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NORTHCO

By Richard Day on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 9:30am |
Hey Frank, you want another beer.In a bit Sean.It's Friday Frank. Hell you are Friday Frank.Yeah yeah...All right. The others are not even here yet.  So what is the matter? Just you and me. I...I... Ah come on. Ale...
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A REBIRTH

By Richard Day on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 12:40am |
Bobby Darin   Gideon's Trumpet is a wonderful flick with Henry Fonda, Based upon a true story. From his prison cell at Florida State Prison, making use of the prison library and writing in pencil on prison stationery, Gideon...
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CULPABILITY

By Richard Day on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 8:15pm |
Little Caesar original poster (1930) What if an attorney wrote a letter/memo to a client explaining how she did not have to withhold taxes on her employee's wages.  What if a lawyer wrote a memo telling the President of...
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A Clio Award for Bush

By Richard Day on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 5:35pm |
Clio Award Clio Awards Okie dokie then....Our President receives a Nobel Peace Prize without any lobbying effort on his part and even appears a little embarrassed in his short speech acknowledging that he will accept it.  Only 9 months in...
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THE FOUR FINGER SALUTE

By Richard Day on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 9:49pm |
Miguel Cabrera DOkay. It is the bottom of the third inning. The game is tied at one run each. The lead batter hits a line drive to the third basemen. The third baseman, attempting to look cool for the...
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EYES OF THE BEHOLDER

By Richard Day on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 9:00pm |
David King of all Israel King David by Pedro Berruguete I was reading my friend Icky's blog today, and thought I would follow up on the new biblical reclamation project.  http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/ickyma/2009/10/creationi...   I reread the little article in HuffPo: Lo...
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THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE

By Richard Day on Mon, 10/05/2009 - 11:07pm |
THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE Beaver Fossil range: Late Miocene - Recent American Beaver (Castor canadensis) There is a wonderful movie with Robert Young of all people. Young and Dorothy McGuire are misshapen and scarred people who somehow find love in...
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YOU'VE NOT SEEN NOTHIN LIKE THE MIGHTY QUINN

By Richard Day on Sun, 10/04/2009 - 9:54pm |
"Mighty Quinn" Q IS BACK   Quinn the Eskimo comes back with his own blog; his first in four months or so.  http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/quinn_esq/And the best part of course is that no one, I MEAN NO ONE is ever going to...
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MANY ARE COLD BUT FEW ARE FROZEN

By Richard Day on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 10:05pm |
I was not going to blog today. But I came across articles that knocked my socks off. I thought cryogenics was the field of science dedicated to freezing humans just prior to death so that somehow the specimen could someday...
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THE APOLOGY

By Richard Day on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 8:00pm |
Ancient philosophy As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.SOCRATES (Please note in my defense, that no Athenians were hurt during the creation of the post, but if your eyes and ears are sensitive today, please...

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