in the afternoon i used technorati to find more info on scandal dvd so i could post it into politics and scandals. and this is one of the first results i found a a woman. duh. irans parliament on wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to the death penalty for persons convicted of working in to the internet and released on a black market dvd becoming a fullblown iranian sex tape sc...
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people are always asking me to write more often well here you go i searched for some info on individual health. at first glance an avantgarde diagnostic technique might seem to have little in common with a beancounter topic like insurance an individual and tell her or him you have genes like churchill. dont worry about a thing. source gene scans and single payer health insurance sha...
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last night i used technorati to find more info on over reduce fat.. and this is one of the first results so yesterday liss sent me the link to this story courtesy of reader tabitha who astutely noted i feel the emphasis was on how fat people are liars. the deal is this turns out eating a lowfat highveggie diet does not reduce the risk of breast cancer returning. a government study which ...
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last night i used technorati to find more information on yazoo.. and this is one of the first results wow. the slug has it right. yaz the low dosage birth control pill does draw a lot of inspiration from the synthpop band of the same name poor speller. for you only a 1982 yazoo performance on cheggers. keep an eye out for the rouge source is this really respect for an 80s icon canu...
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in the afternoon i used google to find more information on order of the phoenix.. and this is one of the first results michael lee of the washington post the new orleans hornets allstar point guard spent thursday afternoon with michael jordan carmelo anthony and hundreds of children at a boys girls club in slidell la. where the jordan brand shoe company donated 500000 to build an outdoor playg...
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nevermind. the site is still hosed and keeps collapsing like a flan in a cupboard. its only up because im rebooting the server but it will just keep crashing. so just head on over to the old site until we get sorted. as you can see were back up. the list of posts from the hurricane party over at the old blogspot blog is below in case you missed anything. our server was hacked it should be func...
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part seven in an ongoing series part one. part two. part three. part four. part five. part six. reuters does a 240word story including headline on moroccan un peacekeepers in the ivory coast being suspended amid sex abuse charges including having sex with a large number of underage girls which is at best statutory rape. guess what word never appears once shocking i know. soldiers who are found g...
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shakesville is now back up and running again.a w00t.......
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it happened again. to shakes. again. the thing with the rabid right when they cannot play fair and by the rules they resort to wildass cheating. think florida in 2000 or ohio in 2004. if they cannot win an argument on merit they go on attack. today it is shakes tomorrow it might be mps. i am spartacus. we all are spartacus.......
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you may have seen the blog post about the brazilian ad campaign for a brand of fatfree yogurt ugh bleah ack ptoo featuring the horror of what women or at least famous actresses in famous roles might look like if they ate real food instead. the ad campaign is how to say dumb. its also inspired a fair number of ill be in my bunk responses clearly not intended by the suits.if not its here. anyway b...
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suddenly you weigh less than you ever have before and your friends tell you they really notice and things are supposed to be so great except theyre not and things are so strange. kelly wonders what it is she is afraid of.we know shauna is amazing. and then she goes and shows us all over again she knows shes done and fit and healthy and as gorgeous as ever and she doesnt let a saleslady tell h...
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admittedly i dont read too many nongolf blogs. its a time issue mostly. one i do like to read is shakesville. while its success and readership dwarfs that of this humble blog i only discovered it recently thanks to the addition of contributor william k. wolfrum the strapping golf blogger i also read over at worldgolf and on his own site. wolfrum recently posted a brief qa on shakesville featurin...
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ive gone back and forth in my assessment of the democratic congress willingness to send bush an iraq spending bill on the terms he dictated. faced with the realities of horsetrading and chitcounting in committee rooms versus the intransigence of the bubbleboy decider guy im not sure i see how anything could have gone differently. but it still doesnt feel very good. whats humiliating is that...
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via shakesville so many fort lewis soldiers are being killed in iraq the army base will no longer hold individual memorial services. starting next month fort lewis says it will hold one memorial a month for all the dead soldiers.......
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the big news this morning on the 08 presidential race is that fred thompson has decided to officially jump in to the race. thompson is in the process of forming a presidential committee and beginning a fundraising effort. his advisers say that he will make a formal announcement during the 4th of july weekend. thompson who has been fueling speculation of a republican presidential bid by travelin...
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reading the latest harpers magazine i was most struck by one of the 11 prescriptive articles theyd commissioned on the theme of undoing bush that is correcting the six years and likely eight before the nightmare is over of corruption malfeasence incompetence cronyism and every other symptom of bad government one can see in the current administration. the overall message and sadly i cant find a...
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last year i wrote my mostread single article for my previous blog a bit titled rednecks white power and blue states. i did some follow up pieces on the subject and generally had a very favorable response thanks. however all it took was a single quote of a notreallysaidby statement of a dead confederate to reignite the bigotry vitriol and ignorance of a vast number of people. these are some rather ...
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so maggie gyllenhaal had the audacity to breastfeed her new baby in public without any sort of covering over her boob. i couldnt help thinking about the reproduction sexuality and the law class i took my second year. there was a great discussion on breastfeeding in public in which a fair majority of the class including some folks i was surprised by were pretty cool with it. however there were ...
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via shakesville a hilarious rant on pachelbel and his eponymous canon in d.......
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in the process of cleaning house round these parts ive updated my blogroll and made some additions.a heres a roundup of the new linkage my fellow beer geeks have been busya chris started up a new blog called the nonprofit dad jim has come back from blogging hiatus with he writes about words and jason comes at the blogosphere with circle and squares.a athese of course in addition to mikes ridehors...
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in two very different examples online communities have dealt with the idea that communities can set reasonable norms. ill be covering only the first in this post.the first example is online negativity harassment especially against female bloggers ranging fromnamecalling through slutshaming to rape threatstod eaththreat s. angry statements have been made against women bloggers who made their femalenes...
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wolfrum a new contributor at shakesville formerly shakes sis has with a single entry propelled himself to the farthest reaches of my shit list imaginable. only children and the mentally ill lie so blatantly to get whatever they want. what. the. frack. frankly im too pissed off to write though i will pause to explain one thing. i make the claim over there that this a fatally slanderous commen...
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