The Vig

I guess Brian Baird was in town tonight, but I missed it.  He’s been getting some run nationally for his recent remarks supporting the surge.  The Stranger’s Slog has a mini-rundown of the events in Vancouver here.  Looks like I’ll be taking a hike up to Longview tomorrow night to see what all the fuss […]

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Some of my best friends on the planet hail from the Palmetto State. They’d all like you to know, she does not speak for all of them.
A friend of a friend of mine appeared on that “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” show with Regis several years ago. The guy walked away with […]

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If there were a stock exchange for such things, I’d be buying every last piece of Michael Vick stock I could today and I’d hold on to it.  I’m not saying he’s a good guy.  I’m certainly not excusing what he did.  What I am saying is in a couple of years, once we’ve calmed […]

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Thank you, Senator Larry Craig (R-ID) for teaching me what it means when the guy in the next stall starts tapping his foot.
“At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot […]

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To happier times!  Like yesterday…
I was zen with the fact Gonzales was staying.  He couldn’t go in part because the president simply will not be able to get a new guy/gal confirmed and then where would he be?  I mean he could get someone confirmed, but that person would have to be competent and a […]

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Have you been reading any of this stuff that’s come out about Mother Teresa of late?
Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear.
Dear God, man. Here’s a woman who gave her […]

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Since middle school, the release of a new Bruce Springsteen album has been a reason to celebrate. I can remember listening to Born in the USA on cassette while pretending to do homework in my room. The tinny little speakers I’d hooked up to my Walkman pumped out the first side of that […]

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There’s been some very quiet worry about the air quality in China and how it will affect the juiced finely tuned athletes coming to participate in the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing.  I seem to recall Al Gore telling me in “An Inconvenient Truth” that we in the States had a way to […]

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