Monthly Archives: August 2007

Never underestimate the power of denial

Just when I thought we’d have to watch another Michael Vick “mea culpa,” alas, time; she bears all fruit.
Larry Craig, the pseudo-republican from Idaho, offered today his own brand of potato-justice. After eight months of alleged harrassment from the the local media, Mr. Craig decided to jump fall on another sword by not only [...]

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Notes for Ubuntu 7.10

After a day of problems installing from CD, then wiping and reinstalling the current version, I spent the afternoon today upgrading my current Ubuntu 7.04 installation to 7.10 Tribe 5 from apt-get.  I have seen numerous posts (including directly on Ubuntu’s site) suggesting that using “sudo apt-get -c -d” will automatically provide the option to [...]

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It’s about doing your duty, not choosing a “career path,” Mitt….

I’ve been chewing on this recent transaction for some time now, when I finally had my Eureka! moment, to wit, Mitt’s comments about his five sons’ anti-nationalist, opposing “career paths.” To him and his five, ungrateful boys, as a Republican-generated sectarian talking point, “you’re welcome.” After all, I didn’t spend six years as [...]

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Cut-n-run Karl

Wow, I never thought I’d see the biggest opponent of the phrase “cut-n-run,” cutting and running from his skeletons on Capitol Hill. So much for Republican loyalty and persistence. Republicans ought to re-think their motto versus their behavior.
And really, Bush (and the previous, Republican controlled Congress) plunged us all into a nearly trillion [...]

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New botox procedure

Earlier this week, a local woman went in for botox treatment, then left without paying.  And to top it off, she posted $2500 bond, more than three times the cost of the treatment…good call.

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