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The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society
A friend forwarded us this photo he found, dating back at least a couple of decades, proving we’re not the first women to enjoy reading in the altogether. Of course, they didn’t do it outdoors back then. But they seem to have done it in a combination library/bank vault, which is pretty cool, too. No, it hasn’t suddenly turned warm on us again. In fact, it was cold and rainy all day yesterday. All day!I have received several comments and e-mails recently from married men who are not just unhappy, but essentially on the brink of divorce. They are miserable, the tone of their posts/e-mails is defeated, and they live in fear. They are so defeated they don't even ask what to do, they merely resign themselves to defeat and say, "I'm so screwed." Enter in a personal anti-hero of mine, Lester Burnham. Lester Burnham is a character from "American Beauty." It is a movie every man should watch and learn what early alpha game looked like circa 2000.
Captain Capitalism
Borowitz Report
WASHINGTON ( The Borowitz Report ) – In the first term in office, President Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the previous eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say. New polls indicate that millions of Americans are put off by the President’s unorthodox verbal tic, which has Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opens his mouth. Mr. Obama’s decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements, as well as his insistence on the correct pronunciation of the word “nuclear,” has harmed his reelection hopes among millions of voters who find his unusual speaking style unfamiliar and bizarre.
Conservapedia
Despite vastly outspending his opponents and being boosted by the liberal media , Mitt Romney still fell short of 50% even in left-leaning Illinois . [10] The lamestream media are thrilled that conservative Tim Tebow is being forced out of Denver , and John Elway fell for the hype by signing a neck-injured Peyton Manning to a nearly $100 million deal. [11] "Plan B? I don't have a Plan B," Elway admitted. Was the real goal to replace Tebow with someone liberals would accept?March 30 The misleading assault on the president’s energy policies continues. A conservative group’s TV ad claims “we will all pay more at the pump” because the administration “blocked” the Keystone XL pipeline. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell claims that the pipeline “could have brought 700,000 barrels of oil to the market … More >>
FactCheck.org
Even though I consider myself fairly low impact in most of my everyday practices, giving up the plastic straw was an oversight I didn't finally address until fairly recently. I had been on the way to weaning myself slowly off of excess waste: bringing my own tupperware to restaurants to pack leftovers (and simply not eating out as much), refusing paper and plastic bags in favor of my own canvas ones, and bringing my own reusable mugs and cutlery in my bag as part of a permanent carry-along item, along with my wallet, keys, and the ever-present pen & paper that always is on a self-identified writer's person. But as for straws...well, when did my vendetta against them begin in earnest? I had, these past few years, intermittenly refused them at restaurants, though it didn't bother me so much if I forgot to or not (which I often did). If they still adorned my glass, I took it in stride and shrugged it off.
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Strong Moderate
With only 48 hours before the "deadline" (I'll explain why that is in quotations in a minute), the media hype is all focused on the possibility of a debt deal between House GOP, also read 'the Tea Party', and Senate Democrats/the President, also read 'Centrist Democrats'. If you want to know the importance I place on a balanced budget, under-control debt, and a lack of wasteful spending feel free to read some of my past posts. This post is more about the subtle things that are happening behind the scenes that have gone under the radar with the Mainstream Media. 1.
When the Limbaugh-Fluke brouhaha erupted earlier this month, I was stranded deep inside one of those interminable freelance projects that are a fact of life for writers without glossy six-figure publishing contracts or lofty media pulpits. While the public’s fury swelled, I had to clench my teeth and press on with my project. Since then, I’ve been fighting a war with myself, chomping and bucking like a race horse trapped inside the starting gate.
THE NEW MODERATE
I know I often disagree with him. But then there’s stuff like this : “What’s stopping Warren Buffett from paying more taxes?”
The League of Ordinary Gentlemen
One of the more striking aspects of the pre-emptive strikes on Peter Beinart's tightly argued polemic, The Crisis Of Zionism , is not just their viciousness, but their avoidance of the core issue of the book: Why continue to build the settlements? Is it not clear by now that the settlements' existence and relentless expansion are turning liberal Zionism into "something much darker"? What justification is there for continuing to build them, to add to them, to keep increasing the Jewish population in an area that under any two-state solution, Israel would presumably have to give up?
The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
It took the front and back of a military “Charge Sheet,” DD Form 458, and three additional sheets to list the 17 specifications of Charge I, “Violation of the UCMJ, Article 118– each one specifying the murder of an Afghan man, woman or child — and the following two additional charges: Charge II: “Violation of the UCMJ, Article 80,” I.E. the attempt to murder one Afghan man, one woman and four children. Charge III: “Violation of the UCMJ, Article 128”: I.E. committing... Yesterday I wrote about watching the movie Groundhog Day on Country Music Television and the fact that they’d muted the word gay from one scene. I questioned why they did so since the scene simply involved Bill Murray’s character saying that a waiter was gay and the waiter calmly confirming the fact.
The Moderate Voice
Peter Feaver comments on the Obama campaign’s Bin Laden ad: The critique of Romney was fundamentally dishonest in the way that campaign ads often are. The ad cherry-picked Romney quotes and deployed them out of context.
Eunomia
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