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Saturday, December 5, 2009

End of the year list time: Movies

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It looks like it's time for end of the year lists , with a list of the year's best movies. It seems a bit early, but that might be b...
Friday, December 4, 2009

An unusual path to the NFL

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I remember a running back for the Denver Broncos a few years back had a similarly strange path to being in the National Football League, but...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The story of Todd Walker

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I think that I have read at least fifty stories just like this one, and they never get old. Someone stepping up and doing something to selfl...
Sunday, November 15, 2009

The Onion is awesome

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Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be : "Our very way of life is under siege," said Mortensen, whose...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

Manny Pacquiao's strange entourage

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Manny Pacquiao is arguably the best boxer in the world, perhaps on his way to becoming one of the greatest of all time. If he wins in a welt...

People still think like this?

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Ugh. From The Guardian : Dressed in full uniform, the explorer scouts, who were taking part in Remembrance Sunday service in Romford, Essex ...
Friday, November 13, 2009

"The dad comes to a devastating realization: If they remain together, they’ll drown together."

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Wow, a powerful read from Men's Journal . I recommend reading it, solely based on the teaser paragraph: Swept out to sea by a riptide, a...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

"Where there's smoke, there's moonshine"

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Just an awesome headline. From McClatchy : Parker said he made undercover purchases of the illegal hooch in 2006 and 2007 but couldn't f...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Jemele Hill ignores that everyone hated Isiah Thomas

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Jemele Hill, writing about Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's book, mentions that Johnson led the charge to keep Isiah Thomas off the 1992 O...

On the Amazon-Wal Mart price war

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From The New Yorker : The best way to win a price war, then, is not to play in the first place. Instead, you can compete in other areas: cus...
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