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Truth is the First Casualty of Politics

Posted in Current Events, Education, Foreign Policy, History and Recollections, Politics, War on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

That’s a paraphrase of an old saying of indeterminate origin about truth and war.
We’ll soon have an opportunity to observe the paraphrased adage in action. John McCain has established a Truth Squad in reaction to  comments by retired four-star general and Obama advocate, Wesley Clark. Below is one comment Clark made on an interview on [...]

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My Personality

Posted in Communities, Current Events, Humor, North Bay on June 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I tried Facebook’s My Personality application today. Actually, it isn’t a Facebook application but a third-party program.
The app says the personality test was constructed by a team of professional psychologists. I tried five times to take the test but each time I clicked the test page, the program flickered and labored mightily and then returned [...]

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Legends of Summer

Posted in Current Events, Humor, Politics on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This is a site you may like. The main page is Snopes.com, a site dedicated to urban legends. And as we all know, urban legends are kind of like politicians–inescapable.
One page that caught my eye was about Barack Obama. I wondered what is floating around about him out there in the ether.
Here are a few [...]

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Thugs 1 People 0

Posted in Crime, Current Events, Freedoms, History and Recollections, Politics on June 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »

By now, we know that the Supreme Court by a 5 to 4 margin has ruled that a Washington, D.C. city law banning handguns is unconstitutional. The ruling will have a nationwide impact, and the National Rifle Association (NRA) has already announced its intent to file lawsuits to overturn similar laws elsewhere.
One of NRA’s targets [...]

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Irreverent Humor

Posted in Celebrities, Current Events, History and Recollections, Human Nature, Religion, War on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

George Carlin and Mark Twain had a lot in common. Both decried hypocrisy and both vigorously attacked the hypocrisy they saw in organized religion.
One of Carlin’s classic routines was this one, a to-the-point, meant-to-shock revelation about a Biblical deity from his perspective.
Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man — living [...]

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Resurrection

Posted in Age, Celebrities, Communities, Crime, Current Events, Humor, Multicultural Influences, Politics on June 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I thought Don Imus was dead. If he isn’t, he sure looks like it.
When I watched him on television a couple of days ago ’splainin’ his comment about the long rap sheet of Adam “Pacman” Jones, I would have sworn that I was watching a set of empty clothes with a mop sticking out of [...]

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The Outdoorsy Type

Posted in Age, Current Events, Demographics, History and Recollections, Humor, News Media, Politics, Power on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In 2004, Chris Matthews observed that Americans have always elected outdoorsy presidents.
He cited a few examples of the type he was talking about, men like Clinton, Truman, and Reagan. He called these presidents physically healthy-looking guys.
Then he named Dukakis and Mondale as classic losers and called them indoor types.
The meaning of a word like outdoorsy [...]

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