The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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TPM AWARDS

                                                                                   SENATOR JOSEPH LIEBERMAN This weekend I was surfing as usual since I have no life and found this at TPM:Today we're announcing the categories in...
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD: The Eighth Canon & Courtesy

                                                      DOM IRRERA                                    CANONS OF ETHICS IN THE                                       WEBNETBLOGOSPHERE:                                 THE CASE OF THE AD HOMINEM                                                      ATTACK 8. Be courteous. There will be...
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD: The Seventh Canon & Armageddon

In March I wrote a series of posts discussing the Ethics of Blogging. Craig Crawford had set down ten rules for commenting on his web site and I knew that they were applicable in one manner or another to...
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD: The Sixth Canon & Setting Your Cites

I thought we might take some time to discuss exactly what a blog is. If we do not have an adequate understanding of what a main post is, we cannot discuss what a comment is. And if we cannot...
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DICK CHENEY RECEIVES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Today after much delay and fanfare, Richard Bruce Cheney accepted his Nobel Prize for Peace. Here are excerpts from his acceptance speech:   Ladies and gentlemen, I am truly awed by these proceedings and gratefully accept this highest of...
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JOHNNY CASH: How High's the Water Mama?

Johnny Cash 1932-2003Johnny Cash is a hero of mine; always was. Actually worked in Arkansas cotton fields as a little boy singing southern religious dirges as he worked.He tells the story of his Daddy keeping his mother informed as...
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD: The Fifth Canon & Terseness

                                                                                    ERIC ARTHUR BLAIROrwell, "Politics and the English Language":"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus:1. What am I trying to say?2. What words will express it?3. What image or...
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NORTHCO-18: The Goddess of the Springs

Triptolemus standing between Demeter and Kore, relief from the National Archaeological Museum of Athens And welcome to the corporate sponsored republican sponsored golf tournament of the century featuring 14 of the world's top 23 golfers in a field of 18....
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD: Odysseus, Spam & The Fourth Canon

     March 12, 2009, 8:01AM  Craig Crawford revisited our little group again yesterday and gave us more positive reinforcement for continuing our look at the universal rules of the newtwebblogosphere. And ever since I got those depends I was prepared...
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD, Setting the Tone and the Third Canon of Ethics

                                                                          ATHENA                          THE GODDESS OF WISDOMThe third canon of ethics is of import. I mean if you had personally been accused...
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD, Craig Crawford's Second Rule For Bloggers

Okay, so I thought, hell, let us continue to take a look at blogging from a 2009 point of view.Now Missy would tell me that I am simply seeking to get attention. That is that I am only seeking...
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HOW TO BLOG GOOD; A REEXAMINATION

File links I lost everything about ten years ago. And then, I lost everything...only this time it was everything. That was five years ago. HaI decided in 2008, I would see if I could rehook up into the Web again....
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TIGER & HIS WOODY

All right, the way I heard it Jack Nicklaus' wife got on Johnny Carson. Carson inquired if she did anything for her husband by way of preparing for a tourney.Oh, I wash his balls. Boy, I bet that makes...
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SAILIN' THRU PALIN: A Cafe Contest of Quotes

                                                                                       PATTON OSWALTGeoffrey Dunn, who is making a fifth career off of the Palin memoirs (?) put it this way: But perhaps the most embarrassing gaffe so far is her mis-attributed quote to UCLA basketball legend John Wooden....
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NORTHCO-17: The Attack of the Armadillos

Samuel L. Jackson Mortimer Young awoke pissed off. He was used to greeting Rosy Fingered Eos in that manner; had been for years. Angela was used to it. Frisky at night, pissed in the morning. That was her mate...
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LET'S REALLY PISS THEM OFF: A Proper Curriculum For the Budding DUDE

                                 THAT'S WHAT I SAY: Welcome to Med Grow Cannabis College, a new institution of higher learning where, for $485, you can receive a six-week education on medical marijuana--a curriculum combining law, horticulture, and history. "This state needs jobs, and...
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GUNS & BITTER

Every once in awhile two films greet the public around the same time concerning the same subject matter. Wyatt Earp and Tombstone were two such films. The former prepared by a fairly liberal Democrat; Kevin Costner. The latter prepared...
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FUN REPORTERS: Where the Hell IS Sam Kinison When We Need Him?

Sam Kinison (Mary) Walsh is the co-creator and star of This Hour Has 22 Minutes -- a nightly news parody show in the same vein as The Daily Show -- and she arrived in character, as the conservative Marg...
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FATHEAD DOBBS FOR PRESIDENT

http://www.esquire.com/cm/esquire/images/obama-joker-picture-lou-dobbs-0... Less than two weeks after his controversial departure from CNN, Lou Dobbs affirmed his intentions to run for president in 2012--"Yes is the answer," Dobbs he replied on Fred Thompson's radio show--and third-party heavyweights are right behind him....
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SNATCH: An Existential Take.

Mary fucking Poppins London (Farina)   The single greatest fight film of all time has nothing to do with Rocky or Somebody Up There Likes Me or even The Great White Hope.   The single greatest fight film of...

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