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Archive for February, 2006

It Has Come To My Attention

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

That there is a German-language penguin webcam site.
If you speak German and love penguins, it’s probably the best thing ever. As I don’t speak German, but do love penguins, it comes in pretty high but not “the best” because I really can’t understand a damn thing those Krauts are saying.
Via On The Rocks, a […]

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Things I Never Thought I Would Hear

Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Today in the grocery store, whilst picking up some bachelor chow, I observed a mother resolving a dispute between what I presume were two of her children, both female. From what I could gather in the few minutes we were in the frozen foods section, it seems child-the-older-and-taller had referenced child-the-younger-and-shorter by saying “hey […]

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Dear Racist Half-Wits In Congress,

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Please stop mucking about with this Dubai Port World deal. If you’d actually pay any attention to anything other than the fact that the United Arab Emirates is in the Middle East and has “Arab” in its name you’d note that it’s exactly the sort of moderate place we’d like other Middle Eastern nations […]

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I Am Powered By Hatred

Monday, February 6th, 2006

Just like the Federal government to go screwing up a perfectly well-functioning system. The nut graphs:
According to this definition, an applicant must “express interest” in the job, whether by sending in a resume, applying on the company’s site, or whatever other means the company requests, says Gerry Crispin, founder and principal of CareerXRoads and […]

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