tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41004882011-04-21T20:34:25.098-04:00If someone asks, this is where I'll be... where I'll be.andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.comBlogger2321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1157049623184710062006-08-31T14:38:00.000-04:002006-08-31T14:40:23.196-04:00

BlogDC has morphed into MetaDC, a part of the Metadish network. Update links and bookmarks accordingly.

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Technorati Profile

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No idea if anyone ever stumbles upon this, but just in case, allow me to put a link to my new site, BlogDC.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1128381571324056102005-10-03T19:19:00.000-04:002005-10-03T19:19:31.330-04:00

I have registered to play in theOnline Poker Blogger Championship! This event is powered by PokerStars. Registration code: 2837620

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1125850563439443832005-09-04T12:14:00.000-04:002005-09-04T12:16:03.446-04:00

I definitely like TypePad better, so this site is more or less dead.http://tmbtp.typepad.com

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1125597375064612972005-09-01T13:54:00.000-04:002005-09-01T13:56:15.070-04:00

I've decided to move from blogger to typepad. More a whim than anything else; I may or may not stay here. For a little while I'll be posting simultaneously at both sites; eventually I'll decide which one I like better and give up on the other.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1125508782558017602005-08-31T13:17:00.000-04:002005-08-31T13:19:42.563-04:00

Well, when you fundamentally reject science, I guess it's easy to believe that hurricanes are actually the Vengeance-Fetuses of God.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1125333335045965212005-08-29T12:33:00.000-04:002005-08-29T12:35:35.050-04:00

The man who took out Biggie shot himself in the leg? What an idiot; at least he deserved it. At least this story seems to get funnier and funnier the more I hear.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1125099585469235552005-08-26T19:38:00.000-04:002005-08-26T19:39:45.473-04:00

I just want to claim that phrase as my own before everyone else starts using it. Which will be soon. Because this constitution is... what's the word... crap.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1125074674272434522005-08-26T12:40:00.000-04:002005-08-26T12:44:34.276-04:00

So, umm, does it make me a racist that I can't figure out the point Scoop Jackson was trying to make? What about if I find most of his columns on race to be pointlessly circuitous and written so as to remind me (without actually making a real comment on the issue at hand) at every possible paragraph break that I'm white, he's black, and that makes me unable to understand racial issues in America?

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124917416720870452005-08-24T17:01:00.000-04:002005-08-24T17:03:36.726-04:00

I can win a trip to the National Zoo? That would be exciting. Anyway, vote against the stupid names (ie, the first two).

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124857286762428662005-08-24T00:20:00.000-04:002005-08-24T00:21:26.766-04:00

Now I'll never fulfill my dream of having a pet dolphin. Sadness.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124824950429775472005-08-23T15:10:00.000-04:002005-08-23T15:32:14.433-04:00

This was linked to in Weingarten's chat today. I am carefully studying the wording:One of the most beloved comic strips ever created, CALVIN AND HOBBES returns for a special four-month engagement! For 17 weeks, from Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005,through Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005, CALVIN AND HOBBES will be available to newspapers.The occasion is a celebration of the new book collection,The Complete Calvin

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124811013929040702005-08-23T11:26:00.000-04:002005-08-23T11:30:13.936-04:00

I know all war is bad and all of that, but with all of the terrible stuff going on in the world, a Canada vs. Denmark grudge match might just be a welcome diversion...

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124809265534945592005-08-23T10:55:00.000-04:002005-08-23T11:01:05.540-04:00

Ok, just to get it out of the way, he's wrong about the oil thing.Fortunately (for you, because you won't have to read my opinion on things like Peak Oil), that's not what's interesting about this column. That's right, John Tierney is using his New York Times columnist job to become a bookie! He got the most coveted job in American journalism, and is using it to solicit bets by email. I don't

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124486279750886942005-08-19T17:15:00.000-04:002005-08-19T17:17:59.756-04:00

As I said, I always trust gambling sites...PRNewswire reports: "Sportsbook.com says bettors are zeroing in on Vice President Cheney as the next American President. The world's largest online sportsbook and casino has seen a significant rise in wagering on Vice President Dick Cheney as thelikely winner of the presidential race in 2008. Odds on Cheney have improved from 100-1, when betting on

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124472550268814972005-08-19T13:28:00.000-04:002005-08-19T13:29:10.273-04:00

Number 13? High expectations, again...

