Monthly Archives: January 2010

WTF?!

Posted on January 31, 2010 by

I’m not sure what this means: I’ll be interested to see how far Rickey gets with his campaign, but this seems pretty surreal.  Maybe I’m just out of touch.

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Are you gonna do something? Or just stand there and bleed?

Posted on January 30, 2010 by

Probably by now you’ve heard that President Obama had a nice little chit-chat with House Republicans yesterday. For an hour and a half. In front of television cameras. If you didn’t get a chance to see it, here’s a link … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 28, 2010 by

It might not make a lot of sense to do another post today, seeing as how I posted so late earlier…but I hate to leave an parenthetical open, so here you go. Mammoth has a great post on the best … Continue reading →

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(–Plus, SOTU Musings…

Posted on January 28, 2010 by

Finally, something to shake up the recent political chatter–more political chatter.  About the same chatter.  Still, I won’t say that I wasn’t impressed by some of the speech.  Obama was nicer than I like, but then, I’m a mean person, … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 26, 2010 by

I was hoping something exciting would happen today that would be worth writing about.  Maybe I missed it.  I can’t catch everything in Teh Google Reader. I never thought we’d get to the future without flying cars–this is even better. … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 26, 2010 by

I have no idea what’s going to happen today.  I’m still shocked that the haggis is back.  My world has been turned upside down. And then there’s this:  New law requires women to name baby, paint nursery before getting an … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 25, 2010 by

Haggis is back.  That’s right.  The H-A-double-G. Also, I haven’t ever done much with my graffiti interests on the Agenda…I might start.  This is probably the best place to do that. A pretty graph laying out the evolution of Crayola … Continue reading →

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A great wrong has been… um… righted.

Posted on January 25, 2010 by

This, from the Guardian (UK) today: Smuggled and bootlegged, it has been the cause of transatlantic tensions for more than two decades. But after 21 years in exile, the haggis is to be allowed back into the United States. (Emphasis … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 25, 2010 by

Hello work–erm, for some of you.  Meanwhile, I’ll go ahead and hold down the ol’ Interweb–make sure you don’t miss nothin’… I took a couple of days off of the Google Reader last week, and as usual, when I returned … Continue reading →

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Do Unto Others, Motherfucker.

Posted on January 21, 2010 by

First, a story (just stay with me here): It is late winter in Holland.  We’ll say that the year is 1569, because it was.  A man named Dirk Willems is being hunted.  It could be snowing, or not, regardless it … Continue reading →

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