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THE EXPERT AS THE DANGEROUS WHORE

By Richard Day on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 12:35am |

I discovered the most informative time line regarding the history of tobacco litigation in this country. http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacco_History20-2.htmlIn 1951 studies began to come to the fore demonstrating that smoking may be hazardous to your health. After a couple years...

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RATIONAL RATIONING

By Richard Day on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 1:43pm |

A not so new argument is being made on MSM concerning the new Health care legislation as the Senate decides today whether or not THEY CAN EVEN DEBATE THE GODDAMN THING. (blesses himself and as he curses all repubs...

NORTHCO-16: Shine Little Glow Worm, Glimmer, Glimmer

By Richard Day on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 10:36pm |

Frank awoke as part of his sofa. He looked around and after a couple minutes figured out why he, not so deep down, wished he could just remain part of a sofa. This vacation thing has got to end...

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ECCE HOMO

By Richard Day on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 12:27am |

http://archaeology.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=archaeology&cdn=... earliest known European cave paintings date to 32,000 years ago. The purpose of the cave paintings is not known, and may never be. The evidence suggests that they were not merely decorations of living areas, since the caves...

LIES & BROKEN PROMISES

By Richard Day on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 9:00pm |

Metadata File:Musee de la bible et Terre Sainte 001.JPG What exactly is a lie? Here are some definitions from different sources: A false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.Something intended or serving to convey...

NORTHCO-15: There's a Train Acomin'

By Richard Day on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 9:50pm |

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43m6dcMk6U Frank hit the scotch a little too hard that afternoon, the afternoon after he had met the bureau chief. Let's see, how many contractual provisions I did break so far.I spoke with an investigator for the State....

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GLENN BECK & THE WORLD GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY

By Richard Day on Sun, 11/15/2009 - 11:19pm |

Once upon a time, Bill O'Reilly did not get along real well with Al Franken. Now Al, my hero had written a couple books. One of them was entitled: Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot. I loved that...

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A New Take on the Eighth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.

By Richard Day on Sat, 11/14/2009 - 10:01pm |

Old Sparky, the electric chair used at Sing Sing prison Lethal injection as a modus operandi is back in the news. http://www.law.berkeley.edu/clinics/dpclinic/LethalInjection/LI/Ohio/gov... http://www.law.berkeley.edu/clinics/dpclinic/LethalInjection/index.html Which always takes me to a closely linked issue: Animal euthanasia (from the Greek meaning "good...

The Age of Carrie Palin

By Richard Day on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 10:15pm |

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NORTHCO-14: Motivational Speaking

By Richard Day on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 10:12pm |

Langdon left Frank after a couple hours. It is harder to investigate when you do not have intimidation at your disposal.Fuck subpoenas. Where the hell is my probable cause anyway? He came to some conclusions on his way back...

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Bush's Stink Tank

By Richard Day on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 11:23pm |

WHAT? ME WORRY?George W. Bush has his own library. He spent more hours planning that library than he ever did planning anything else during his eight years as President of the United States of America.It contains the four books...

MORE MUSINGS ON HEALTH CARE

By Richard Day on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 12:05am |

Al Capone All righty then. The House of Representatives has passed a health care act that is 2000 pages long, and we all wish to know what happens now.Please take time to at least check out Ducky's take on...

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NORTHCO-XIII: The Mange

By Richard Day on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 8:32pm |

Our detective was hard at work in his office, trying to sort things out. Now we have three more murders outside of Pierre and just outside of a giant stag.We are all just poor players on the stag.Jeeeeeeeeez I...

HEALTH CARE MUSINGS

By Richard Day on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 9:12pm |

On a more important note: There was a monumental, historical step taken yesterday in the People's House. There were sooooo many issues involved that we could do three hundred blogs (not that we could not find three hundred...

BABIES, RACCOONS AND HEALTH CARE

By Richard Day on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 8:08pm |

Representative Shadegg: I wish this was my granddaughter," Shadegg said. "This is Maddie. Maddie believes in freedom. Maddie likes America because we have freedom here. And Maddie believes in patient choice health care. She asked to come here...

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STRING THEORY

By Richard Day on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 5:33pm |

Theseus and the Minotaur on 6th-century black-figure pottery F.decorate(_ge('photo_notes'),History Channel has gone Greek today. Not in the sense of Gay Spartans, but from an ancient religious perspective.You might recall that King Minos ruled Crete, the great island of the...

NORTHCOXII-Secret Agent Man

By Richard Day on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 12:21pm |

Frank awoke. Where...oh god the hospital again. Fear almost paralyzed him but he could move his fingers and toes. It was just a dream; a dream of previous torture.He looked around, recognized his situation, and began to rise....

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DONKEY KONG AND ELEPHANT DUNG

By Richard Day on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 10:31pm |

Max Blumenthall has me laughing today. In the wake of defeat, some of Hoffman's enthusiastic backers attempted to spin his loss as a heroic moral victory. They included Erick Erickson, a popular blogger at the heavily trafficked right-wing blog,...

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THE MAN CHILD

By Richard Day on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 7:59pm |

Well here is a new one. I watched Rush Limbaugh during his soft ball interview with baby boy Wallace and heard him accuse our President of being a man-child:...

NORTHCO-XI: What's It All About Algie?

By Richard Day on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 10:04pm |

The room was white; white as a new blanket of South Dakota snow; before the car tracks, before the animal tracks and before the other inevitable pollution by nature or man. Virgin is the appropriate word here.And it was...

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