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124471925972292632005-08-19T13:17:00.000-04:002005-08-19T13:18:45.973-04:00

I updated my links on the left side of the blog. Of note in particular is the resumption of The Nationals League, although I can't promise Steve's attention span will go any longer this time.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124470405965988242005-08-19T12:42:00.000-04:002005-08-19T12:53:25.970-04:00

...is what it says about us. If we just up and leave Iraq now, we're confirming for the world that America is all of those terrible things they already think it is. That is, our power is used to go around and bully people of other races and religions; we kill for politics and money; our great ideals are really of no use to anyone. Liberals, who want to win the war on terror by proving that

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124382847501562252005-08-18T12:29:00.000-04:002005-08-18T12:34:07.506-04:00

Oh, right, I forgot about how Vietnam was Mr. Nixon's war. Mostly because it wasn't. Idiot.I guess one way of fixing the Democratic Party is to ignore past Democratic failures and blame them on Nixon... but another, better way would be to recognize that Vietnam destroyed the party partially because the party was so divided over it. "The Democrats" weren't right about Vietnam insofar as LBJ was

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124225072642641572005-08-16T16:43:00.000-04:002005-08-16T16:44:32.646-04:00

TECMO BOWL!

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124141515728004972005-08-15T17:27:00.000-04:002005-08-15T17:31:55.733-04:00

I can only hope that John Bolton and the UN manage to destroy each other in an explosive clash of stupidity. Oh, and if they'd take out irrationally-anti-Israel-"liberals" in the process, I wouldn't be too upset... I like that the point of the blog post is not to say that the UN is wrong, but instead to say that liberals should call the UN wrong for political purposes even if they don't really

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1124127092474924652005-08-15T13:28:00.000-04:002005-08-15T13:31:32.480-04:00

I have no idea why, but I just can not get the image of this guy as some sort of goofy Elmer Fudd creeping around his property out of my head. It's really pretty hilarious.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1123173847350444642005-08-04T12:38:00.000-04:002005-08-04T12:44:07.356-04:00

In Marc Fisher's chat today, someone brought forward a rumor that legislation is in the works to change the name of 16th St. to Ronald Reagan Blvd. I can't possibly begin to express my rage in this blog post.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1122570334791431342005-07-28T12:56:00.000-04:002005-07-28T13:05:34.796-04:00

He's empirically right, PG's demographics say it's being cheated on retail. (Although Starbucks alone clearly is not to blame.) What drives me insane is people accusing the county of 'playing the race card' when race is an obvious factor. What distinguishes PG County from every other jurisdiction in the metro region with similar income and education levels? There's an obvious answer here, and

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1122062957093133162005-07-22T15:41:00.000-04:002005-07-22T16:09:17.100-04:00

Since I still can't figure out whether or not 'Stella' is funny, I'm going to discuss the Daily Show once again. The LA Times gives us this description of Jon Stewart: "The news source for a culture in which all too often information must be distilled as entertainment before it can be safely assumed we're all paying attention."Once again, the media completely misses the reason for the show's

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1121966570271611242005-07-21T12:52:00.000-04:002005-07-21T13:22:50.276-04:00

That's right, more on the latest Harry Potter. I guess I could write about Rove or Roberts or something, but who really cares?Anyway, a lot of people have already mentioned the similarities between Death Eaters & Islamist terrorists, Azkaban & Gitmo, and everything else that Rowling uses as obvious allegory. The latest from Slate suggests that this will somehow make the book less timeless. I,

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1121901249521899422005-07-20T18:55:00.000-04:002005-07-20T19:14:09.526-04:00

(This is a possible spoiler for both book 6 if you haven't read it yet and book 7 if I turn out to be right.)This is one connection that I have not yet read anywhere on the internet; although I'm surely not the first to think about it, I'd like to claim it for myself until someone can prove otherwise:One Horcrux is presumed to be hidden in an object owned by either Ravenclaw or Gryffindor.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1121877883646998742005-07-20T12:39:00.000-04:002005-07-20T12:44:43.653-04:00

