December 29, 2004
While looking for the racist cartoons mentioned in the previous post, I came across this beautiful piece from previous post, I came across this beautiful piece from faithmouse:
I guess like the professor said, we are just a bunch of old fashioned negro-hanging reactionaries.
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Now this is freakin’ hilarious: Scylla & Charybdis fisked a Washington Post piece and found 18 errors in one single paragraph!
But what’s even better than the fisking is one of the earliest responses, from a caring and educated professor:
let’s do some factchecking on this wingnut piece of propganda, shall we nazis?
Oh God, here we go [...]
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December 28, 2004
From helmut issel’s tsunami photo gallery:
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So many thoughts over the past few days, and so many prayers said. We can’t imagine the loss. Prayers, of course, seem small in comparison to the devastation.
Cox and Forkum says it best:
Cheese and Crackers has video footage of the tsunamis.
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December 25, 2004
We celebrated Christmas today by exchanging gifts, then moving straight into a grueling cardio workout, 100+ ab crunches, and then later a nice leisurely 10 mile bike ride. It would have been 15-20 miles, but as you can tell from the pictures below I had a stupid attack and therefore was very poorly equipped for [...]
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Part of a car dealer commercial just heard on the radio:
RIIIIING!!
Woman: Hello?
Man: Hi, it’s me.
Woman: Where are you?
Man: My car broke down again.
Woman: Again? Not again! I am NOT coming to get you this time. Honey, it’s our anniversary!
Gee, thanks. Honey.
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As heard on the Hugh Hewitt radio program last night (a radio host I typically only mildly like), Mark D. Roberts has a wonderful page up discussing interesting bits of Christmas Carol Surprises that most people probably never knew. What follows is a near-stream-of-consciousness summary and dump of what is on the page. But to [...]
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From the Editorial Page of The New York Sun, written by Francis P. Church, September 21, 1897.
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We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
Dear Editor—
I am 8 years old. Some of my [...]
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I would like to take a moment to wish a Merry and Blessed Christmas to all our readers. May you all find happiness and joy on this Day of Days.
And especially to my wonderful and beautiful wife Reneé. You are the greatest blessing I have ever received, and for that I am eternally grateful.
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December 24, 2004
In my never-ending quest to save humanity from itself, I’ve decided it would be in the best interests of mankind to become the author of a new advice column. I will begin this endeavour by correctly answering inquiries that were submitted to our local newspaper. First I will transcribe the questions as they were submitted, [...]
The Advice Squad
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