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How To Hurt Me

Friday, November 24th, 2006

I went to see the new Bond flick yesterday, on account of having today off from banking, and the movie was preceded by a preview for the new Will Smith venture. It seems like a pretty compelling film, really, but — though

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FCC? FU!

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Dear the FCC,
F U!.
No Love,
Tim
[Via Rogier Von Bakel]

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I wasn’t going to post about this, because it’s fairly grade-school, but I’ve been a reader of, and regular commenter on, JMPP for a couple of years. I generally like her blog, although of late it’s been mostly boring and about dating a poker player, breaking up with a poker player, playing poker, deciding […]

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With sexy dancing by cheerleaders already banned by legislative decree, the Arlington ISD has gone after cleavage in the classroom. Because, presumably, when you allow randy teenagers to stare at a little bit of breast during school the terrorists have won. Money quote:
“It’s gotten bad enough that, unfortunately, our young males are looking […]

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Oh My…

Saturday, July 29th, 2006

Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Thanks Google!

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I blog purely for my own amusement, so I don’t have much to add to the whole Jerome Armstrong-Kos-Astrology-Stockpumping thing, but the comments on that linked post at TNR and this one in which Zengerle admits to making a really bone-headed mistake go fairly quickly to the dogs. Not the most vicious I’ve seen […]

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Only in Tejas

Monday, April 17th, 2006

It is a known fact that I, well, I’m kind of a jerk, at least to strangers. I’m okay with this.
I also have a very, very low tolerance for children acting up in public. I’ve told parents to keep control of them, I’ve told kids to shut up, I’ve talked to managers to have children […]

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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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WWB Is Correct

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

The latest episode of South Park was, in fact, 22 minutes of pure genius. If you didn’t see it, WWB’s post is here.
Special message to any Scientologists who might be reading: your “religion” is a cult, you are all morons, and I can’t stop laughing at how many high-school-dropout-actors buy, quite literally, into that […]

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