From The New Republic's review of Santorum's new book:Other phrases are described as "a fancy way of talking." And if still furtherclarity is required, the senator sometimes has a Lord of the Rings analogy onhand. Everyone knows who Gondor is, right?Umm, apparently, The New Republic does not know who Gondor is, insofar as it's a place rather than a person. It's kind of hard to make fun of

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1121817049475715882005-07-19T19:48:00.000-04:002005-07-19T19:50:49.480-04:00

I'm sure he didn't mind... I mean, his favorite philosopher also wore flip-flops.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1121362751292603562005-07-14T13:37:00.000-04:002005-07-14T13:39:11.300-04:00

Ignoring the fundamental stupidity underlying all aspects of this poll, why are the Braves listed as one of the options for 'favorite pro team'?

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1121285320259430012005-07-13T15:41:00.000-04:002005-07-13T16:08:40.266-04:00

I haven't posted yet this week primarily because I've been sitting here clicking 'refresh' on the news sites every three seconds until a new Karl Rove story pops up.Anyway, I finally got around to checking CNN (which is decidedly not a news site) and here's what I found.In addition to talking to kids about drugs and alcohol, parents should discuss other risky behavior, like the pass-out game,

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1121032516443439882005-07-10T17:50:00.000-04:002005-07-10T17:55:16.450-04:00

Let the Animal House jokes begin:"'Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation ...'"And I have to agree with Jordan: "As long as he's in double super secret prison soon, I don't care."

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1121023347234217982005-07-10T15:18:00.000-04:002005-07-10T15:23:55.056-04:00

NO!!!"The cub will be turned over to China after it reaches age 2, as part of a loan agreement with the Chinese government, the zoo said. Following tradition, Chinese officials probably will name the cub after it reaches 100 days old."

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120751906238758572005-07-07T11:43:00.000-04:002005-07-07T11:58:26.243-04:00

My building, along with several others nearby, was evacuated about an hour ago due to "something about a dog, a car and the White House." Yes, that's a direct quote from the email sent by my firm's Administrative Director upon our readmission to the building. Aside from the lack of forthcoming details, which can be forgiven assuming that Secret Service is still investigating this, I have a

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120705251735277392005-07-06T23:00:00.000-04:002005-07-06T23:00:51.740-04:00

Sad.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120670195084356152005-07-06T12:32:00.000-04:002005-07-06T13:16:35.090-04:00

First: I watched 'Stella' last night. Further proof that I will laugh at almost any original programming created by the network, funny or not. I thoroughly enjoyed the show even though I have absolutely no idea of why.Second: I seldom write about newspaper comics in my blog, since I'd hate to just steal the good ideas of others. If I did write about newspaper comics, I would still avoid '

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120662121676764912005-07-06T10:59:00.000-04:002005-07-06T11:02:01.680-04:00

I trust few sources, but I never doubt English gambling sites. Very sad, if true. My question is: Who would put money on Harry dying at just 16-1 odds? Rowling has been promising a seventh book for years; shouldn't the odds on this be something along the lines of 1000-1?

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120590500163369102005-07-05T14:49:00.000-04:002005-07-05T15:08:20.166-04:00

"It's not unlike the difference between people who call the airport by the Potomac 'National' and those who refer to it as 'Reagan.'"Let's be very clear: I think President Bush is the worst thing to happen to this country in my lifetime, and most likely since the Great Depression. However, the 'red W' hat was around back when he was still doing lines of coke off of the floor of his Yale frat

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120582859298866622005-07-05T12:59:00.000-04:002005-07-05T13:00:59.303-04:00

Read the very last comment (although it won't make sense unless you read most of what came before it).

