A Short Skit on American Foriegn Policy

-How did they get Cheney squeezed into Ren’s little Chihuahua body?

Panem et Circenses

Juvenal’s famous phrase, panem et circenses (“bread and circuses”) has become proverbial to describe those who give away significant rights in exchange for material pleasures. Juvenal has put his finger on two of the most important aspects of Roman chariot races—their immense popularity and the pleasure they [...]

Hemingway’s on a Wednesday

It’s not Rosa’s cantina, but, it’ll do…They serve Labatt.
I had the great honor of meeting a fellow blogger, live and in the flesh, for the first time ever–with the exception, of course, of my Brother–Wednesday, at one of my favorite local hangouts here in El Paso. It was an enlightening experience and quite the brainstorming [...]

The BesT News all Year

LOWELL, Mass. - Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” will be published in its unedited original scroll version by Viking Press, which published the Beat Generation classic in September 1957.

Take me out with the crowd.

-Follow up to, “Take me out to the Ballgame.”

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“I thought we were going to see a baseball game?”
“Well, no, ah, no one wants to go now.”
“Ok.”
“Where are we going then?”
“We’re going to a picnic with my friend Bear…”

…more pictures here.

Dude

I fucking hate Sundays…
(exception)

Take me out to the ballgame

Maybe I wont be back to blogging so soon…going out to see a Diablos game tonite. It’s been along week, and I need to unwind. Had a P.T. Test Monday. I’ve had to move to a new room in a different set of barracks, and doing the dufflebag drag late into the night put me [...]

I Shall return to form this weekend…

Meanwhile, some of what’s going on in the Blogosphere and beyond:

BEIJING, July 20 (Xinhuanet) — 12 million Americans keep a computer log and share it with the world while about 57 million Americans read these blogs, or Web journals, most of which detail everyday experiences, the Washington-based nonprofit Pew Internet & American Life Project [...]

…what is it good for?

Click on picture for the rest…

-What does it solve? Oh …and shut the fuck up with your bitching at the gas pump, your getting exactly what you asked for.

A nod to One Good Move.

What’s going on…

…and now, the news.

July 14, 2006

House Approves Renewal of Voting Rights Act

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ

WASHINGTON, July 13 — The House voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to renew expiring provisions of the Voting Rights Act after supporters of it defeated challenges mounted by conservative opponents.

The 390-to-33 vote on the landmark civil rights act capped a [...]