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2014 archive

“Boardwalk Empire” 0

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QOTD 0

G. K. Chesterton:

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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Cooties 0

I’ve been wondering, ever since Mike Hucksterbee’s latest outburst, why Republicans are so a-skeered of lady parts.

Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, etc., pointing at little girl and saying

I’m guessing that Hucksterbee’s commments were a textbook example of projection.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Exercise courtesy in commerce:

The Howard County Police have confirmed that three people have been killed in a shooting at the Mall in Columbia. One of those killed is believed to be the shooter.

Police reported at 12:30 p.m that they are in the mall to clear people out safely and that the area is now believed to be secure.

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Bandwidth Restrictions 0

Sign the petition.

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The Galt and the Lamers 0

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School Spirit 0

The home-team coaches thought they had found a creative way to fire up their team: spray paint.

The scandal began with the discovery of vandalism on Nov. 1, 2013, when orange and black spray paint — South Pittsburg’s school colors — was used to scribble vulgarities on Marion County’s field house. The colors were intended to make it look like South Pittsburg Pirates supporters were the culprits.

The vandalism consisted of spray-painted words on the side doors and along the back of the school’s field house and a storage building and a concrete parking lot. Trash was scattered around the field house and derogatory names aimed at Marion County coaches and players, as well as a large “P” — South Pittsburg’s logo — were painted on the buildings.

I am getting closer and closer to concluding that American football is broken at every level of play.

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News, Ripped from the Ticker 0

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Dustbiter 0

I missed it last night. Another bank bit the dust.

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Meta: Feeds 0

I’ve added Juanita Jean’s Beauty Salon to the feeds, over there, on the sidebar, because, frankly, it rocks.

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QOTD 0

Josh Billings:

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.

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“But It Works” 0

Oh, no, it doesn’t.

One more time, “because you can” is not a sufficient reason for doing something.

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If the Shoe Fits . . . 0

. . . maybe you shouldn’t wear it.

A 28-year-old Burien woman was arrested Thursday after a burglary victim spotted the suspect wearing her stolen clothes the day after her house was broken into.

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Everybody Must Get Fracked 0

Wait for it.

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Gadsden 2.0 0

Gadsden glag updated:

Via BartCop.

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“The Right To Laugh” 0

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What Goes Around 0

Predictably, those who wish to persecute persons for being express outrage that Attorney-General Herring has jumped out of the persecution parade by deciding not to defend Virginia’s constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

They are claiming that he must, just must, defend any state law, just (as my mother used to say) because.

Mr. Herring, though, has found precedent for not doing so, deliciously citing one of their own.

“The Attorney General is the Commonwealth’s lawyer,” Obenshain (Mr. Herring’s opponent in the recent election–ed.) said in a statement. “It is deeply inappropriate for the Attorney General to use state resources to actively oppose a duly ratified constitutional amendment.??

Responding to such complaints, Herring said he is upholding his constitutional duty. He also said there is well-established precedent of Virginia attorneys general declining to defend certain state laws. An example he cited is Cuccinelli’s decision last year not to defend a law allowing the state to take over failing schools.

Heh, I say, heh indeed.

Snark aside, this is Virginia, not Massachusetts.

I again commend Mr. Herring for his political courage.

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The Media Abhors a Vacuum 0

Delaware Liberal explains the rise of Hey! Rubio!.

He’s the flavor of the month.

The media needs a mainstream Republican to talk about. They need to pretend that the two parties are roughly equivalent in common sense and rationality.

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Does This Mean the End of “Candyland”? 0

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QOTD 0

Mario Cuomo:

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things.

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