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120579209324095662005-07-05T11:54:00.000-04:002005-07-05T12:00:09.330-04:00

I visit the following Starbucks locations frequently enough (I'd say at least twice per month for each one) to make an informed statement about each:-New York & H-16th & K-15th & I-14th & GThe last one listed in the one directly across the street from my office, so it's the one I would presumably go to every time I wanted coffee. However, this Starbucks can not make a simple Mocha without

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120577942021610002005-07-05T11:31:00.000-04:002005-07-05T11:39:02.023-04:00

Ok, that title could have led me into just about anything. However, it will instead lead me into an angry diatribe about how 'America' had better not steal my baseball team. The reason the Nats are great is because they're an unwanted stepchild, just like DC itself. I say let the politicians and the transplants keep going to see the Redskins, and let those of us who are actually from the DC area

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120577466495046592005-07-05T11:28:00.000-04:002005-07-05T11:31:06.496-04:00

This story gets better by the second.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120577252024037172005-07-05T11:22:00.000-04:002005-07-05T11:27:32.030-04:00

Simple point: Sales taxes are definitional regressive. So why is the NYT advocating more sales tax collection? I say continue to prevent online retailers from paying sales tax so that states lose money so that they have to raise income taxes to make up for it, reverse-Norquist-style.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120160288045657792005-06-30T15:31:00.000-04:002005-06-30T15:40:50.816-04:00

Just a thanks to Timothy Noah for continuing to bring this one to semi-public attention.I don't know that this disqualifies Malek from owning the Nats given that he seems to have acted under direct pressure from the President and has since (at least as best as I can tell) made appropriate apologies. However, it does perhaps mean that the Republicans should be a little more carefully about

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120147843100648042005-06-30T11:50:00.000-04:002005-06-30T12:10:43.106-04:00

Some more brief reviews:Oryx and Crake: On the scale of dystopian novels, I rank this below 1984 but above Brave New World (which should mean something seeing as Brave New World is pretty much a classic). It captures the fears of our time extrapolated to the future in much the same way that Orwell captured the extrapolation of fears in his time, only with more literary merit but fewer items with

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1120141311700947862005-06-30T09:52:00.000-04:002005-06-30T10:21:51.706-04:00

Yesterday, Sean went after her for her laughable attempt at political commentary. Today I shall mock her for thinking that she's Kornheiser. She took a weird, goofy story and made fun of it? By, umm, basically just rewriting the story as a dialogue? And then throwing in Tom Cruise just for the heck of it?Brilliant, I say.I especially like this line: "And I know there is more compelling sports

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1119978003747372272005-06-28T12:16:00.000-04:002005-06-28T13:00:03.776-04:00

But Discovery Channel's "Greatest Americans" is hilariouser* than most:1) Reagan: The verbatim description of his major accomplishment, on the Discovery site itself: "The oldest U.S. president, Ronald Reagan founded 'Reaganomics' and was known as 'The Great Communicator'. That's right, the greatest person in our country's history achieved old age and was given a cool nickname, plus he's

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1119588948468960702005-06-24T00:47:00.000-04:002005-06-24T00:55:48.473-04:00

Brief reviews of things I've seen/read/heard lately:1) Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, tonight at the 930 Club:Excellent show. I would characterize them as the epitome of how indie pop/rock should sound. On a less positive note, I wish to reiterate my belief that all opening acts at concerts should be required by law to perform at least one fairly well-known song written by another artist. For

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1119558386546198662005-06-23T16:25:00.000-04:002005-06-23T16:28:08.433-04:00

Read.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1119555894356264082005-06-23T15:07:00.000-04:002005-06-23T15:44:54.386-04:00

I'm not actually surprised that they left that one off, but judging by the recent movie quotes we did get, I'm surprised there was no "Whoah."Regardless, here are some thoughts on the AFI list* (because really, there are few things I care more about than movie quotes):-Zoolander: Several entries from films such as Animal House and Airplane! made the list, so I tend to think that the funniest

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1119545150628753452005-06-23T12:32:00.000-04:002005-06-23T12:45:50.633-04:00

This happened yesterday, but it's still bothering me. Did I just do a really terrible job of showing my sarcasm, or is this staff writer an idiot?20009: Drunken morons in bars who bump into me while dancing poorly, spilldrinks, and interrupt my conversations with their inane shouting are extremelyannoying. We all know that stress is a killer, and they aren't helping any ...plus a lot of people

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1119474918756707892005-06-22T17:11:00.000-04:002005-06-22T17:15:18.756-04:00

It came to my attention that no less than three different Arthurs of various types are linking to my blog. I therefore am going to reciprocate, primarily because I felt like putting up a second post today but wanted to avoid causing myself further aneurysms and hence did not wish to read anymore news.

