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Matt Taibbi cuts out all the bullshit from Kerry’s acceptance speech… “When I was done cutting, there were only two lines left. I was born in Colorado. America can do better.” In other news, this guy is fucked. Too bad for him he’s not a rich football player. Maybe he can blame Liberal Intolorence, or […]

“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” Chinese Proverb It’s after my strength training class on Monday, the day after my climbing class, and I’ve just lost about a gallon of water. Our MA school doesn’t have air conditioning, just a bunch of big fans, and on a 95 degree

From: Quotable Woman “If you weigh well the strengths of our armies you will see that in this battle we must conquer or die. This is a woman’s resolve. As for the men, they may live or be slaves.” – Boadaceia “How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?” – Zsa

“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you’ve just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you’d like to learn more about war, there’s lots of

I’ll be fascinated to know where we’ll draw the line. Concentration camps? Death squads? “We caution people not to write about bombs because if they’re going on vacation, their travel plans will be disrupted,” she said.

Some random miscellany: Plastic surgeons today warned people not to have cosmetic surgery to try to gain celebrity looks. And, in case there was any further dissent about the reason there are still more dead people in the middle east: Saddam controlled a country at the centre of the Gulf, a region with a quarter

So, at some point, I should address the fact that brutalwomen.com is a rather bad porn site. That is, that’s why I don’t own that URL. Though I’d prefer to have it. Of course, any configuration of URL that includes words like “women” or particularly “girl” are likely going to be porn sites. Porn sites

Two Girls Two girls, a he and a she, married along the far shores of the Shadow Sea. They were both very small, delicate in the wrists and ankles, light enough to fly. Frost kissed their eyelashes. They lay in the snow, dressed all in martyr’s white. We stoned then to death at dawn. The

I love this guy….

President George W. Bush may be tapping into solid human psychology when he invokes the September 11 attacks while campaigning for the next election, U.S. researchers said on Thursday… “A lot of leaders gain their appeal by helping people feel they are heroic, particularly in a fight against evil,” Greenberg said in a telephone interview