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That's why their food sucks!

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The [Pizza Connection case] concerned a diaspora of Sicilian heroin entrepreneurs who operated out of various slice-and-Coke emporiums in locations ranging from Queens to rural Illinois... On the night of February 11, 1987, when defense lawyers were giving their summations, another defendant, Pietro Alfano (whose pizzeria was situated in Oregon, Illinois), was shot three times on the way out of Balducci's.

Oregon is the town closest to our favorite camping spot. We've eaten at Alfano's and frankly, it would be somewhat of a relief if the place is still a mob front, because that would at least explain why the dump stays in business.

(If you happen to visit Oregon, avoid Alfano's and hop over to La Vigna. Much, much better.)

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The Basepaths of Righteousness

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A couple of these border on blasphemy (#9 stands out), but I can't say I disagree with that many of them.

Ten reasons why baseball is God's game

8. It has its Suffering Servant, viz. the Chicago Cubs, the "Cubbies," a team annually "like a sheep led to the slaughter" (and crucial to the game is the play called the "sacrifice"). But "Cub fans love the Cubs, warts and all, no questions asked. This quality is called faith" (Peter Glenbock).
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Civic Literary Quiz

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ISI has a new Civic Literacy Quiz. I got a 93.94% (31 out of 33). I seem to remember getting a much lower score on previous years' quizzes.

Anyway, by coincidence, I scored the same as TSO and Bill White and we all got #33 wrong. My other mistake was 7, which is frustrating because I know where it's from, but I thought he was quoting....

Take the quiz, and then maybe lets start a petition that nobody who fails should be allowed to vote, or, even more importantly, hold elected office.

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A important perspective on the Palin nomination

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21st Century Snake Oil

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An internet ad I just saw:

"Cleanse Patch® is a Detoxifying Foot Patch That Extracts Toxins Overnight"

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I Will Never Tire of Saying It

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I love Get Fuzzy

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Just 'cause I feel like it

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Richard Spencer (original has links):

(Anecdote: once while I was at the U of C, I had the gall to paternalistically open a door for Sunstein’s then-girlfriend Martha Nussbaum (Cass is now apparently linked to Samantha Power; geez, this guy can’t get enough of the human rights crusaders!). Anyway, Martha didn’t budge and then opened the adjacent door for me, and we stood in a post-feminist stand-off for at least 20 seconds, until I briskly went through my portal and brusquely shut the door behind me. Take a look at this gal (egads!).)
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Solitaire: "Our Secret Shame"

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Mom, this one's for you.

The canonical single-player game is an easy punch line, most often cited as the preferred hobby of the office slacker or the intellectual playground of dullards. (George W. Bush was known to play the occasional hand while governor of Texas.) But the poor, benighted game is also—according to a Microsoft employee who worked on reprogramming it for Windows Vista—the most-used program in the Windows universe. We mock solitaire because it is our secret shame.
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It's less than two months until Father's Day!

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Winning the experience game

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C-Bonds

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Scrappleface:

The Bush administration today, in an another effort to reassure global investors that capitalism carries no risk of loss, announced today that J.P. Morgan Chase’s takeover of the near-bankrupt Bear Stearns financial firm would be secured by $30 billion in government surplus cheese.
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Garfield...

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minus Garfield

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.

Knee slapping, thigh bruising, laugh out loud, rolling on the floor laughing, beverage of choice all over the computer screen funny.

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Man oh man

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The sociologist in me just belly-laughed

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Things that might make your eyes well up...

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...when you're all alone on a Wednesday night with no work the next day and you're trying to watch all three extended version Lord of the Rings movies:

  • Boromir's last battle
  • Gandalf and Eomer appearing on the hilltop on the morning of the 5th day
  • Merry and Pippin parting ways
  • "...and Rohan will answer! Muster the Rohirrim!"
  • Deeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaath!
  • "I go to my fathers, in whose mighty company I shall not now feel ashamed."
  • Eomer's anguished scream when he discovers Eowyn fallen on the battlefield

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz.......

So, um, this should be a fun drive to catch up with the family for Thanksgiving.

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That sound you hear...

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...is me filling the building with laughter because I am now subscribed to the Car Talk podcast.

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What to do about tobacoo?

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Yes, yes, cigarettes kill people and cigarette production is horrible for the environment.

This, people, is why the Good Lord, in His infintely generous wisdom, gave us the pipe.

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Career Path

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I'm in the wrong racket. I should be tracking rubber duckies around the world's seas.

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On Global Warming

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Whether ardent carbon restrictionist or adamant denier, whatever your stance, surely, you must find today's Get Fuzzy hilarious

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My in-laws might appreciate this

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Star Trek weekend at National Review Online.

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