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1119474245520706142005-06-22T16:51:00.000-04:002005-06-22T17:07:08.153-04:00

What does this MEAN?!?"Ask the men and women who stood on top of the (World) Trade Center," said Rep.Randy (Duke) Cunningham, R-Calif. "Ask them and they will tell you: pass thisamendment."I can't even begin to express how much I want to just start kicking things in frustration right now. Did those men and women intentionally die in a blaze of patriotic glory? Does Representative Duke Cunningham*

andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08295961421007625812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4100488.post-1119290490344032132005-06-20T13:19:00.000-04:002005-06-20T16:43:32.790-04:00

This post made me curious about what the nutcases were really saying about Durbin's remarks. A bit of clicking around led me to a (apparently very popular) nutcase blog's post. There are over twenty other blogs linking to that one, so I have to ask, why? People honestly buy into the types of arguments that this guy makes? Here are Durbin's exact remarks, in case you have yet to read them.1) "The

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For Father's Day, my siblings and father came to DC so that we could walk around the Mall. Towards the end of the afternoon, we went to the American History Museum, which currently has the best-named exhibit in the history of museums: "Whatever Happened to Polio?" Isn't that the question we've all been asking? Also interesting: The museum seemingly paid a lot of money so that metal detectors

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Number One.

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This post from Joel Achenbach struck me as the only intelligent thing I read about the Michael Jackson trial. Hence, I'm giving him credit for it. It does remind me that I still wonder what would have happened to Kobe had the jury been forced to decide.

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I was led to a NYT profile of my neighborhood thanks to Matthew Yglesias. The article actually has nothing whatsoever to say, but I found the last line to be absolutely hilarious: "Carlos Garcia, a corporate software lawyer who also owns property in the area, agreed. 'Gays, straights - I think that that is what U Street is all about,' he said. 'It is a mishmash of people.'" What?? Did the rest

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Junior Spivey? Possible conclusions, none of which are very good:1) Ohka and Frank hated each other a lot more than we realized. (But I still feel like we could have gotten more for him.)2) Vidro will be out a lot longer than we thought. (If true, the winning can't possibly keep up.)3) We're going to attempt to play a guy who's been slumping anyway at a position where he has exactly two games

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So apparently I was wrong when I told someone while watching television with them that I didn't think eHarmony was a religious company. Anyway, why was it necessary for the author of this piece to wear her liberalism on her sleeve? The guy she's interviewing makes it clear that he doesn't trust Salon, so she responds by questioning his sincerity every chance she gets? "This statement was so

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People will actually take the time to complain about ESPN's system screwing up their picks for FANTASY HORSE RACING. It makes me feel like I spend my time wisely.

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It's about time they arrested more minorities without charging them. It's been, what, nearly two weeks since a white girl went missing? Mmmm, justice.

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But since they don't, I still watch a lot of West Wing reruns on Bravo. This means I see an excessive number of commercials for the network's many terrible reality shows, the latest of which follows parents as they push their kids to win at sports. Making fun of reality shows has clearly been done to death at this point, but I do still have to question the commercials for this particular show

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"Wah Wah Wah, Democrats need to attract white Christians, stop insulting them, wah wah wah."Didn't we lose in 2000 because people said they couldn't distinguish between the two parties? Didn't we lose in 2004 because Kerry was afraid to stand for anything? Isn't the reason I want the Democrats to start winning that I'm afraid of exactly the people Dean keeps describing?Screw centrism, screw

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Can we be very clear that this is not a civil rights issue? I mean, if these were heterosexual strip clubs and X-rated theaters, they would definitely still be closed down if they happened to be in the way of the new stadium. Unless some of these people think that this particular area was chosen for the stadium specifically as an excuse to shut down their clubs?"I'm aware of the political tone

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Don't worry, you're perfectly safe- after all, we're still killing people in Iraq! By the way, was your point that we should eliminate airport security entirely or do something to make it better? I just ask because usually pointless complaints like the one you wrote are the work of cranky old men, not prominent and respected writers.

