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May 15, 2008

Quitting

The Austin Chronicle is reporting that:
Saturday night, Tim Mahoney and [Speaker of the House Tom Craddick crony] Harrison Keller qualified for a runoff election in the race for Austin Community College Board of Trustees, with the former getting 48.5% of the vote and the latter taking 33%. Today, Keller decided to withdraw . . . […]

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July 6, 2007

I Know I Can’t

According to the latest Gallup Poll, conducted Monday and Tuesday of this week, nearly three out of four Americans can no longer believe this shit.
In addition to the 73 percent of poll respondents who described this shit as “beyond belief,” 9 percent said they could “hardly” believe this shit, with another 5 percent “just barely” […]

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June 28, 2007

Indoctrinating Children, Christian-Style

Excellent New Yorker journalist George Packer writes an insightful post about his visit to the new Creation Museum in Kentucky:
The simulation serves a primitive ideology known as “young-earth creationism,” which promote the idea that the earth is just over six thousand years old and that the fossil record appeared after the Flood, around 4300 B.C. […]

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June 25, 2007

The Prince of Bel-Air

And this is the rest of the story:

[Hotel Tango: Monday Night Poker Host Keith]

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June 21, 2007

Free Jello Shots for First 100 Visitors!

I received this e-mail from the Fort Hood Post Exchange (PX) earlier this week:

BOOK SIGNING
JENNA BUSH
COMING SOON TO THE

CLEAR CREEK PX

JENNA WILL BE AT THE PX SIGNING HER NEW BOOK:
“ANA’S STORY”

JENNA BUSH BIO:
Jenna Bush is the daughter of President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush. She graduated from the University of […]

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June 7, 2007

Revolutions

“This is pointless! This is ridiculous! Isn’t it clear to you yet: you are starting what is called — a revolution!”
“Yes, a revolution! Why is it ridiculous?”
“Ridiculous — because revolutions aren’t possible. Because our — I am talking, not you — our revolution was the last. And there cannot be any more revolutions . . […]

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