Posts from January 2007

    Aqua Teen scare: The best thing since duct tape and plastic sheeting

    by mumbles

    The reaction of city officials was sufficiently Chicken Little-esque that it guarantees that this will go down in the contemporary history books as the best thing since Tom Ridge’s advice for Americans to go out and buy plastic sheeting and duct tape to seal their windows in preparation for full-scale bio-chemical warfare.

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    Posted at 31 January 07 at 22.01 in Culture

    TIMEWARNER AD CAMPAIGN BRINGS BOSTON TO A HALT

    by Hiram Johnson

    I spent the better part of my afternoon praying for the boys in blue in Boston, Mass. today. Boston was crippled today as police destroyed suspected bombs throughout the city. It was later discovered they weren’t bombs, so my prayers were answered, thankfully.

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    Posted at 31 January 07 at 21.01 in Guest Authors

    The Last Call for Our President

    by Tecla

    A little Moscow might be what Bush really needs… hoo-rah!

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    Posted at 30 January 07 at 17.01 in Guest Authors

    Fixing Iraq

    by mumbles

    I have a great deal of pessimism about the war in Iraq these days. That is because it is not one war, per se. It is many. And each of them seems to be increasingly unwinnable. In combination, they are almost certainly so.

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    Posted at 27 January 07 at 20.01 in Politics

    State of the Union tag-team blogging part 2

    by mumbles

    In the post please find exciting live (on tape) updates from myself and my good friend Hiram Johnson regarding the content of Jim Webb’s Democratic response to the 2007 State of the Union speech.

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    Posted at 23 January 07 at 20.01 in Politics

    State of the Union tag-team blogging

    by mumbles

    In the post please find exciting live (on tape) updates from myself and my good friend Hiram Johnson regarding the content of President Bush’s 2007 State of the Union speech.

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    Posted at 23 January 07 at 15.01 in Politics

    New series sheds light on baby-making

    by Tecla

    Previously the whole multiplication process, from the perspective a non-pregnant person, was steeped in mystery.

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    Posted at 23 January 07 at 09.01 in Guest Authors

    Primary Polling — and general matchups

    by mumbles

    Primaries: Hillary dominates…Obama does well in rockstar places…Giuliani doing well early, but not in the midwest, and…Gingrich is the dark horse (oh my). General election matchups: Democrats destroy the generic GOP, win against Mccain, lose to Giuliani - except to Edwards, and…maybe Hillary?

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    Posted at 22 January 07 at 19.01 in Politics