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Just thought I'd share.I would like to preserve this link as the definitive evidence that bloggers* have become overly self-important to the point where they should all be stranded on an island and forced to hunt wild pigs for sustenance.*I feel comfortable not including myself in the term 'blogger' simply because I don't do things like spend hours rating the comments of others on blog entries

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I just got back from an unexpected three straight days of, umm, sleeping. It turns out that I had strep throat, so for once my hypochondria was vindicated. Anyway, I need to move my laundry from the washer to the dryer before I go back to sleep, and the best thing on TV sadly seems to be extremely bad softcore porn on Showtime, so I think it's time for meaningless blogging.1) I don't have any

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Here's a fun read: A profile of the worst Maryland basketball player ever.

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Whatever, it isn't like they'll ever play again anyway.

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So here's the last 24 post of the year. For the record, it will be at least as funny as Dave Barry's, but that's only because Dave Barry's was fundamentally unfunny.Now, the fundamental problem with this two hour episode was that the missile was stopped fairly easily at about 6:20am, after Marwan was already dead. That left roughly 40 minutes of show without any major terrorist to stop or

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Most of Slate's 'bushisms' have been terrible lately, but today's pretty much sums up the man's entire misunderstanding of what a President is supposed to be doing.As a sidenote, why has 'misunderestimated' actually become a part of the English language? I see it all of the time now, including while reading novels (p.214 of the paperback copy). Note that Fortress of Solitude has a copyright of

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Without a serious challenge (Sean said he'd play but has yet to follow through; Steve sends questions for baseball chats and nothing else), I have been sleepwalking my way through as many Post chats as my busy work schedule allows. I believe I got something close to five or six postings published last week out of nine or ten submitted. However, I found today's success to be exciting enough that I

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Two things I can't stand have come together in an amazing fit of poor writing about a terrible subject. (I discussed the AF Academy scandal at large a while back.)1) The obvious joke: There are Jewish football players?2) What exactly are the colors of the cross? Blood red and rotting flesh? (If the answer is 'yes, blood red actually is a color of the cross' then please don't tell me because I

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...but in the meantime, here's my initial thought:Sometime between the release of AOTC and the serious scriptwriting work for what would become ROTS, Lucas was sitting around the Ranch reading reviews of the second prequel. All of the sudden, the man looked up and said to the empty room where he happened to be sitting, "Fuck this. They really want dark and violent? I wanted to make kids movies

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How could they write this whole article and not discuss College Park?

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Dear Serious/Semi-Professional Political Bloggers,You aren't as important as the New York Times. You never will be. A small handful of you may someday write on the op/ed page of the Times or its equals, but you don't today for good reasons. I care more about Dowd's, Krugman's, and Friedman's respective opinions more than yours, and I have much more fun insulting David Brooks than I have

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As 'ginormous' moves ever closer to legitimacy, the world moves ever closer to utter stupidity...

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Naked Mandy returns! (Can I just point out how obvious it is that the producers were responding to the fans when the scene they used to reintroduced her had naked in bed to start?)I know she was coming back, but I didn't expect it until next week so this was pretty cool. Alright, very quickly before we get to the important issue: Heller's son being gay was pretty idiotic, but I feel like it

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Chicago Tribune:Now, as he puts a close to the epic (if not to the merchandising), we canfeel something for which many critics never gave him enough credit: the realaffection and personal joy he took in these movies, the ways he fussed andfretted over them, and the ways he ignored the Hollywood establishment andforged his own relationship with the audience. Perhaps it's that personalinvestment in

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Hey, latently anti-semetic pricks, this isn't journalism. When you also write an article every other week about the fact that Jews in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Iran (at least, the handful who are still left after years of being killed and expelled) are treated immeasurably worse than the Arab citizens of Israel, then maybe I'll care about you. Until then, go fuck yourselves.If you're wondering,

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The season finale of Project Greenlight did a really great job of building all this suspense about whether or not the movie would get released; it seemed like we wouldn't know for sure until the very end... and then, during the last commercial break before the conclusion, Bravo runs a commercial telling you that you can win a trip to the red-carpet premiere of Feast. Nice work, idiots.

