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Thursday, December 20, 2007

My wife and I are hoping to organize a local chapter of Drinking Liberally, starting in January. Before we formally hook up with the national folks we want to see if enough people show up to make it worthwhile. First order of business is choosing a location. We’ve been thinking of the Harp and Hound […]

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A Christmas chore completed

Sunday, December 16, 2007

No posts yesterday, and probably none involving a lot of writing besides this today, because my literary efforts have been confined to, and concentrated on, our yearly Christmas letter. Every year I pen (what I hope is) a funny Christmas letter. The first year, if memory serves, it was a Doctor Seuss parody. A year […]

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Annals of Etymology

Monday, December 10, 2007

I just hope to [insert agnostic’s analogue of God here] that I used the word “etymology” correctly above. Here I toil away, sometimes posting three or four political posts a day with nary a comment, and I use a word wrong and I get in the middle of two English majors discussing the meaning, spelling […]

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Bad Behavior redux (briefly)

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Looks like my problems yesterday were not unique. Susie at Suburban Guerilla was also banned from her own site: Apparently every IP on earth has been flagged by Bad Behavior as a spam IP address, so nobody, including Susie, has been able to create posts or make comments. I just visited the Bad Behavior site, […]

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Bad Behavior behaves badly

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

When I tried to log on to my site today, I was not allowed to enter, on the grounds that I had been identified by my spam catching plug-in (Bad Behavior) as a person who had engaged in malicious behavior on the site. This seemed rather unkind, since after all it is my website. Technically, […]

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Solidarity

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Many of my readers are probably wondering: Why has the writing on this blog sucked so much lately? How is it possible that it could have gotten any worse than the lows to which it habitually descends? There is a perfectly logical explanations for the wretched prose I have spewed forth of late. I am […]

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Happy Thanksgiving

Thursday, November 22, 2007

This year’s apple pie.

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Bill Maher on health care, etc.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Gliding toward the holiday, feeling a bit lazy. Bill Maher’s latest rules. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxG6VFdwdM0[/youtube] Yet more proof that only comedians can tell the truth about the state of this country.

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Presidential politics summarized

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
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Pity the Bush Administration when it can’t even find good liars

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

This is really embarrassing. How does this woman stand doing this every day? If you need proof that near competent (the best Bush ever managed to get) people are avoiding the sinking ship of this Administration, watch this video. The first rule of being a Republican Press Secretary is to lie and spin without looking […]

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