Archive for July, 2003

TAM: Readers’ Blog

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Oscar Jr. has confirmed my suspicion that TAM is a “readers blog” as opposed to a “bloggers blog.” According to his analysis, TAM gets “47 more visits per day than would be predicted giving the number of inbound links to, and the age of, your site.” I noted in a comment on his site that […]

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Fisking Tom Tomorrow

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Radley Balko rips apart a cartoon on libertarian ideas. Great effort.

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Bob Hope R.I.P.

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Bob Hope died today. He was 100. Since I wrote a little on him when he turned 100 a few months ago, I’ll just quote myself:
Today’s Bob Hope’s birthday. Many thanks should go to a very funny man who devoted so much time to entertaining our soldiers here and abroad. One World War II veteran […]

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Vote for the Gipper

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Reagan is still leading the Toypresidents voting. Keep it up. Vote, vote, vote!

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RWN

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John Hawkins has redesigned Right Wing News (lots of red, white, and blue) and got lots of good media.

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Fantasy Football League

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Attention football fanatics! I challenge readers and fellow webloggers to a season of frantic, gut-wrenching, heart-breaking, and, at times, hilarious fantasy football. For those of you who don’t know the game, it doesn’t involve Hooters’ girls putting on pads every weekend. It’s a simple, yet sophisticated game of drafting players, picking a line-up each week, […]

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Going to California

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Sharp legal minds are needed to determine the residency requirements to run for California governor. Here’s what I have from Rich Galen:
The California constitution requires five years of residency to be Governor but a footnote says “it is the opinion of [the office of the California Secretary of State] that this provision violates the U.S. […]

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Loss

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Wish Kevin and his family God’s blessings during this hard time.

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Seabiscuit

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My sister saw Seabiscuit and loved it. It’s her “favorite movie of all time.” She also wants me to get the book for her. There might be a few left at my store. It’s been selling very well.
“Seabiscuit Overtakes Hard Times, Sprints Home”

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Blogathon Recap

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Michele is “too old for this shit,” but you know she’ll do it again next year.
Laurence wins the TAM Dedication Award. He weblogged for 24 hours straight and goes to work at a new job tomorrow. You’re co-workers will just love your Monday morning demeanor.
Joni listed her food and drink consumption for the past day. […]

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Double Dipping

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If Maryland school were actually businesses (and not just “run like businesses”) there would be a few bankrupt ones. Why? Because they’re paying teachers $110,000 to teach phy ed. For that kind of money, there shouldn’t be any obese kids at that school.
“$110,000 to Teach Phys Ed”

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Bucks Coach Candidates

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For the three people who read this that care about the Milwaukee Bucks, here are some rumored replacements for George Karl’s job:
On the early list of candidates for the Bucks job is Hawks interim coach (and former Milwaukee assistant) Terry Stotts, whose falling out with former Bucks coach George Karl remains a mystery. Other possibilities […]

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Ambassador to France

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I’ve been nominated for Ambassador to France. I’m honored. If Glenn’s elected and the Senate confirms me I’ll do my best to bug the hell out of them while sampling as much of the fine cuisine the French would offer to butter me up (and they are French so lots of butter would be used). […]

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Blogathon Update

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After about 10 hours away from the computer it’s time to check on our Internet money-making friends.
From these cam shots I’ll be nice and say most of them look like hell.
Kevin has pleasantly forced me to listen to cool 80s tunes.
You know Laurence has been up way too long when he’s publically fantasizing about […]

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Blogathon is Go

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The Blogathon is underway. Go comment, e-mail, harass, or just laugh at Michelle, Kevin, Joni, and Laurence.

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