Tuesday, February 28, 2006

The Doctor is out: Sci-Fi Channel destroys my yearly PBS prank

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Right now UNC-TV, the public broadcasting network here in North Carolina, is having their annual "Festival" fundraising campaign ....
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"Hotter than a pistol!" Autistic player's story still stuns

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In case you haven't heard by now, the breakout sports star of the past week or so has been Jason McElwain of Greece Athena High School ...

And now Dennis Weaver has left us

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Over the weekend we lost Don Knotts and Darren McGavin. Now it comes out earlie today that Dennis Weaver died over the weekend also. He wa...
Monday, February 27, 2006

Getting the REAL box for The Simpsons Season 6 DVD set

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It's not as creepy as that plastic-faced "king" in the Burger King commercials, but it's still somewhat disturbing to have...

The Bowie knife my Dad made

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My Dad has been working on a Bowie knife lately. The other week he finished it. I thought it'd be neat to post some pictures of it, sh...
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Sunday, February 26, 2006

Darren McGavin 1922-2006

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Within hours of losing Don Knotts, another great actor left this earthly realm: Darren McGavin . Which has a tinge of irony to it because i...
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Don Knotts 1924 - 2006

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Well, what can be said that hasn't been said already. The man was a comic genius. And even though Knotts was from West Virginia, his c...

America, the ports, and Napoleonic France

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Remember those six American ports that Dubai is set to take over? Well, it ain't six ports at all. It's twenty-two ports . This ma...
Thursday, February 23, 2006

About the story that USED to be here

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After some reconsideration, I decided to pull the article about the Mohammed cartoon. No, nobody threatened me or anything like that (which...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

So y'all went looking for Taylor Hicks and found me :-)

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According to the stats, about 85% of this blog's new visitors lately are coming in from search engines after they've entered "T...

The boys rocked tonight's Idol

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We watched the girls last night on American Idol and tonight's show and between the two, we felt most entertained by the guys tonight. ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

NOW he threatens to veto something: Bush wants foreign control of American ports

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Why in the name of Valhalla is our President Bush hot to sign away control of several American ports to a foreign company run by the United...
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Monday, February 20, 2006

An American original passes away: Bill Moran re-discovered centuries-lost secret

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Of all the sad news that I've had to pass along in this space lately - and there's been more than its fair share - this is by far th...
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Rep. Ron Paul on "The End of Dollar Hegemony"

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A little over a month ago I wrote here about how the value of the American dollar was being underwritten by how it is used on the global oi...

Government quashes independent dairy farmers

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I'm posting this because as a former independent dairy farmer, this is an issue that I've some passion for and I think it matters to...
Saturday, February 18, 2006

"Red Riding Rashomon": We get Hoodwinked

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It snowed at a pretty good clip for most of the day, which made the outside look really beautiful... while it lasted. When we got to the th...