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Thursday, October 27, 2005

$100 Billion In Profits For Exxon While You Pay Higher Prices At Pump

How do you become the first American company in history to make $100 billion in a single quarter? Easy. You take an inflated raw product, refine it, then gouge the public. Royal Shell also posted record profits. As did Marathon. Hmmm. Did any oil company show a loss this past year? Doubt it.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 20, 2005

The NBA's Dress Code

The NBA has just passed a regulation requiring basketball players to maintain a certain sense of decorum when representing the team and, by extension, the NBA. They are to dress as professionals, business casual and no ostentatious jewelry worn outside the clothes. Some are saying the regulations... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 17, 2005

No Great Man, But A Racist And Rabble-Rouser

Speaking on the National Mall in front of about 100,000 people, a far cry from the More Than A Million the name of the gathering had hoped for, an even further cry from the near million that attended the Million Man March ten years ago, Louis Farakhan harrangued the crowd with his usual litany of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

The Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played

There are many that vie for the title, and a very subjective title it is. The greatest baseball game ever played usually comes down to nailbiting shutouts or close scoring nailbiters or extra-inning marathon nail-biters. There are those games that live forever in history, like Buckner's error that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 10, 2005

Public Sex Acts Protected Under First Amendment

The state of Oregon's Supreme Court decided that public sexual acts are protected under the constitution as a freedom of personal expression. Now, Californians don't have to go south of the border to enjoy a public sex show; they can go north of their border also. Sign in to see full entry.

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For The Submissive, Passive, Weak-Willed, Subservient Milquetoasts...

AOL today has a banner that reads: "They Have Everything", with the adjoining subtitle: "They're richer, smarter, funnier, and have a lot more talent than you." Positioned to the left of this patently offensive and elitist statement are pictures of Gwen Stefani and Anderson Cooper, two people who... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 9, 2005

Misspellings

I make a few, here and there, but I pride myself on my ability to spell (without using spellcheck or anything like it, which is why you see a few misspellings here and there, but, believe it or not, those are almost always typos). And it is bad enough in this day of abbreviation, acronyms, and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 8, 2005

Sir Francis Bacon, Please Step Aside For The New Shakespeare Challenger

Does the name Henry Neville ring a bell? Even remotely? Well, it seems that Henry Neville was a Tudor diplomat and politician who got himself locked up in the Tower of London for his troubles. It also seems that he wrote in a notebook a few things quite Shakespearean that were revealed in the play... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Life Can Be A Cruel Bitch

A lady who has recently endured the loss of her home in New Orleans due to hurricane Katrina's onslaught was burned out of her apartment in Atlanta today, where she relocated after the flooding of her hometown. There's adding insult to injury. The lady's daughter said that her poor mother has... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 2, 2005

Ignorance Begets Ignorance

First, let me say that I literally despise chain letters and junk-mail, be it traditional mail or e-mail. That having been said, a friend of mine sent me this ridiculous piece of e-mail detritus: (ICHECKED THIS OUT ON SNOOPS AND IT IS TRUE!!!!!) How ironic is this??!! They don't even believe in... Sign in to see full entry.

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