory for actual reason Nun wa
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Ground Zero Memorial Fight Continues
Jun 21 2005, 10:30 EDT
Monday's WSJ had letters to the editor from several principals in the fight over the World Trade Center memorial (see Jeff Jarvis update here). The "International Freedom Center" is accused of being a bash-America monument overshadowing the 9/11 memoria
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TSA, yo ay yo
Jun 13 2005, 23:34 EDT [updated Jun 13 2005, 23:45 EDT]
So I was getting on a plane in Philly and I was caught with a lighter in my carryon. I knew I was smuggling a lighter, but it was in the other bag - I had one by accident in my other carryon. Either way I didn't think they could see the tiny piece of t
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Your week in Quickies
Jun 13 2005, 13:30 EDT
Family Guy Blog [bobsalive] Jun 13 2005, 13:29 EDT The creators of the cartoon write stuff, and it's fairly regularly updated. Didn't s
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100 Greatest Americans
Jun 09 2005, 20:49 EDT [updated Jun 09 2005, 22:11 EDT]
NB Top update: there is no greater incentive to abolish public education than this list of 100 Greatest Americans. Apparently this was some kind of a poll. Partial post, we're only up to #75 on The Discovery Channel on the way down to #1. Mighty anger
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The Downing Street Memo
Jun 08 2005, 00:48 EDT [updated Jun 08 2005, 01:06 EDT]
The lefty blogs have been a flutter recently with a memo that nails the Bush & Blair administrations in a conspiracy to fake the WMD issue. The Bushies knew Iraq didn't have WMDs at all in 2002, quoting from the full memo: what were the consequences, i
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Jargon that isn't as common as you think (1 image)
Jun 08 2005, 00:12 EDT [updated Jun 08 2005, 11:56 EDT]
"Middle School Dance" has a specific meaning in software. It is where two computers are willing and eager to communicate but each one is waiting for the other to initiate the exchange. Visualize a gym with boys on one side and girls on the other. I was
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