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Ah, the Rolling Stones are touring again- a perfect time for me to again point out that they are the most overrated act in the history of popular music. Why is anyone willing to pay $400+ for a band that hasn't put out a single listenable song in the last... I don't know... five hundred years or something? When did Wild Horses come out? I'm sure it was before 1975, as were the other two or

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And so the horrific trend of comic book villains almost always dying in their respective superhero's movies shall end with the same characters once responsible for its success...I loved Spider-Man 2 (and am willing to admit it) more than anyone else I know, but I still hated the fact that they killed Octavius. So much potential... not that they should ever make enough sequels to use him again,

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New favorite website.

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This post was just forwarded to me by email. I want to post my (orginally emailed) response here, just so I can make my prediction of the Great Star Wars Resurgence of 2005 perfectly clear to the masses. Before I do, let me add a very exciting link that was on the previous 'GOG' post.My response to the email:A) Nothing on that list is remotely clever. Not a single original orfunny one in the

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They actually launched the warhead! How the hell do they get out of this one? Is there a secret missile defense system that Former President David Palmer can somehow access? Will Jack Bauer personally take a military plane and fly it alongside the missile in order to climb out and disable the nuclear device before it detonates? Will they actually show a major American city being wiped off the

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Jordan has me listed as the very first link on his site, so I can't possibly not link back to him.

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How can someone who cares about Orwell so much not see the problems with what he keeps writing? Here's how Hitchens closes his latest piece:I wonder if any sympathizer of this view would accept its apparent corollary:that the executions and tortures inflicted by the Spanish Communists—crimes nowdenied by nobody, though Picasso excused them at the time—axiomaticallydiscredit the anti-fascist

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One notable name is missing from the list. What, is Team Gilchrest planning on transfering instead?

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How about the one where Jordan personally scouted and chose Kwame? Can he not be held responsible for not picking up on all of the attitude problems then? There are two options here:1) Jordan screwed Kwame up his first two years and destroyed the kid's confidence in his ability to play pro basketball in DC (or did something else that ruined him psychologically).2) Jordan utterly failed as a

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All I really need to say is that the closing scene in the CTU medical unit was almost certainly one of the top scenes the show has ever done (for dramatic value that is; there have been some better action scenes and some better surprising moments, of course). It's nearly up there with Mason and Bauer in the Airplane (probably my all-time favorite dramatic scene in any television show, although

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At some point point I'll be sure to actually explain why Columbia is a failure (conceptually speaking) despite how much fun she may or may not have had playing soccer on Howard's lit fields. In the meantime, here's the story; someone ought to tell this woman that she shouldn't write an article called 'Columbia Comes of Age' just because someone brought a gun to school... 'Guess What, There's

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A misuse of 'catch-22'.Here is the offending line:"This is a fear of being homeless and not finding anything, which is awell-founded fear," said Ron Sitrin, a Long & Foster Real Estate Inc. agentin the District. "But the more a potential move-up buyer is afraid to put hishome on the market, the more difficulty people will have finding homes. It's agiant Catch-22."Granted, this is a quote and not

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...or maybe the authors are simply equating Islam to devil-worship? In any case, "train-wreck fascination" was enough to convince me that I absolutely must read this book.

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Sean created a blog. I feel obligated to link to it, but I also feel obligated to take no responsibility for what he might post. Please note, if you are easily offended by racial humor or, umm, direct links to pornography, do not visit his site. Specifically, if you are a member of my family, do not click on anything of the things Sean links to. Please.

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Bah, email #2 only wants me to prey for a reverend who just had brain surgery. That's not nearly funny enough.

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Finally, I know where to direct my prayer. There's too much material here to work with, I'm just letting it stand alone, other than to say that it's too bad I couldn't keep all of the randomly RED-SHADED ANGRY and blue-shaded happy words that show just how serious they are while cut-and-pasting:Dear Praying Biblical Christians and others:Recently Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) made news saying she

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This is the dumbest argument ever.Even if you believe that there has been some sort of serious political discussion about torture on the show, that discussion has been decidedly inconclusive based on torture working sometimes and tearing apart families, relationships, and lives at other times. In other words, it's simply a reflection of the actual debate and not a subliminal attempt at

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